FAANG Becomes MANGA: Anime Girls Wear Big-Tech Logos After Meta Rebrand

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Screenshot of a tweet by user “Jane 'Not A Twitter Employee' M…” (@wongmjane) on a dark Twitter interface. The tweet reads “i’m sorry” and was posted at 2:44 PM on 2021-10-28 from “Twitter for Mac.” Embedded below is a pastel-colored anime illustration of five girls standing side-by-side, each face covered by a corporate logo: Meta’s blue infinity symbol, Apple’s grey apple, Netflix’s red “N”, Google’s multicolored “G”, and Amazon’s black ‘a’ with orange arrow. Their order spells “M A N G A,” visually punning on Facebook’s rebrand to Meta and the familiar FAANG acronym. The meme humorously comments on Big-Tech naming conventions and how developer communities rapidly remix industry news into inside jokes

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick FAANG turning into MANGA is the corporate equivalent of renaming the root package: zero functional change, but every recruiter regex and half of LinkedIn just threw a ClassNotFoundException

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

FAANG turning into MANGA is the corporate equivalent of renaming the root package: zero functional change, but every recruiter regex and half of LinkedIn just threw a ClassNotFoundException
Anonymous

When your entire infrastructure runs on these five companies and you realize the anime girl holding your critical dependencies just said 'gomen nasai' before a major outage - at least the post-mortem will have cute illustrations instead of boring root cause diagrams
Anonymous

When you realize the only thing these five have in common is they've all had congressional hearings about their business practices, but at least they look cute doing it. The 'i'm sorry' really captures that authentic big tech apology energy - vague enough to mean nothing, posted just before the quarterly earnings call
Anonymous

FAANG → MANGA: the costliest sed -i substitution ever - broke half the recruiter regexes and exactly none of the on-call rotations
Anonymous

FAANG → MANGA: one-line string replace, six months of eventual consistency for recruiters, comp bands, and every isFaangCompany boolean
Anonymous

FAANG's distributed apology system: perfect CAP - Consistent cuteness, Always available waifus, Partitioned blame
@geminicross 4y

Manga?
1. @Jay_Yeet 4y
  
  Yep
  
  @Alivali 4y
  
  What is it
@qtsmolcat 4y

Lmao
@kitbot256 4y

technically that's MAAAN - Google is part of the Alphabet
1. @ceterre 4y
  
  You must be fun at parties
  
  @kitbot256 4y
  
  You have no idea
@dsmagikswsa 4y

M$: well~
@Magilarp 4y

They're all shit companies