The social media website often known as Fb will nonetheless use that title, however its mum or dad firm has a brand new model. On Thursday, Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced that his firm might be referred to as “Meta” to replicate the corporate’s give attention to constructing a bigger digital world past the Fb platform. The corporate additionally owns picture app Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp and extra.
With a platform as well-liked as Fb, an announcement this large could not go unmocked. The jokes flew even earlier than this week’s announcement, as we reported. However Zuckerberg’s announcement simply opened the door for extra commentary.
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Instantly after the title was introduced, the Twitter account for the reboot of the Animaniacs animated present picked up on it, quoting the road in its theme music that proclaims, “We did meta first.”
Actually? Meta?
Others imagined how the title alternative happened, or just marveled on the alternative.
“Sincere to god thought this was satire,” wrote one Twitter person. “Sincere to god. That is the type of pseudonym they provide tech corporations in Hallmark films as a result of it is so ridiculously faux.”
Sincere to god thought this was satire. Sincere to god. That is the type of pseudonym they provide tech corporations in Hallmark films as a result of it’s so ridiculously faux. https://t.co/AHgl3P04Bv
— Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) October 28, 2021
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha… *gasps for breath*
“…Meta?”
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) October 28, 2021
Fb: “Constructing the metaverse goes to take a stage of creativity we’ve by no means seen earlier than”
Additionally Fb: “Our new title is Meta”
— Inglourious Capital (@inglouriouscap) October 28, 2021
Overheard: However what’s the Meta for?
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 28, 2021
Acronyms and extra
“Meta” means “displaying or suggesting an express consciousness of itself or oneself as a member of its class : cleverly self-referential,” in line with Merriam-Webster. However some folks thought it could possibly be an acronym, corresponding to “Mark Evading True Accountability,” or “Mark Evading Tax Accountability.”
META: Mark Evading True Accountability
— Rick Horowitz (@Rick_Horowitz) October 28, 2021
Mark Evading Tax Accountability.
— Orc-Slaying Fort Architect KiwiCthulu™ (@kiwicthulu) October 28, 2021
the Meta-morphosis by Franz Kafka
— Alexandra PetriFYING!!! ooOOoo (@petridishes) October 28, 2021
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I Meta man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there once more right this moment
I want, I want he’d go away— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 28, 2021
Fb is the brand new RadioShack- bear in mind when it rebranded itself to shack!!! That labored out properly!!
— martin J mcmahon (@MartinJmcmah) October 28, 2021
Different title concepts
Some, in fact, thought there have been higher decisions on the market than Meta.
“Was low-key hoping for ebook face,” wrote one Twitter person.
“Suckerbook” can be fairly applicable as properly…..
— CÒѧËŔVÅŤÏ§M SŮX (@McDee85) October 28, 2021
😅Meta?
It ought to simply go all the best way and name it Narcissism.— Julie (@TruBluBrewCru) October 28, 2021
What’s in a reputation?
And other people continued to notice {that a} title change is probably not getting at Fb’s actual issues.
Wrote one individual, “Yeah positive, THIS was the problem with Fb.”
Yeah positive, THIS was the problem with Fb.
— PJ Courington (@PJCourington) October 28, 2021
The issue will not be what Fb known as.
The issue is what Fb/Meta is.— Mark Cheesman 🇬🇧🏴 🇪🇺 🏴☠️ (@stilton54) October 28, 2021
So…don’t repair the issues…simply change the title and transfer on?
— MM Wilson (@ememwilson123) October 28, 2021
Watch this:
Watch everything Zuckerberg announced at Facebook Connect…
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