TechAltarWould be really embarassed right now if I had Dbrand as a sponsor. I get brands wanting to be edgy, but racist name jokes being your brand are a yikes
Khalid ⚡@Techaltar Woah… that’s not real, right? As someone who’s had there name made fun of, this is not cool.
Bright Circuit
@Jackha @Techaltar The “db” in Dbrand stands for douchebags.
@khalidabuhakmeh @Jackha now that's a name joke I can get behind!
Jessie Nabein 
millions 
@Techaltar oh god
@millions @Techaltar Oh… Oh my god… Oh god…
@yassie_j @Techaltar just saw some horrible takes on r/dbrand
@millions @Techaltar CONSUME PRODUCT
@yassie_j @Techaltar totally normal individuals on reddit
Arctic@yassie_j @millions @Techaltar I just found an article on it. When people got mad dbrand defended it by saying they gave a proper support response first. And the post is still up. Like holy fuck
@arctic there's was so far from a proper response, dbrand must have a really awful social media/brand management rep... imagine doubling down.
Azarilhⓥ
brands trying too hard to be edgy
noodlejetski 
@arctic @millions @yassie_j @Techaltar apparently they deleted it after MKBHD called them out
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127613/dbrand-racist-tweet-apology-mkbhd
> “Won’t be working with dbrand until that original tweet is deleted, at least,” Brownlee said. [...] Dbrand deleted the post hours later, acknowledging that it “created a platform for hateful discourse.” Brownlee [...] said it was “good to have you back” after the company deleted its post.
Syphist 
@Techaltar WTF, how did anyone think this was okay?
uwu1ba
Cysio 
@a1ba @Techaltar an edgy company selling skins/cases for smart devices
Advanced Persistent Teapot@Techaltar wow surely they can be sued for libel for this (and unlike in some cases, would fully deserve it)
Edit: probably not, as libel is something that causes -another person- to think less of the one who was libeled. But sure as hell there ought to be -some- kind of legal redress here
gregandcin 
@Techaltar They usually have better jokes than this without being racist (unintentionally or not)
Vishnu2jd@Techaltar Chitransh basically means artist in Sanskrit language.
nano's old account's rotting corpse@Techaltar this is seriously fucked up
Matti Redsky@Techaltar tweets that instantly destroy your entire business dot png
machete_Badger@MattiRedsky @Techaltar I really wish, unfortunately I imagine this is calling a certain demographic of theirs out of the bushes to cheer their behaviour on 
Clot@Techaltar Well the last four letters of their name stands for something else in my language, so they should the last one to talk
🦊⛩️稲荷大神の狐⛩️🦊@Techaltar Someone's getting fired.
Gerard@Techaltar but the joke is not racist, it's a joke about the name. It's not a good reply to the complain neither.
@Mai9 making fun of people's foreign names is racism 101. It's what every bully in school does to the foreign kid. Just take a look at the replies under the tweet, they are full of people dunking on the guy for being Indian (no idea if he is, but that's what they are going with).
@Techaltar ChatGPT says that "Making fun of someone's foreign name can be considered a form of racism or xenophobia", sooo, alright, but to my eyes, they're are just disrespectful. Thanks for the clarification.
EdenDestroyer@Techaltar *facepalm*