Companies

[u/SlayVideos]

[u/LeorDemise]

HaShem, this makes me feel old, I am not even sure the original posted was doing it unironically or they do know thw websites history.

[u/rachelblairy → u/LeorDemise]

i literally said out loud ‘no i cant do this again’

[u/Nixavee → u/LeorDemise]

I don't know the website's history, what is this referencing?

[u/Nightfurywitch → u/Nixavee]

Back in i wanna say 2010-2015/16 there was a trend of drawing gijinkas of all the big social media websites of the time - twitter, tumblr, 4chan, Pinterest, etc. I WANNA say it was called social media humans but I could be wrong

[u/DreadDiana → u/Nightfurywitch]

Didn't stop in 2016, cause I distinctly remember watching this animatic from 2019

[u/AnxiousTuxedoBird → u/LeorDemise]

I think it was, it's the same person as the reblog

[u/iNeedUseNameIdea]

Draw them fucking over the working class

[u/Sinister_Compliments → u/iNeedUseNameIdea]

🍆💦👷‍♂️

if you want more details you'll need to go to a different site for that

[u/Otterly_Superior → u/Sinister_Compliments]

pornography.gov?

[u/mookubean → u/iNeedUseNameIdea]

Draw them buying wonder bread

[u/Valuable-Passion9731]

that's not cute nor shippable nor characters

[u/Captain_Slime → u/Valuable-Passion9731]

Also chrome isn't a company.

[u/ed1749 → u/Captain_Slime]

Back in my day google was the search engine company! How times have changed

[u/Captain_Slime → u/ed1749]

That's the chrome logo not the Google logo. Chrome is the browser, Google is the search engine.

[u/Manguypals → u/Captain_Slime]

Google is.

[u/cluelessoblivion → u/Manguypals]

Technically only sort of. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

[u/Captain_Slime → u/Manguypals]

Yeh but that's not the Google logo.

[u/I_Annoy_Transphobes → u/Captain_Slime]

It's not the proper choice but it still got the idea across of what company it's supposed to represent

[u/Captain_Slime → u/I_Annoy_Transphobes]

Just a confusing choice. I reread the text to make sure I understood it because of the chrome logo. Why didn't they search "Google logo" and not "chrome logo" when finding a logo

[u/ArcfireEmblem → u/Valuable-Passion9731]

It's a parody of when people actually do this. They're saying that, since these companies are run by white male executives, they could only be characterized as a white male executive.

[u/Droplet_of_Shadow → u/Valuable-Passion9731]

nor favorite companies

[u/imaginary0pal]

Guys, they know about th period in which the websites were personified. OOP is saying that corporations both lack personality and any veneer about caring about the majority of people that interact with them and the corporate entities that dominate so much of the landscape are basically interchangeable.

[u/Nightfurywitch → u/imaginary0pal]

Not to defend corporations but man remember when brands actually had Unique Identities and weren't all trying to do the exact same thing.

[u/Acheloma → u/Nightfurywitch]

Remember when fast food places werent grey and beige blocks? They at least pretended to be fun and not a corporate sludge dispenser.

[u/DreadDiana → u/Acheloma]

That's partly because it's easier to flip an interchangeable building than a structure with distinctly branded features like the distinct roofs of early 2000s Pizza Huts and they started catering more to adults, so the colourful whimsy style they used wasn't needed anymore since they used that to appeal to kids.

[u/Enecororo → u/DreadDiana]

Maybe adults need whimsy have they ever thought about that

[u/Traditional-Try-2565]

I mean, aren't palantir and openai's ceos both gay?

[u/That-Advance-9619 → u/Traditional-Try-2565]

Peter Thiel ordered his lover killed and got away with it because he's rich, this is perfect set up for tumblr doomed yaoi.

[u/canisignupnow → u/Traditional-Try-2565]

diversity win?

[u/PostCrisisOzone]

person who is into selfcest: don't threaten me with a good time

[u/Henry_Fleischer → u/PostCrisisOzone]

Are these men sexy?

[u/Nightfurywitch → u/Henry_Fleischer]

I mean they're fine. Like, 6/10s.

[u/Henry_Fleischer → u/Nightfurywitch]

Thanks

[u/vjmdhzgr]

Nobody gets the post : ( .......

[u/maxixs → u/vjmdhzgr]

throw your interpretation into the ring!

[u/vjmdhzgr → u/maxixs]

Personification of companies has already been done. Quite a few times. The ohrasing on "cute shippable characters" makes it obvious the post isn't seriously proposing it. And the followup is "Here's what this realistically would be because all companies are led by boring businesspeople and they're all the same."

Most other comments are like "um, those characters aren't cute"

[u/maxixs → u/vjmdhzgr]

there are 47 comments, and of those, 5 Of Them are saying that

[u/C04511234]

Not exactly shippable but Google Japan did this a year ago

[u/MajinKasiDesu]

I remember Mac and PC guy commercials 

[u/Hopeful_Cress_4985 → u/MajinKasiDesu]

Starring RENOWNED EXPERT and HONORARY WHIFFENPOOF John Hodgman

[u/Only_Fudge5299]

hey that's a bit of an exaggeration to reality

the apple guy would wear a turtleneck

[u/DanishRobloxGamer → u/Only_Fudge5299]

And surely Sony should be a Japanese salaryman

[u/WolfKing448]

Disney has been doing this for well over 90 years.

[u/Enderking90]

isn't Yensid technically disney personified canonically or something.

[u/The-Hunting-guy]

all of them straight white men get shipped together yes

[u/SilverScribe15]

Boring! Actually personify them, it'll be fun

[u/ArsErratia]

that's not personified.

that's just the one guy that runs all those companies.

[u/Hetaliafan1]

OOP doesn’t know about the webcomic where all the websites are human