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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 70 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Instead of renaming it to "X," Elon magically renamed his platform to "X, formerly known as Twitter."

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Reminds me of the artist formally known as Prince

[–] woobie@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The difference being that Prince did that change to screw his record label intentionally.

Other differences include the facts that Prince had talent, and that some people liked him.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I did not know that (the label part)

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