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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 hours agoIt makes perfect sense. Names are incredibly important to widespread adoption. As are pleasing colors.
Many people don’t know what a Stoat is, or that it’s an animal. A meaningless nonsense word (In the mind of a normie) will not drive them to use it.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
So your argument is that people are stupid so they should change the name. That’s not very compelling imo.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It’s not a question of intelligence, it’s a question of recognition and partiality.
That explains why nobody has consulted you before launching a brand.
On the contrary, most successful tech names are very recognizable and attractive to the average person, and the ones that weren’t were less likely to succeed. Facebook, Twitter, InstaGram, Windows, Apple, Amazon, all are very recognizable words or portmanteaus of descriptive words that are attractive to average users and are meant to convey a specific emotion or feeling. Meanwhile it’s been years since Twitter changed its name to X and yet nobody calls it that, and everybody still calls posts on that platform “Tweets”.
Like, this billion dollar industry doesn’t cease to be so because you personally don’t find it compelling lol.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
It is a question of intelligence if you’ve never heard of a fucking stoat before.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
It is not. Stoats are not a very commonly talked about animal species. Their name isn’t even consistent across regions.
I had to look up what a Stoat even was because I only know them as Ermine, and in North America it’s called a short tailed Weasel.