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What is wrong with people thinking the logo looks like underwear? I am willing to bet people are more likely to remember the logo and company. I remember when e
by rpedela 13y ago
What is wrong with people thinking the logo looks like underwear? I am willing to bet people are more likely to remember the logo and company. I remember when everyone was making fun of the name "Wii", but I would be surprised if that name, which generated free publicity, did not help Nintendo.
If the logo reminded people of genocide, okay change it. But underwear? Seems like a good thing to me since they might remember it better.
- pionar 13y agoAs they stated, they didn't want Twitter search results for their brand to be littered with underwear jokes.
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- TeMPOraL 13y agoProbably upper management without sense of humour.
- jakestein 13y agoI can verify this [1]. The management team does not have a sense of humor. [1] I am cofounder and COO
- TeMPOraL 13y agoSorry ;).
- lerchr 13y agoI bet the people here definitely don't appreciate funny names for internal projects either!
- jakestein 13y agoLerch! We still use Awesom-o and Butters every day
- moocowduckquack 13y agoJust to be sure that you are who you claim, can we quickly take a look at the colour of your pants?
- owenjones 13y agoIt's definitely this, they barely laugh at my Jurassic Park / Jeff Goldblum jokes anymore.
- ScottWhigham 13y agoValid question - "any press is good press" and all that. I think it makes sense to change it if 25% of users think that way but 2.6%? "Oh, how cute. Those Brits..." would've been just as valid of a response.
- alan_cx 13y agoFrom a UK perspective, the problem is that "pants" can be used to say something is rubbish, or similar. We might say "that new Yahoo Mail design is a load of pants". With the Wii example, there is not the same sort of common use in any country I know of. (Maybe there is, but I don't know) So, OK, it is amusing and probably memorable, but as I Brit I would have tell them that they don't want a bunch of Brits saying their product is a load of pants. So, anything else, and it might be slightly clever marketing, but in this specific, I'd put my sensible head on and say they should avoid it.
- kordless 13y agoAccording to his survey, 26 Brits said it. Hardly worth thinking about really.