I thought it was stupid but not stupid enough to boycott
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IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Of course it was. It never made any sense to me that anyone would GAF.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes. It’s incredibly stupid. But I don’t see why anyone cares.
That said, I could absolutely believe that the rebranding was to deliberately destroy the brand, as part of some rich people destroy Toys R Us / Gamestop type of crap.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I could see that as it was such a stupid logo
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The thing is people were persuaded to GAF. We hear “driven by bots” and we think “oh so it was fake.” But bots are merely the PR mechanism of choice in 2025. In prior decades it might have been AM radio and a bunch of press releases faxed around or influence networks pumping the talk shows for airtime. But the game has always been the same. It’s only the tools that have changed.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Absolutely!
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yes, but that’s like saying cutting trees is the same game when it went from handsaws to today’s harvesters. Technically they do the same thing, but the scale and efficiency is a world apart.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh I completely agree. My point is that just because it was driven by bots doesn’t mean it was fake and therefore we can ignore it (I believe some people have that perception when they hear that some online uproar was driven by bots).