It’s because of the capitalization. If the title was “SanDisk’s name is now mud” this wouldn’t happen.
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Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.
Omgarm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I was also very, very confused at first.
Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure that was the author’s intention.
Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Probably very deliberate, in the wake of Twitter’s disastrous rebranding.
find fringe idiom capitalise all words and… send
TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
Good thing it explains it in the second line of the article.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too
qaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought they were pulling a Facebook and rebranded themselves to avoid the bad press.
Casmael@geddit.social 1 year ago
Wait…. They’re not doing that? What?
platysalty@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean, after X it looks downright sensible.
Marsupial@quokk.au 1 year ago
It’s a more down to earth name at least.