The social media web site often known as Fb will nonetheless use that title, however its mother or father firm has a brand new model. On Thursday, Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced that his firm might be known as “Meta” to mirror the corporate’s give attention to constructing a bigger digital world past the Fb platform. The corporate additionally owns photograph app Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp and extra.
With a platform as widespread as Fb, an announcement this large could not go unmocked. The jokes flew even earlier than this week’s announcement, as we reported. However Zuckerberg’s announcement simply opened the door for extra commentary.
Animaniacs
Instantly after the title was introduced, the Twitter account for the reboot of the Animaniacs animated present picked up on it, quoting the road in its theme track that proclaims, “We did meta first.”
Actually? Meta?
Others imagined how the title selection happened, or just marveled on the selection.
“Sincere to god thought this was satire,” wrote one Twitter person. “Sincere to god. That is the sort of pseudonym they provide tech firms in Hallmark films as a result of it is so ridiculously pretend.”
Sincere to god thought this was satire. Sincere to god. That is the sort of pseudonym they provide tech firms in Hallmark films as a result of it’s so ridiculously pretend. https://t.co/AHgl3P04Bv
– Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) October 28, 2021
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha… *gasps for breath*
“…Meta?”
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) October 28, 2021
Fb: “Constructing the metaverse goes to take a degree of creativity we’ve by no means seen earlier than”
Additionally Fb: “Our new title is Meta”
— Inglourious Capital (@inglouriouscap) October 28, 2021
Overheard: However what’s the Meta for?
– George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 28, 2021
Acronyms and extra
“Meta” means “exhibiting or suggesting an express consciousness of itself or oneself as a member of its class : cleverly self-referential,” in line with Merriam-Webster. However some individuals thought it may very well be an acronym, similar to “Mark Evading True Accountability,” or “Mark Evading Tax Accountability.”
META: Mark Evading True Accountability
— Rick Horowitz (@Rick_Horowitz) October 28, 2021
Mark Evading Tax Accountability.
— Orc-Slaying Fort Architect KiwiCthulu™ (@kiwicthulu) October 28, 2021
the Meta-morphosis by Franz Kafka
— Alexandra PetriFYING!!! ooOOoo (@petridishes) October 28, 2021
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I Meta man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there once more right now
I want, I want he’d go away– Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 28, 2021
Fb is the brand new RadioShack- keep in mind when it rebranded itself to shack!!! That labored out properly!!
— martin J mcmahon (@MartinJmcmah) October 28, 2021
Different title concepts
Some, after all, thought there have been higher selections on the market than Meta.
“Was low-key hoping for guide face,” wrote one Twitter person.
“Suckerbook” can be fairly applicable as properly…..
— CÒѧËŔVÅŤÏ§M SŮX (@McDee85) October 28, 2021
😅Meta?
It ought to simply go all the best way and name it Narcissism.– Julie (@TruBluBrewCru) October 28, 2021
What’s in a reputation?
And other people continued to notice {that a} title change is probably not getting at Fb’s actual issues.
Wrote one particular person, “Yeah certain, THIS was the difficulty with Fb.”
Yeah certain, THIS was the difficulty with Fb.
— PJ Courington (@PJCourington) October 28, 2021
The issue shouldn’t be what Fb is named.
The issue is what Fb/Meta is.— Mark Cheesman 🇬🇧🏴 🇪🇺 🏴☠️ (@stilton54) October 28, 2021
So…don’t repair the issues…simply change the title and transfer on?
— MM Wilson (@ememwilson123) October 28, 2021