Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you
Yay, sponsored emojis!
Submitted 9 hours ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 8 hours ago
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
teft@piefed.social 3 hours ago
That’s cooled it’s named after the Telstar satellite. There’s a high school in Maine that’s also named after the satellite.
hemmes@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
scutiger@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Sounds great - if I wasn’t already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁
Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don’t know a single person on whatsapp
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Same thing with Twitter and mastodon I guess.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I agree, but the other people all use it 🫠
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Couldn’t be me… but some people don’t care that Meta can read their messages. Or they still don’t know but I doubt it.
Mark Zuckerberg has a term for these people…
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
“dumbfucks”
-Markie Zuc
Mac@mander.xyz 4 hours ago
You genuinely don’t know? 😬
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 8 hours ago
Well there’s your problem. You’re using messenger and emojis.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I can’t find that shit on Signal 🤷♂️
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
davetortoise@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Ryzen logo
perishthethought@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
What is the point of these
GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.
islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
The shape allows the the tabs to push in slightly and snap into the 7”. I’ve heard them called ‘spiders’ :)
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Ah the joys of still using Meta shit products.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
whatsapp is unfortunely the lesser evil of propriatery IM when talking about usability, beyond that, the network effect in most kf the world make it the default
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Huh? What would be the bigger evil?
And re: network effect, I just told the people I wanted to chat with that I am going to use Signal and then uninstalled. Most followed, some didn’t. That’s just life, I guess.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
As someone that knows nothing about sports what an I even looking at here and why are people upset about it? All I see are balls and ball accessories.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
FIFA corruption soccer ball by Adidas
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The RGB one with the “snakes” on it?
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You got advertising in my data scraping app!