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Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”

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[–] merfolk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the expected move from the cesspool formerly knows as Twitter.

[–] Wondrous_Fairy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, totally not surprising in the least. Imagine if you'd built up a whole following around one handle and poof, it's just gone. I think Musk got threatened by how stupid Huffman was being with Reddit and decided that the only way to be more stupid was to relabel the already flailing company.

[–] jocanib@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not defending the thin-skinned rich kid but the tweeter formerly known as @X didn't lose anything apart from the name. Anyone can change their @name on Twitter and keep the rest of the account intact. Twitter changed his @name so that they could change their @name. Nothing else changed on either account.

[–] Wondrous_Fairy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're not trying to belittle the fact that this guy has spent time with his X brand for a long time and now Musk is just stealing it because he feels like it? I mean, for someone who's not defending the rich, you sure do put up a valiant effort. If anything, I hope someone's trademarked X before Musk so they can sue him into oblivion for it and give him a taste of his own asshole medicine.

[–] jocanib@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is this thing called context. And you forgot all about it.

[–] Wondrous_Fairy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, the context to me is quite clear. You're attempting to assauge critique via deflection. It's like saying you shouldn't be upset that someone took a shit in your house, because at least they had the good sense to leave afterwards instead of tracking it all over your carpet. I'm not buying it and nobody else is either. Give it up already.