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April 15, 2025 6:32 AM Subscribe
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? If you ever thought that AI company logos look like buttholes, you're not alone.
Vonnegut was prescient, as usual.
On a related note, if Tesla is a techbro product, why does the logo look like a uterus?
posted by MtDewd at 6:42 AM on April 15 [10 favorites]
On a related note, if Tesla is a techbro product, why does the logo look like a uterus?
posted by MtDewd at 6:42 AM on April 15 [10 favorites]
arseking the important questions
posted by lalochezia at 6:44 AM on April 15 [4 favorites]
posted by lalochezia at 6:44 AM on April 15 [4 favorites]
I am hoping the explanation is that graphic artists hired to make these logos have made a pact of some kind.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:54 AM on April 15 [12 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:54 AM on April 15 [12 favorites]
If your butthole looks like the Copilot logo, you should probably see a doctor.
Why not ask the AI for medical advice instead?
posted by mhoye at 6:55 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
Why not ask the AI for medical advice instead?
posted by mhoye at 6:55 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
In many ways, goatse set the tone for what the World Wide Web would come to be for all time.
posted by wabbittwax at 6:55 AM on April 15 [16 favorites]
posted by wabbittwax at 6:55 AM on April 15 [16 favorites]
If your butthole looks like the Copilot logo, you should probably see a doctor.
Yes, you might have a rare case of conjoined buttholes.
posted by bluefrog at 7:02 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
Yes, you might have a rare case of conjoined buttholes.
posted by bluefrog at 7:02 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
Yet another example of the superiority of Chinese machine learning 🐋
posted by Ryvar at 7:06 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
posted by Ryvar at 7:06 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
This gives Tom Cardy's banger a bit of a new angle. (NSFW NSFW not even slightly safe for work)
posted by humbug at 7:06 AM on April 15 [7 favorites]
posted by humbug at 7:06 AM on April 15 [7 favorites]
Well, I wasn't wondering but now that lives rent-free in my head.
Could be worse - could be RFKJr's Brain Worm.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 7:11 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
Could be worse - could be RFKJr's Brain Worm.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 7:11 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
if Tesla is a techbro product, why does the logo look like a uterus?
It actually looks like an IUD, and that's a great idea for anyone dating these nihilists
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:12 AM on April 15 [23 favorites]
It actually looks like an IUD, and that's a great idea for anyone dating these nihilists
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:12 AM on April 15 [23 favorites]
Because if your logo isn't circular, it's going to look terrible when a mobile platform up and decides without warning to put all your icons in a clipped circle, as Android did a few years ago. It's really just that.
A very small number of companies have a tremendous amount of control over the aesthetics and vocabulary that you encounter every day. Consider who decides what emojis are available on your phone. (If you think that's not a big deal, remember that discord almost entirely exists, in an economic sense, because people wanted to be able to choose their own emoji.) Try switching to a different mobile keyboard for a week and see how it effects your texting.
posted by phooky at 7:12 AM on April 15 [12 favorites]
A very small number of companies have a tremendous amount of control over the aesthetics and vocabulary that you encounter every day. Consider who decides what emojis are available on your phone. (If you think that's not a big deal, remember that discord almost entirely exists, in an economic sense, because people wanted to be able to choose their own emoji.) Try switching to a different mobile keyboard for a week and see how it effects your texting.
posted by phooky at 7:12 AM on April 15 [12 favorites]
wabbittwax: "In many ways, goatse set the tone for what the World Wide Web would come to be for all time."
If there's no ring on that finger it's Just Sparkling Butthole.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:19 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
If there's no ring on that finger it's Just Sparkling Butthole.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 7:19 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
I am not sure if y'all have spent too much or too little time looking at buttholes.
posted by srboisvert at 7:22 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
posted by srboisvert at 7:22 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
It's because pets start to look like their owners.
posted by JohnFromGR at 7:24 AM on April 15 [17 favorites]
posted by JohnFromGR at 7:24 AM on April 15 [17 favorites]
I reject this conclusion until a full survey of butthole logos can prove novel correlation.
posted by varion at 7:26 AM on April 15
posted by varion at 7:26 AM on April 15
Came here thinking this was going to be about Maynard's butthole.
posted by Justin Case at 7:30 AM on April 15
posted by Justin Case at 7:30 AM on April 15
It's obviously intended, in most cases, to suggest an eye: "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
posted by SPrintF at 7:49 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
posted by SPrintF at 7:49 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
Zune logo, when flipped, says something different. Maybe that's one of the reasons why iPod won?
Because we'd rather be doPi?
posted by chavenet at 7:50 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
Because we'd rather be doPi?
posted by chavenet at 7:50 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
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posted by Paul Slade at 8:12 AM on April 15
posted by Paul Slade at 8:12 AM on April 15
Look at what they produce. What else produces that kind of shit?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 8:26 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 8:26 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
“We’re pushing out a steamin’ hot new product for you to consume.”
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:31 AM on April 15 [4 favorites]
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:31 AM on April 15 [4 favorites]
Maybe they all asked their AI to design the logo for them and this is evidence that AI has achieved self awareness -- they are just asking AITA?
posted by fimbulvetr at 8:33 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
posted by fimbulvetr at 8:33 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
I was a Mac person, even professionally (advertising) for 20+ years, and a Mac person before that. I have to use Windows now at my nonprofit job. I've gotten (mostly) used to it, and I find the bickering over which is "better" to be pretty silly. It's what you get used to.
But answer this: Three applications I use very often at work: Outlook, Teams and Word. Their icons in the task bar are so goddamned similar that every day I get mildly tripped up on which is which. To some extent, the Microsoft Edge web browser icon is pretty similar, too (but I doin't use that a lot).
Can someone go tell Microsoft to make some different looking icons for the applications, please?
posted by SoberHighland at 8:34 AM on April 15 [5 favorites]
But answer this: Three applications I use very often at work: Outlook, Teams and Word. Their icons in the task bar are so goddamned similar that every day I get mildly tripped up on which is which. To some extent, the Microsoft Edge web browser icon is pretty similar, too (but I doin't use that a lot).
Can someone go tell Microsoft to make some different looking icons for the applications, please?
posted by SoberHighland at 8:34 AM on April 15 [5 favorites]
am I the only person who’s unclear on the role a “subtle gradient” is meant to play in making a circular shape look more buttholular?
perhaps I have spent too little time looking at buttholes
posted by cabbage raccoon at 8:50 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
perhaps I have spent too little time looking at buttholes
posted by cabbage raccoon at 8:50 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
> could be worse - could be rfk jr's brain worm.
people give rfk jr a lot of flak but i for one think it was very brave of him to eat that measles baby
posted by Sperry Topsider at 8:52 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
people give rfk jr a lot of flak but i for one think it was very brave of him to eat that measles baby
posted by Sperry Topsider at 8:52 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
Outlook, Teams and Word
You don't know what kind of relief I feel knowing I'm not the only one who does this.
posted by mittens at 9:05 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
You don't know what kind of relief I feel knowing I'm not the only one who does this.
posted by mittens at 9:05 AM on April 15 [3 favorites]
if Tesla is a techbro product, why does the logo look like a uterus?
Per William Gibson it looks like a “mall ninja punch knife” which has been stuck in my head for years.
posted by q*ben at 9:09 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
Per William Gibson it looks like a “mall ninja punch knife” which has been stuck in my head for years.
posted by q*ben at 9:09 AM on April 15 [8 favorites]
I am not sure if y'all have spent too much or too little time looking at buttholes.
Buttplating?
posted by Kabanos at 9:24 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
Buttplating?
posted by Kabanos at 9:24 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
"...while right angles introduce the precision and structure that technology demands."
The fact that there are exactly zero right angles in the logo leads me to conclude that they must have used ChatGPT to generate this very precise explanation.
posted by dsword at 9:31 AM on April 15
The fact that there are exactly zero right angles in the logo leads me to conclude that they must have used ChatGPT to generate this very precise explanation.
posted by dsword at 9:31 AM on April 15
I'm constantly clicking on the Edge icon in the Dock when I really want VS Code and vice versa. At least other MS products use different colors.
posted by tommasz at 10:06 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
posted by tommasz at 10:06 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
"I wonder what's inside your butthole,
Maybe there's images,
with 5 or 30 fingers.
Maybe there's intelligence,
I really really doubt it.
Tell me tell me please.
I really wanna know...
I wonder what's inside your butthole."
some kid or something (SLYT)
posted by symbioid at 10:09 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
Maybe there's images,
with 5 or 30 fingers.
Maybe there's intelligence,
I really really doubt it.
Tell me tell me please.
I really wanna know...
I wonder what's inside your butthole."
some kid or something (SLYT)
posted by symbioid at 10:09 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
a “mall ninja punch knife” which has been stuck in my head for years
Wow, I'm not a doctor, but you should really have that looked at!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 10:23 AM on April 15 [7 favorites]
Wow, I'm not a doctor, but you should really have that looked at!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 10:23 AM on April 15 [7 favorites]
Gonna get a tramp-stamp tattoo...
"My butthole is smarter than your AI"
posted by symbioid at 10:25 AM on April 15
"My butthole is smarter than your AI"
posted by symbioid at 10:25 AM on April 15
one time I was reading a description of a laparoscopic surgery and it said the incision was "the size of a button hole" but I misread it as "the size of a butt hole" and I was might perplexed. why?? WHY??????
posted by supermedusa at 11:54 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 11:54 AM on April 15 [2 favorites]
Tesla logo is actually a cat nose, which is only good thing about it.
posted by supermedusa at 11:59 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
posted by supermedusa at 11:59 AM on April 15 [1 favorite]
I remember when Back Orifice came out, butt I've never understood why security researchers abandoned the anal naming convention for botnets etc.
Amsuingly, if you google tub girl, then find many sellers obviously capitalizing upon the search traffic, and then you hit r/nosleep
posted by jeffburdges at 12:35 PM on April 15
Amsuingly, if you google tub girl, then find many sellers obviously capitalizing upon the search traffic, and then you hit r/nosleep
posted by jeffburdges at 12:35 PM on April 15
"Embrace meaningful abstraction - Slack's hashtag-inspired logo communicates collaboration without circular clichés"
yes but it also had a bunch of people saying "this kinda looks like a swastika" when they redesigned it
posted by egypturnash at 5:48 PM on April 15 [1 favorite]
yes but it also had a bunch of people saying "this kinda looks like a swastika" when they redesigned it
posted by egypturnash at 5:48 PM on April 15 [1 favorite]
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posted by clavdivs at 6:37 PM on April 15 [4 favorites]
posted by clavdivs at 6:37 PM on April 15 [4 favorites]
Are they buttholes? Or are people just looking for buttholes?
(Late arrival. Apologies if redundant or lame)
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 12:46 AM on April 16
(Late arrival. Apologies if redundant or lame)
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 12:46 AM on April 16
> Gibson
the buttholes are already here - they're just not evenly distributed
posted by are-coral-made at 2:16 AM on April 16 [2 favorites]
the buttholes are already here - they're just not evenly distributed
posted by are-coral-made at 2:16 AM on April 16 [2 favorites]
they're just not evenly distributed
A cnidarian would say that.
posted by mittens at 3:32 AM on April 16 [2 favorites]
A cnidarian would say that.
posted by mittens at 3:32 AM on April 16 [2 favorites]
Are they buttholes? Or are people just looking for buttholes?
These are not mutually exclusive!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 5:28 AM on April 16 [1 favorite]
These are not mutually exclusive!
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 5:28 AM on April 16 [1 favorite]
> people give rfk jr a lot of flak but i for one think it was very brave of him to eat that measles baby
Really? Cos that baby could hardly fight back. Let’s see that sumbitch eat a measles badger.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 6:32 AM on April 16
Really? Cos that baby could hardly fight back. Let’s see that sumbitch eat a measles badger.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 6:32 AM on April 16
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