The world is reacting to Elon Musk’s decision to rebrand Twitter by replacing the famous blue bird logo with an X.
It’s the culmination of Musk’s obsession with the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet which started in 1999 when he founded X.com, the precursor to PayPal.
The X.com domain now redirects to Twitter. Earlier this year it emerged that Twitter’s parent company had been renamed X Corporation.
The shift to the new logo started overnight: the website now displays an X but the mobile app still has the familiar blue bird… for now.
Just like the South Park episode “Simpsons Already Did It”, which pokes fun at how the show has covered almost every conceivable plot, Matt Groening’s show may have indeed predicted the change long before it happened.
In 2012, The Simpsons episode “Ned ‘n’ Edna’s Blend Agenda” aired, with the plot centred on Ned Flanders’s secret marriage to Edna Krabappel.
During one scene, Homer’s phone is shown with an app that looks suspiciously like the new X logo.
However, it’s not exactly the same, and there are some photoshopped versions bouncing around the internet, as fact-checker Snopes points out.
The show has famously predicted a number of events including the coronavirus pandemic and Donald Trump’s announcement that he would run for president in 2024.
