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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (4 children)

Reminds me of the artist formally known as Prince

[–] woobie@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

I did not know that (the label part)

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