Meta's Logo: Did It Copy Visual Studio's Homework?
Description
A two-part meme comparing the logos of Microsoft Visual Studio and Meta. The top half contains a three-line text exchange on a white background: 'Hey, can I copy your homework?', followed by 'Sure, just make it look different so that it doesn't look like you just copied it.', and finally 'Sure thing.'. The bottom half consists of two images side-by-side. On the left, against a black background, is the purple logo for Microsoft Visual Studio, which resembles a stylized infinity symbol. On the right is a screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg during a presentation, with the new blue Meta logo displayed prominently next to him. The Meta logo also resembles a stylized, slightly warped infinity symbol. The meme humorously alleges that Meta's logo is a thinly veiled copy of the Visual Studio logo, using the popular 'copying homework' meme format to make the point. It's a cynical take on corporate branding, resonating with developers familiar with the long-standing Visual Studio icon
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The Meta logo is just the Visual Studio logo after a few billion dollars in funding and a pivot to a virtual world where bugs are features and the 'endless loop' is the business model
Meta’s “new” logo feels like someone ran `git clone visual-studio-logo && sed -e 's/#68217A/#0064FF/' && git push --force branding` - hope they remembered to update the license header
The real metaverse was the Visual Studio instances we compiled along the way - at least Microsoft's infinity loop crashes with proper stack traces instead of just harvesting your biometric data
When your rebrand's diff shows you basically just changed the color palette and variable names from 'microsoft_purple' to 'meta_blue' - but hey, at least you ran the linter and updated the copyright year
DRY applied to branding: Meta forked the Visual Studio logo, tweaked a design token, renamed the namespace, and shipped
Meta 1.0 shipped with a logo that collides with VisualStudio.Icon via perceptual-hash Hamming distance < 5 - branding needs namespacing and a pre-commit hook too
Meta's secret to IDE innovation: git clone microsoft/vs, sed 's/VS/Meta/g' logo.png, commit -m "disruptive architecture"
Metasoft Comment deleted
2012 one fits better Comment deleted
👍 Comment deleted
this one is actually 2010 one https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio Comment deleted
That makes complete sense now Comment deleted
it is more than 1:1 👍😂 Comment deleted
https://t.me/devs_chat/40254 Comment deleted
Anybody knows the visual basic 2008 icon? Comment deleted