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SanDisk's Name is Now Mud (petapixel.com)
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[-] Erika2rsis 344 points 2 years ago

Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.

[-] platysalty@kbin.social 64 points 2 years ago

I mean, after X it looks downright sensible.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 24 points 2 years ago

It’s a more down to earth name at least.

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

It's because of the capitalization. If the title was "SanDisk's name is now mud" this wouldn't happen.

[-] limeaide@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I mean I get what you're saying, but a title is always capitalized, no?

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It wasn't always like that. A shift happened on the internet like 10 years ago I believe.

[-] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I thought so too. I always capitalized my post titles on the old site until someone said I’m a dumbass for doing that and that it’s annoying. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 2 years ago

I was also very, very confused at first.

[-] Erika2rsis 18 points 2 years ago

I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.

[-] CanniBallistic_Puppy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that was the author's intention.

[-] Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably very deliberate, in the wake of Twitter's disastrous rebranding.

find fringe idiom

capitalise all words

and… send

There. Easy clickbait.

[-] limeaide@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I think you're giving them way too much credit lol

[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Good thing it explains it in the second line of the article.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I thought they were pulling a Facebook and rebranded themselves to avoid the bad press.

[-] Casmael@geddit.social 1 points 2 years ago

Wait…. They’re not doing that? What?

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