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Jen SorensenI drew this 22 years ago when the letter "X" was getting commercially played out.
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@jensorensen "X-treeem"
Brunold
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lucie digitální@jensorensen you predicted Q-Anon?
@luciedigitalni Hmm, now that you mention it...
signaleleven@jensorensen @luciedigitalni and Z for the Russian invasion! Prescient!
ArneBab@luciedigitalni and special operation / war Z … @jensorensen
Rod Van Meter@jensorensen as a quantum person, it feels like we ought to be over Q already, but I fear we are just getting started...
Cassandra is only carbon now@rdviii @jensorensen So many Qs, more and more Qs every time I look...!
Red Shirt Dude@jensorensen I suppose you want x-tra credit? 😜
Gorgeous na Shock!@jensorensen I read this and thought it was 20 years out of date. Just take this pertinent example from the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
But if you wrote it in 2000 then it turns out it was a timely contemporary observation! Except the next letter turned out to be "i". 😩
Paul Cantrell@jensorensen @dtgeek
Heh, it was just about 22 years ago when I burned a bunch of a VP’s patience convincing him that naming a product “XploreRadio” was corny, not cool. He came back and proudly announced to me that my argument had won the day with the executive team, and the name would instead be…“eXploreRadio!” Wasn’t that great??
My poker face skills were severely tested.
James M.@jensorensen I remember that! X everything. Especially "X-treme!"
Yora@jamesmarshall @jensorensen At least here in Germany, we also had Everything 2000 in the 90s.
Daniel Tuttle 🌵🤘@jensorensen he's been sitting on the X idea since the 90s, so this 100% checks out.
Voline@jensorensen Are you saying Libertarian billionaires are not the arbiters of cool?
@Voline That is exactly what I am saying.
E.G. Phillips@jensorensen At this point it's retro
Vincarsi@jensorensen they were wrong, it's "E" that's the big one now. "E-Sports, "E-cars"
Ben Finch@Vincarsi @jensorensen with i in between!
Hunter Perrin
Jay@Vincarsi @jensorensen Apple went with i. Now we just need someone to pick o and we can E-I-E-I-O all the way to old MacDonald's farm.
Laurie Starry@jensorensen hahaha turns out the next letter was actually “i” but then Z and Q did find their place didn’t they? HOW did you know??? 🤪
@Lauriestarry @jensorensen came here to say this 😉
@jensorensen I wonder whether 2k games will litigate for the use of the trademark XCOM / X-COM (which was first published 4 years before Musk created his X.com).
Daedalean
Avocado Toast@jensorensen turned out "i" was actually next
Marta(trama)@Martatrama Ha, that's pretty funny!
Androcat@jensorensen
That was frighteningly accurate.
That was frighteningly accurate.
Ali Alkhatib@jensorensen @Wolven i feel like we're constantly getting more evidence that he suffered some kind of severe head trauma in the early 2000s that froze his sense of humor and general aesthetic at the moment before the accident.
beemoh@jensorensen I do recall a British media company at one point owning newspaper "The Daily Express" (which I get is a tenuous one), smut channel "Television X" and eSports TV channel/league "XLeague" and me pointing out it exhibited a lack of imagination in among their products.
Jens Thorsgaard@jensorensen and then there is the letter "I"... iPhone, Imax, iD... etc.
Séan Billings@jensorensen 22 years ago? That was around the time Apple released to iPod, right?
BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺@jensorensen Posting these gentlemen everywhere today.
Ben ToddOh no. He's going to open X.com with a pun about it having the X-Factor. He's repeating the "let that sink in" pun that started his Twitter reign and that failed so terribly!
ArotriosThat's eerie. Q was next...
@jensorensen When that happend I was already burnt by the X-Men publishing policy.
📎🖐️ Alan Taylor 🎬 📚From Musk to Mux
Dan B.@jensorensen That is an xcellent take.
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@jensorensen About what I'd expect from a member of Gen X.
@jensorensen > I disagree, Q is next!
Oh dear Neptune…
Oh dear Neptune…
🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥@jensorensen
🥥 Doggone it Jen, you were the greatest even then.
And I LOVE your pointy-headed stuffed shirts and bad bosses. 🥥
🥥 Doggone it Jen, you were the greatest even then.
And I LOVE your pointy-headed stuffed shirts and bad bosses. 🥥
Anglophyl@jensorensen OMG, right? I was dating a dude at the time and one of our inside jokes was "EXTREME with an 'x.'" As in, the X-Games or X Files or what have you.
So played out.
Ruby S.@jensorensen OMG, too real!
uschaefer@jensorensen you aren‘t saying X is somewhat - hm - out of fashion? 😉
KeithC@jensorensen "e" and "i" are vying for the lead
Marco@jensorensen "What once was a symbol of subversion has been thoroughly assimilated by the mass market." 👨🍳 💋
Amethyst Basilisk@jensorensen Funnily enough that's when Emerald Boy first had the idea for xcom and is about the time when he registered it.
Marshall Eubanks@jensorensen Maybe this is just to ease us into Q.
PhilYou can’t blame the man. He’s been paying $25 a year for nearly a quarter century to hang on to the X.com domain name.
You gotta recoup your sunk costs somehow.
Francisca Staines@jensorensen A prophet ahead of her time 😉
David is nasty, again, aparently 
@jensorensen You were very close on this too. There is a Wakino advertising company in Japan.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2018/jul/30/the-absolute-pits-how-underarms-became-the-new-frontier-of-advertising.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2018/jul/30/the-absolute-pits-how-underarms-became-the-new-frontier-of-advertising.
PirateJoie@jensorensen prescient! 😆