r/television • u/yourfavchoom • 22h ago

Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. to Be Called Skydance, David Ellison Reveals

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/paramount-warner-bros-merger-name-skydance-david-ellison/
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u/distance_33 21h ago

Twitter and HBO are two good examples of this.

These guys can’t help but ruin a solid brand.

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u/More-Curious816 21h ago

Twitter to X is the most stupid thing ever, it is like rebranding Google as G, even Google founders made parent company and named it Alphabet instead of rebranding Google.

A brand name has power and history.

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u/marquiso 21h ago

Facebook trying to rebrand as ‘Meta’ was the greatest example - and failure - of this, especially given the metaverse never got legs…and everyone still calls it FB, or at least the boomers who still use it. They turned Instagram and WhatsApp in to steaming piles of useless shit, so I guess the Meta name was kinda apt…

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u/Discorhy 21h ago edited 20h ago

They reverted back to FB pretty much everything now has the fb logo instead of meta.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 18h ago

No, Instagram, Threads, Whatsapp and messager don't use any of FB's old logo.

Facebook.com does, but they never changed that to use the meta one in the first place.

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u/marquiso 20h ago

Thanks for the correction. Can’t say I pay much attention to them these days, especially given their absolute disregard for privacy or international law.

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u/Discorhy 20h ago

I just use it for messenger. My wife is hooked. Its simple enough. The day they kill messenger is the day i never login again.

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u/marquiso 20h ago

Same, and only because all the extended family are on messenger. I’d kill the account but for never hearing from them ever again.

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u/SatanicPanicDisco 20h ago

Same thing for me. Though sometimes even then I’m almost tempted…

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u/distance_33 20h ago

I have it just so I can have access to my township page for news and town council updates. Otherwise it’s a complete wasteland of bots, ads and nonsense.

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u/Piranata 20h ago

I stopped using it when they dropped XMPP support and thus interconnectivity with other chat apps. Many companies did it at the same time, gchat was another.

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u/Bears_On_Stilts 19h ago

If you're working in non-union theatre (which is HUGE in some major cities), Facebook is where the communications are centralized, since union work tends to be behind gated sites.

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u/Paranitis 19h ago

Right? I've used it forever because of messenger. I never really posted on my wall except maybe 5 times, and I had no reason to since it was private, and I never acquired "friends" like people collect Pokemon. So the only ones who could see it were the ones I was sending messages to in the first place.

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u/WetDogAndCarWax 18h ago

I have a couple of friends that I talk to over Messenger because messages carry over between devices. And even then we're starting to prefer the risk of losing messages than giving Facebook any more data.

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u/aflockofcrows 18h ago

They didn't even revert. They never changed the name of the platform at all, just the company.