When you're worth $239 billions but you choose the local crack head to make your new signage

It's also seizure-inducing

https://twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1685339679032287233/

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Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can't imagine they wouldn't get forced to take it down.

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- I guess all he does is baiting headlines
  
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Jesus fucking christ, how is that still standing

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- It's being held up by sandbags and he's not letting inspectors in to check it out.
  
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Fuck all their neighbors, I guess

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Is that on purpose or is the thing so badly made that it's blinking like that?

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Bad Chicken! Mess you up!!

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- That's not good for business.
  
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Wow. I'm not particularly sensitive, but that seems like the right amount of very bright strobe that gives me headaches in concerts, especially at night in the dark. That's very much the level of trying to find out a way to get to the roof to unplug it.

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That has got to be a joke. How come by now nobody shot it down?

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- I'm hoping you mean the city shooting it down, as in saying nope to it lol. Any responsible gun owner would ideally realize how terrible of an idea it would be to pop rounds at it, in a city center, with buildings behind it, knowing a good percentage of those shots will miss and go flying beyond it.
  
  Odds are, the city will have something to say about it, and knowing Elon, he didn't pull a permit so it's a matter of time. That thing is an eye sore and a hazard.
  
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- Purely because it's in CA. Even if you can get your hands on a gun you've only got 5 shots before you have to reload.
  
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Seriously? It's the actual sign?

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It is. And it was done without a permit, so the city might fine him over it too. https://apnews.com/article/twitter-san-francisco-building-x-elon-musk-4e0ae2a3b1b838b744bb2dc494f5b23c

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- For once I hope the fine is not based on revenue
  
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- Who cares? He won’t pay it just like he doesn’t pay the rent lol
  
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- A fine for the billionaire rich is meaningless in most cases :/
  
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Seriously?

A perfect summary of the public’s reaction to the entire rebrand.

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And is that a CCTV camera on the right?

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- The camera is actualy a part of the logo.
  
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- Might be a light sensor, too blurry to really tell
  
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- At first, I just assumed it was a bird, but I think you’re right (or closer, at least). Maybe it’s some kind of antenna.
  
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Well that looks like shit.

It's perfect.

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This has gotten WAY out of hand.

A bad idea is one thing. They happen all the time. Many executives would sell their souls for the kind of recognition that the blue bird had, but I suppose a good marketing team could have pulled off a successful rebranding.

This whole “x” fiasco, however, is a series of bad ideas done hastily, sloppily, and with little to no planning. It’s completely unjustifiable, from any perspective - unless you’re Elon, apparently.

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All those blue bird icons on millions of sites. Good luck getting those to change to x. Of all the dumb moves Musk has made, this ranks as the second dumbest. Of course, the dumbest move was paying 44 billion dollars for a site that realistically was worth 5-10 billion, and that was before that knucklefuck took over and ran it straight into the ground.

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- Yeah. The more I think about it, the worse it is. Lately, I’ve been wondering how many businesses have professionally printed “Follow us on Twitter!” stickers in their windows and signs by their cash registers. Your local pizza place probably does. That kind of visibility and awareness is priceless.
  
  Is Elon going to ship tens of thousands of replacement signs? No. Are business owners going to pay to replace them themselves? Some, maybe, but even then it won’t be a major priority. Hell, I didn’t take one elective class in marketing, and even I have a better understanding of the value he’s throwing away.
  
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I mean all I have heard for days now is about this X thing. He memed it into existence and now it's incredibly recognizable and talked about non-stop. God he's such an ass.

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Just one of the many signs this was a rushed decision he forced through without consulting anyone

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It's amazing how countless people have labeled Elon a shit-posting edgelord, and yet, he keeps trying so damn hard to tell the world what we all already know.

We get it, dude. Now shut the fuck up and do a days worth of work for once in your life. I think we're all quite tired of billionaire's at this point.

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Not gonna lie, Musk's X on top of building gives me the feeling of this.

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I'd surely be walking into the building every morning with a paper bag over my head if I were somebody who was still stuck working there.

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I have to imagine the only people who are still working there are just trying to stay in America.

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- This. Many of the people who still work there have no other choice. Their citizenship is tied to their employer. I feel sympathy for them.
  
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he wants to be a Furher so badly

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He’s definitely one step furher.

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Just needs to add feet on to the X

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It look like vandalism, someone broke into the building at night to put on their crappy sign.

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This kind of describes what's actually happened.

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I mean someone who could do it professionally would probably professionally say no to such an illegal job

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I didn't realize he did it all himself.

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What in the actual fuck?

This is like a physical embodiment of Poe's law.

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just barons doing baron things.

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All the money in the world can’t buy taste

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FYI it's billion, not billions.

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Yeah the $ implies the word dollar, in this case becoming “239 billion dollars”

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as oppose to out of state crackheads? because, everyone knows, local is better

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Shop for crack head work locally, it's better for the economy.

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I thought it was a collapsed crane until I've seen the Lego holding it. Did a three year old build this? Those small bricks aren't meant for young children, they can inhale them.

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Dosen't look that bad for a temp fix, hahahaha

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Watch a video of it operating at night. Gaudy doesn't begin to describe it

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Maybe if they were trying to sell Erector Sets.

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For real, it's ugly and way too bright and fucking stupid but whoever had a week to create x-shaped disturbingly blinking sun did an okay job imo.

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Say Sikes right now Please

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Psych!

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This is the guy who started a car company, right? Just checking.

Edit: It looks like I'm cheering for him here, I'm not. I meant how can he run a car company and be so clumsy running Twitter/X?

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This is the guy who ~~started~~bought a car company, right? Just checking.

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Not really sure what the point of this is since the sign looks pretty amazing at night. Curious to see what all the expert sign makers in here would have done differently to make it better?

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...Are you serious?

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- What’s wrong with it?
  
  How would you have done it better?
  
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