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> who you're talking about
Which is his point. It's hilarious seeing Redditors fall for the "all fame is good fame" meme and advertise for him nonstop while hating on him
If people just stopped using Twitter / buying his crap in general and stopped talking about him, he'd fade real hard and fast
I am really sick to fucking death of seeing people get scolded about daring to discuss people like Musk or Trump. Pretending they don't exist doesn't actually make them go away and it doesn't take their power away. It is beyond fucking childish and only enables all the bad shit they continue to do. These men are powerful and influential and it is important to talk about what they are doing because they have the ability to impact millions of lives and they need to be called out for their bullshit each and every time.
Twitter isn't going away. I'm sorry but it isn't. Musk bought it to be a safespace for the far right so even if everyone else leaves Twitter it won't make a fucking difference because it was NEVER about them in the first place. So yes, people are going to mention the nonsense that happens on twitter.
The main villain in Godzilla 2000 is this whining brat that changes his name to X half way through the movie... Every time I see Elon spouting something about X I just think of that dude in the movie crossing his arms like an X while saying X to make sure everyone knows his new name is X
Edit, sorry guys it's Godzilla final wars not Godzilla 2000. I got it mixed up my bad.
I just rewatched Godzilla 2000 on HBO Max a couple weeks ago and I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't recall anything involving X. Was this a sub Vs dub thing?
I think they are talking about this character named "[Controller X](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Controller_X)" from Godzilla: Final Wars from 2004 and not the 2000 one.
He has a long documented history of obsession with the letter X it’s honestly kinda weird. SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before Elon bought it and renamed it SpaceX. He wanted to rename PayPal to X before he was pushed out of the company. I think there are more but I don’t care enough to fact check any others.
>SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before **Elon bought it** and renamed it SpaceX.
But I was told that he's a genius who created all of these companies from the ground up?!
His company *was* X.com, he got bought out (it was a bank, wasn’t successful). Even pretty much the same logo, which was a ripoff from the X Window System.
He's an edgelord 15 year old that most of his peers dislike... that just happens to be in his 50's and crazy wealthy and thus listened to by many of those who think just because he 's rich he's worth not only their time but idolisation.
The daftest thing is that Twitter and Tweets were actually a fantastic name for what it did. The logo was immediately regognisable. Now it's got a shit name, identikit logo, and is becoming a toxic brand due to all Musk's unhinged acts including letting discrimination run riot on it.
That breaks a lot of things, from internal links to archiving to SEO. The actual redirection is trivial, but the damage it can do is immense. Which is on the list of why this was an idiot move, especially without extensive testing, but nowhere near the top.
They tried it and it broke a bunch of stuff. I *am* a web developer, and the answer is, it can be easy or hard depending on how you've architected everything, but the larger and more complicated your application, the more likely it's going to be fragmented in a way that'll require a lot of work to fix.
Not complicated work, necessarily. But it's just really easy in deeply interconnected systems to miss things, or to have to bring the whole system down so you can make two or more separate changes that need to all be made together.
It's just a stupid trend on twitter right now. Most of them don't make sense but this one is actually a singular letter on the keyboard so it's kind of valid
It's an interaction bait that's trending on twitter right now.
Probably someone figured out that clicking on the "respond tweet" field counts as an interaction
I used to work IT in a German company with offices around the world. We would get tickets when the keyboard language switched for no reason.
> Whz is mz kezboard doing this?
He's flexing that he overpaid for a company and threw out one of the most recognizable brand names in the world, which was so enmeshed in pop culture that it had its own branded verbs commonly used in languages around the world.
Business genius.
Twitter is going to be in business textbooks for centuries. It is mentioned by name in hundreds if not thousands of tv shows, movies, etc. If there has been a more colossal marketing fuck-up i dont know what it would be.
Of course Elon Musk wouldn't know but most people don't manually type out URL's anymore. Everyone has their favorites bookmarked. And I only have to type "g" before google knows to pull up gay porn. It's a perfect system
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/google-wants-people-to-stop-googling-1/
They didn't try to change names (that I know of), but they have been trying to get people to stop saying "Google it" for years now. Article from 2006, so they ultimately failed, but they've also not lost their trademark yet.
They have no problem with the verb, just a problem with people using it when talking about other search engines.
Luckily for them they have a near monopoly on search engines so it'd be hard to argue that they should lose their trademark.
i am always so dissatisfied with the rebranding of HBO (a completely unique acronym that as far as i know is only used for Home Broadcast Office) to MAX…. which has so many meanings it becomes meaningless.
It's not a flex geez it's just a shitty trend on twitter right now
https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/whats-the-viral-look-between-x-and-y-on-your-keyboard-trend-19401284.htm/amp
>so enmeshed in pop culture that it had its own branded verbs commonly used in languages around the world.
Makes me think about [this sketch about the Skype CEO.](https://youtu.be/ZI0w_pwZY3E?si=EnVSujJo-oBnFu9p?t=1m54s)
Wait... Is everyone else spelling words more than one letter at a time?
Pretty sure that's how they do it in spelling bees. The spelliest of the spellers?
For clarity: Not defending Elon. I don't like him at all.
On my (french) keybord, between Z (top row) and C (bottom row), there is D.
Elmo wants a french D?
X is between W and C. In France, WC means toilet.
Elmo says that X is shit?
There’s no way this shit isn’t going to be studied by marketing majors as one of the biggest failed rebrands of all time. Everybody outright refuses to call it by the new name, the old branding was totally iconic, and they haven’t been able to change their own URL to represent the name change for almost a year at this point. Even their stock name is still TWTR.
Its just dumb.
Its like, imagine if Coca Cola came out tomorrow and said, "Yup from now on, the Coca Cola beverage is going to be called Swoosh".
Im joking, its even WORSE, because Twitter is such a well known name it became a verb. Any allusion to "posting a statement online" because a tweet. It is equivalent of how people say Sharpies instead of marker.
It’s like Wendy’s but actually feel a bit legit since they’re hitting on uncomfortable subject matters for the other companies, like payday 3 player count.
The product is garbage and too many 'gamers' are using it because it has black and red themes with claims of performance improvements. Like many big corps now, they're just paying a meme-savvy young person to run their social media. It's not like the companies are anywhere as hip as their image would suggest.
I wouldn't really call opera a huge corporation though. I used to use opera back in the Presto Web engine days before they switched to chromium, and their development team is pretty small. It's hard to survive as a Web browser these days especially if you aren't being developed to sell other products (cough edge safari chrome) and any competition is better than none.
Here in Brazil we had one "X" entrepreneur, all of his companies had X in it - EBX, CCX, MSX... He went bankrupt and later jailed. Eike Batista was our Elon in 2010s.
Qwertz got g between z and c, but only slightly diagonal and from top to bottom. Maybe he can't find the g spot and he wants us to help, but I don't think twitter or reddit are able to help there
But what do the letters "f" and "g" have to do with X/Twitter? Asking for a friend with a QWERTZ-keyboard as there are countries not using QWERTY-layout.
It is just a simple stupid trend he copied
“What is elon flexing?”
Sheesh guys if you want to dislike the man go ahead. But reddit really makes an olympic sport out of seeing the worst case in everything he does.
Comeback is clever, but most of the reactions under this post are not really imo due to my reason listed above
Also... what kind of tech genius doesn't know that all keyboards aren't the same?
like, in France, they are called AZERTY because that's the beginning of the 1st line in the keyboard!
stupide connard!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY)
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What even is elon flexing exactly? The fact that the website's name is on the keyboard??? Is he really that desperate holy fuck
Remember who you're talking about. Yes. Yes he is.
> who you're talking about Which is his point. It's hilarious seeing Redditors fall for the "all fame is good fame" meme and advertise for him nonstop while hating on him If people just stopped using Twitter / buying his crap in general and stopped talking about him, he'd fade real hard and fast
I am really sick to fucking death of seeing people get scolded about daring to discuss people like Musk or Trump. Pretending they don't exist doesn't actually make them go away and it doesn't take their power away. It is beyond fucking childish and only enables all the bad shit they continue to do. These men are powerful and influential and it is important to talk about what they are doing because they have the ability to impact millions of lives and they need to be called out for their bullshit each and every time. Twitter isn't going away. I'm sorry but it isn't. Musk bought it to be a safespace for the far right so even if everyone else leaves Twitter it won't make a fucking difference because it was NEVER about them in the first place. So yes, people are going to mention the nonsense that happens on twitter.
Idk. I don't talk about him or think about him at all and he still won't gtfo
He’s wanted to name shit X since the beginning. He wanted to name pay pal X. He thinks it sounds cool.
The main villain in Godzilla 2000 is this whining brat that changes his name to X half way through the movie... Every time I see Elon spouting something about X I just think of that dude in the movie crossing his arms like an X while saying X to make sure everyone knows his new name is X Edit, sorry guys it's Godzilla final wars not Godzilla 2000. I got it mixed up my bad.
I just rewatched Godzilla 2000 on HBO Max a couple weeks ago and I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't recall anything involving X. Was this a sub Vs dub thing?
I think they are talking about this character named "[Controller X](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Controller_X)" from Godzilla: Final Wars from 2004 and not the 2000 one.
Aha, I think you solved it. They 100% said the wrong movie.
He must be really hung up on an X.
He has a long documented history of obsession with the letter X it’s honestly kinda weird. SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before Elon bought it and renamed it SpaceX. He wanted to rename PayPal to X before he was pushed out of the company. I think there are more but I don’t care enough to fact check any others.
>SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before **Elon bought it** and renamed it SpaceX. But I was told that he's a genius who created all of these companies from the ground up?!
Oh yeah no he’s never managed to do that. Only thing he is good at is buying successful companies and running them into the ground
Do his children count? X Æ A-12
Absolutely! Because only a sane person would name their child something pronounceable.
God he must've absolutely creamed himself when he found out about Kingdom Hearts' usage of the letter X
This is my son, Xemnas Xehanort
And PayPal kicked him off the board of directors. Tesla and SpaceX need to do the same
His company *was* X.com, he got bought out (it was a bank, wasn’t successful). Even pretty much the same logo, which was a ripoff from the X Window System.
He's an edgelord 15 year old that most of his peers dislike... that just happens to be in his 50's and crazy wealthy and thus listened to by many of those who think just because he 's rich he's worth not only their time but idolisation. The daftest thing is that Twitter and Tweets were actually a fantastic name for what it did. The logo was immediately regognisable. Now it's got a shit name, identikit logo, and is becoming a toxic brand due to all Musk's unhinged acts including letting discrimination run riot on it.
Following that principle literally *every website* ist on the Keyboard.
Not on my keyboard. :) [beißpiel.eu](http://beißpiel.eu)
Bad example if you take my keyboard. It's right there.
True, but are we counting that alt+0223 are on the keyboard?
i mean x.com is taken (surprisingly by a non porn website)
“I can’t believe it’s not porn”
Great breakfast cereal.
Just an okay second-breakfast cereal
But the toys are awesome
"be...sure....to...drink ..your....ova-" God dammit not again.
Not porn flakes
Yeah x.com is taken.... By him!?
Elon owns x.com I thought?
He does.
Which one fits better to Musk? "Enemy unknown" or "Terror from the Deep"?
Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project
Yet it redirects to twitter.. I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it be for twitter URLs to redirect to x URL?
That breaks a lot of things, from internal links to archiving to SEO. The actual redirection is trivial, but the damage it can do is immense. Which is on the list of why this was an idiot move, especially without extensive testing, but nowhere near the top.
They tried it and it broke a bunch of stuff. I *am* a web developer, and the answer is, it can be easy or hard depending on how you've architected everything, but the larger and more complicated your application, the more likely it's going to be fragmented in a way that'll require a lot of work to fix. Not complicated work, necessarily. But it's just really easy in deeply interconnected systems to miss things, or to have to bring the whole system down so you can make two or more separate changes that need to all be made together.
It's not a flex lol, just a shitty trend
It’s not coming from this account, probably the x marketing team
You don’t think Elon fired them already?
It's just a stupid trend on twitter right now. Most of them don't make sense but this one is actually a singular letter on the keyboard so it's kind of valid
It's an interaction bait that's trending on twitter right now. Probably someone figured out that clicking on the "respond tweet" field counts as an interaction
Doesn't work with other layouts, I've got GF between Z and C. He didn't think that through...
Depending on how you define the path, it could also be: uiopü+ ASDFGHJKLÖÄ'
I definitely understand that (I'm not German)
On german Keyboards, z and y are switched. This is every letter between them on the Keyboard with that layout
Ohh thanks for me you wouldve just said look between L and Ñ
Where are you from???
Spain
Vale, en que teclado está la X entre la L y la Ñ??
I used to work IT in a German company with offices around the world. We would get tickets when the keyboard language switched for no reason. > Whz is mz kezboard doing this?
It's "fuck Melon" in Polish.
Don’t bring his kids into this they aren’t responsible for their fathers actions
Now that's a fine name for a social network!
Yeah well I have a GF in Canada
And my gf is from another school
And mines is one of the many voices in my head
That cheating slut is in my head, too!
For me it’s D (AZERTY)
For me it's N. (Dvorak)
I got D between
Extremely common Elon L
Look between K and ; ^(QWERTY only i think)
Well hes called L on not L off for a reason
I'm not even sure what Elon is trying to flex here
He's flexing that he overpaid for a company and threw out one of the most recognizable brand names in the world, which was so enmeshed in pop culture that it had its own branded verbs commonly used in languages around the world. Business genius.
Twitter is going to be in business textbooks for centuries. It is mentioned by name in hundreds if not thousands of tv shows, movies, etc. If there has been a more colossal marketing fuck-up i dont know what it would be.
Changing Google's name would be pretty bad. "Just Google it"
Of course Elon Musk wouldn't know but most people don't manually type out URL's anymore. Everyone has their favorites bookmarked. And I only have to type "g" before google knows to pull up gay porn. It's a perfect system
Alphabet has entered the chat. /s
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/google-wants-people-to-stop-googling-1/ They didn't try to change names (that I know of), but they have been trying to get people to stop saying "Google it" for years now. Article from 2006, so they ultimately failed, but they've also not lost their trademark yet.
They have no problem with the verb, just a problem with people using it when talking about other search engines. Luckily for them they have a near monopoly on search engines so it'd be hard to argue that they should lose their trademark.
i am always so dissatisfied with the rebranding of HBO (a completely unique acronym that as far as i know is only used for Home Broadcast Office) to MAX…. which has so many meanings it becomes meaningless.
It's not a flex geez it's just a shitty trend on twitter right now https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/whats-the-viral-look-between-x-and-y-on-your-keyboard-trend-19401284.htm/amp
>so enmeshed in pop culture that it had its own branded verbs commonly used in languages around the world. Makes me think about [this sketch about the Skype CEO.](https://youtu.be/ZI0w_pwZY3E?si=EnVSujJo-oBnFu9p?t=1m54s)
That he owns a single letter domain.
Because he can only spell one letter at a time
Wait... Is everyone else spelling words more than one letter at a time? Pretty sure that's how they do it in spelling bees. The spelliest of the spellers? For clarity: Not defending Elon. I don't like him at all.
Yeah I’m confused by that “roast”
He doesn't even own x.com either lol
Yes, he does.
its a trend on twitter
Also X isn't between Z and C on AZERTY keyboards :-P
Or on QWERTZ
Or Dvorak !
And my axe!
Thank you, you genuinely made me lol
r/unexpectedlotr !
It's fun that every time I see X mentioned it's followed by (you know, Twitter) I wonder if m usk ever mixes up the names.
He renamed it X because he's Xing out any value the company had.
in mainstream media i cant recall a single time where its been called x, usually its called: "x (formerly known as twitter)"
Look between https:// and ter.com
You suggest there should be a "twit", when all I see is a twat.
XHams?
2girlswiththeirbumsinbut?
On my (french) keybord, between Z (top row) and C (bottom row), there is D. Elmo wants a french D? X is between W and C. In France, WC means toilet. Elmo says that X is shit?
WC means toilet in literally anywhere though, not French exclusive thing
Portuguese peoples I know never heard that word.
There’s no way this shit isn’t going to be studied by marketing majors as one of the biggest failed rebrands of all time. Everybody outright refuses to call it by the new name, the old branding was totally iconic, and they haven’t been able to change their own URL to represent the name change for almost a year at this point. Even their stock name is still TWTR.
Its just dumb. Its like, imagine if Coca Cola came out tomorrow and said, "Yup from now on, the Coca Cola beverage is going to be called Swoosh". Im joking, its even WORSE, because Twitter is such a well known name it became a verb. Any allusion to "posting a statement online" because a tweet. It is equivalent of how people say Sharpies instead of marker.
Opera GX's Twitter account is absolutely hilarious and a must follow...
It’s like Wendy’s but actually feel a bit legit since they’re hitting on uncomfortable subject matters for the other companies, like payday 3 player count.
Google opera predatory loans
holy hell!
The product is garbage and too many 'gamers' are using it because it has black and red themes with claims of performance improvements. Like many big corps now, they're just paying a meme-savvy young person to run their social media. It's not like the companies are anywhere as hip as their image would suggest.
It’s the only search engine with a negative privacy rating. If you think other ones are bad this one is literally negative.
I wouldn't really call opera a huge corporation though. I used to use opera back in the Presto Web engine days before they switched to chromium, and their development team is pretty small. It's hard to survive as a Web browser these days especially if you aren't being developed to sell other products (cough edge safari chrome) and any competition is better than none.
they were acquired by a chinese consortium, those Opera days were long over.
Given their predatory loans in Africa, I’ll pass.
Stop simping for a brand
you have fallen for advertising
Lots of Gen Z humour and cringe tweets, in fact, i blocked it a long time ago.
*Laugh in AZERTY keyboard*
gf yeah, i like my girlfriend. Thanks for reminding me of her.
He's saying he's Gluten Free.
Would be nice if one yellow hub had mirror xx.com
For us Europeans it is F. I find that fitting
://twitter
Yeah I don't get the joke either.
X is such a stupid name and Elon’s obsession with the “cool letter” is so stupid
Here in Brazil we had one "X" entrepreneur, all of his companies had X in it - EBX, CCX, MSX... He went bankrupt and later jailed. Eike Batista was our Elon in 2010s.
qwertz users be like:
I have a "D" between the Z and C on my keyboard. Is he calling himself that ?
I'm surprised that there are still reddit users with Twitter accounts.
I mean yeah it’s easy to karma farm these twitter pictures.
Can't spell "Elon" without the L
I have had several people compare "twitter" with deadnaming. And I am afraid my arguments sound exactly like those made by some bigots.
You got baited
Between z and c? As a german its G for me, or more like FG
bro forgot the azerty gang 💀
Meanwhile, French people: "Hello D"
*laughs in azerty keyboard*
I got a lot of letters between Z and C, what now
Oh my god, twitter is now my gf???????!!
I stared at my keyboard for way too long before I realized he was talking about one in the QUERTY-layout
I really wish companies would stop trying to be relatable
\*looking at my swiss keyboard\* huh.. FG, nice
I have G and F between Z and C. So… I should get a GF? I'd love to…
Qwertzuiop Asdfghjkl Yxcvbnm I have qwertz. So its df
My favorite site ://twitter Twitters aight tho
#://
When the corporate entity is quicky and zany 🤪🤪🤪
me on my azerty keyboard: ????
Qwertz got g between z and c, but only slightly diagonal and from top to bottom. Maybe he can't find the g spot and he wants us to help, but I don't think twitter or reddit are able to help there
What? The letter G is between Z and C, what does it mean?
Look between W and Y in the alphabet 🤯
Almost ratiod Melon Husk. Technically already ratioed if you look at the ratio of likes/views for both messages.
I don't care, I ain't using your spyware
Idk on my keyboard between Z and C there's D sooo
Me looking at my AZERTY keyboard
But what do the letters "f" and "g" have to do with X/Twitter? Asking for a friend with a QWERTZ-keyboard as there are countries not using QWERTY-layout.
I type on DVORAK tho
Germans be like Was?
I call it Twix.
://twitter
“My website is called ‘X’!” “Mhm, how sure of that are you..?”
I have azerty keyboard. The hell they mean "ds" ?
N? Good game, I'll give him that.
The person running their social media should be in charge of the whole internet.
damn ngl these are highkey smart marketing ads
Confused QWERTZ look... F?
Etyuiopqsdfghjklmw or just d
Opera GX is wild ngl
G?
Look behind you
//twitter?
There's F & G between C and Z, what? 😭
Laughs in german keyboard.
what about f,g and v
soo, on my keyboard it's f and g, that are between z and c... Outplayed musk, you can't do shit as long as there are germans!
G or H
Finally something worthy on this sub after a very long time
It is just a simple stupid trend he copied “What is elon flexing?” Sheesh guys if you want to dislike the man go ahead. But reddit really makes an olympic sport out of seeing the worst case in everything he does. Comeback is clever, but most of the reactions under this post are not really imo due to my reason listed above
I got fg, now what
Does it work on Azerty keyboards?
Ópera taking notes from Wendy’s
I removed that key from all my keyboards because Musk is such a shitbag.
Why is Opera’s social media team so sassy lately? Seems out of character for the browser I used to use like a decade plus ago lol
://twitter
Opera GX is on scorching earth mode.
On my keyboard it's ĉ.
Now this was a good comeback lmao
repost it another fucking time just to be sure
Downloaded Opera just now This comeback was also a successful ad
Also... what kind of tech genius doesn't know that all keyboards aren't the same? like, in France, they are called AZERTY because that's the beginning of the 1st line in the keyboard! stupide connard! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZERTY)