Tech Giants and Their 'Made-Up' Corporate Names
Description
This is a four-panel meme using a scene from the Marvel movie 'Avengers: Infinity War' where Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange. In the first panel, Spider-Man has the Google logo superimposed on him and says, 'I'm Google, by the way.' In the second panel, Doctor Strange has the Facebook logo on him and replies, 'Meta.' The third panel shows Google's character looking confused, with the caption, 'Oh, we're using our made-up names.' In the final panel, he stands defiantly and declares, 'Then I'm Alphabet.' The meme satirizes the corporate rebranding of tech giants, specifically Facebook's recent change to Meta (in late 2021) and Google's earlier restructuring under the parent company Alphabet (in 2015). The humor lies in pointing out that these corporate parent names feel artificial and are rarely used by the public, perfectly capturing the tech community's cynical reaction to what is often seen as corporate PR moves
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Using your parent company's name is like telling someone you write in binary. Sure, it's technically true, but nobody knows what you're talking about and you just sound pretentious
You can rename the company to Alphabet all you want; the 20-year-old monorepo will still import com.google.* - marketing rebrands are just TODOs with a logo budget
The real multiverse madness is trying to explain to your non-tech relatives why your employer changed from FAANG to MAANG, but you still work on the same deprecated PHP codebase from 2008
When your corporate restructuring is so convoluted that even your own engineers need a dependency graph to explain the org chart. Alphabet acquired Google the same way I 'refactored' my monolith into microservices - technically correct, but everyone still calls it by the old name and nobody's really sure why we did it except for 'strategic reasons' that made sense in a board meeting
Rebranding: the facade pattern for companies - new public interface, same leaky monolith underneath
Rebrands are easy on slides - wake me when 3,000 fb_* table prefixes, OAuth scopes, and repo paths are migrated; until then, call me Alphabet and ship the CNAME
Big Tech rebranding is just the Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering applied to PR: add a layer of indirection - Facebook→Meta, Google→Alphabet; same monolith, new interface
🛑 repost Comment deleted
Is it about this meme or the whole channel? Comment deleted
That meme, lol Comment deleted
can't always be original - in fact, I think most memes in here are plain stolen tbh. The admin serves as a meme collector, not a -creator. Comment deleted
why alphabet... Comment deleted
I think it's because searching engines are usually like glossaries where you have lists of data in alphabetical order, but I could be wrong Comment deleted
nah Comment deleted
The companies registered name is Alphabet Inc. Comment deleted
their website is abc.xyz btw Comment deleted
from start to the end Comment deleted
btw, translate "book" into Russian and listen to the English person pronouncing it, quite interesting Comment deleted
already knew that one Comment deleted
google'a parent company is alphabet Comment deleted