Ed MarshallToday I saw someone refer to the X logo as a "sans-serif swastika", and now this is going to live in my head forever.
charles aylward@esm between that and the cybertruck getting tagged the "incel camino" the internet is really coming through...
Momo
Patrick O'Beirne@cda
Aka wankpanzer
Aka wankpanzer
sortius@PatrickOBeirne @cda see, I have a problem with it being called a wankpanzer.
It really should be Panzerwankwagen.
Incel camino is much better, though. I'd pay that
Toni Scott
your auntifa liza ๐ต๐ท ๐ฆ ๐ฆฆLET ME WELL, ACTUALLY Y'ALL on the incel camino vs. wankpanzer. had a poll that became a thread because the answers were all amazing.
enjoy!
@blogdiva
Great thread! .social wouldn't allow me to like the scholarly ones ๐ , it asked me to login first.
It looks like wankpanzer is of UK origin and Camino, I assume, is a truck in the US. Camino to me is a Spanish pilgrim trail.
Great thread! .social wouldn't allow me to like the scholarly ones ๐ , it asked me to login first.
It looks like wankpanzer is of UK origin and Camino, I assume, is a truck in the US. Camino to me is a Spanish pilgrim trail.
@blogdiva @ToniScott @PatrickOBeirne @cda my point was "wankpanzer" is grammatically incorrect, and just means "armour(ed) wank", as it comes from "Panzerkampfwagen" (armour fighting vehicle)
So, Panzerwankwagen, or even Panzerwankerwagen, would be much more appropriate
@sortius @blogdiva @ToniScott @cda
There's grammar, and there's the demotic appeal of the staccato dactyl, to quote from the thread ๐
There's grammar, and there's the demotic appeal of the staccato dactyl, to quote from the thread ๐
@PatrickOBeirne @blogdiva yeh, I'm not much for reading threads posted to me (I'm 100% against quote tweeting). The reality is, for many of us, "wankpanzer" lands bad.
There's no rhythmic advantage to "wankpanzer", IMO, its appeal is purely through ignorance of the root word.
The root word, when "kampf" is replaced with "wank" or "wanker" is much more amusing to me, especially when said with Germanic phonetics: Pan-zer-Vank-Vag-en, or Pan-zer-Vank-er-Vag-en. The latter being much more rhythmic
LOL @sortius @PatrickOBeirne "many". dude, tis the innanets. you're being a wank about panzers ๐ค
@blogdiva @PatrickOBeirne you're the one who messaged me with your quote tweeted poll, "well actuallying me".
Maybe take your idiotsplaining elsewhere
Cats Who Draw 
but that's a good thing 
Tim Ward โญ๐ช๐บ๐ถ #FBPE@esm Yeah, visual comparisons were doing the rounds at the time.
Alexander Knochel
John M. GambleThat's so good that I want it to have its own Wikipedia entry. Can we credit the person who created it originally?
Ulf Henrich 
@jgamble Oldest I could find:
https://lemmy.world/post/2089291
TFrom the comments you can definitely see they didn't get it lol
WhichOne'sPink ๐ซ๐ฎ@esm I thought this, but not in the same words. It's brilliant.
Martin Vermeer FCD@esm Golden. I got as far as 'swastika without the hooks at the ends', but this is a winner.
JanisI've always seen it a s a compensatory gesture in response to that chromosome configuration vacating the platform... a reconfig of the same crossed lines and chromosomes of the 4 and the 8 of the "chan" type.
Fake it 'till you make it?
wltzw ๐
@pineywoozle โs #3WordNote
sebsauvage
Ember's old account -> @
Sam at BLAG
Rob Ricci@esm wait until someone tells you that the Slack logo is a swastika made of dicks
Anders Gulden Olstad
Samhain Night@samhainnight @ricci @esm We need to avoid feeding the argument of right-wingers that we're making something of nothing. Yes, it's there, and it's 'turning' the Nazi direction. I really don't think, though, the designer had any intention of raising that image (it used to be a hashtag symbol). I'm also convinced there are people with focused intent to platform supremacy and/or raise ire on which we should focus.
Squares are just a PITA. They are.
@janisf @ricci @esm In my head, I imagine there was probably a high level exec who wanted a design, but didn't see the connotations, a designer who got the job but did, then tried to talk the dumb exec out of it, but they wouldn't budge, so the designer did the best they could to make it as unbad as they could.
I say this as an artist who has tried to talk people out of bad design decisions.
@samhainnight @ricci @esm What's more converning to me is the monopolistic trajectory of Microsoft. I literally cried when they bought Slack.
Slenderwoman
Pangoria Fallstar | DM VTUBER EN@esm someone mentioned that the KICK logo looks like three Ks and I also have had trouble unseeing that.
Prof Heino Falcke@esm That was my first reaction and the final drop that made me leave
Benjamin Balder Bach@esm if you reshuffle it a bit, you also get a swastika.. not that I think it's intentional, but I do find the logo has clear fascist aesthetics.
Not least, considering how it replaced a cute blue bird.
Hisham
Elon Muksis ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ ๐ช๐บ
Aviva Gary@esm They are wise
PeteI've never really liked harsh, angular symbols, flags, etc.
A Tattered Scrapbook@esm I think you have hit on why Musk loves the letter so muchโฆ
daggerfall@esm I'm not an expert on the topic but the symbol which you are referring to is "nazi Hakenkreuz".
Jack Yan (็็ตๆฉ)
Friedemann Wachsmuth
Low Rank Jack@esm
Well it seems that xAI logo got a bit more serif ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/XAI.svg/1280px-XAI.svg.png
@esm SANS SERIF SWASTIKA ๐คฃ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ as opposed to a slab serif of the OG. this is perfection. this is art.
Frank Heijkamp
Nadav๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐บ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ@esm
Only me thinking so naively about the X.org logo? ๐ค
Only me thinking so naively about the X.org logo? ๐ค
Cassandra is only carbon now@esm It's sad, that X was completely reasonable mathematical notation (even to the point its built in to many common fonts!) for decades before Musk appropriated it.