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Amazon tweaks app icon after comparisons made to Hitler
NY post ^

Posted on 03/02/2021 3:17:52 PM PST by janetjanet998

Amazon has changed its new smartphone app logo after critics said the earlier incarnation was a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler. The e-commerce giant introduced the new icon in January to replace the symbol of a shopping cart with one featuring a brown box with a jagged piece of blue tape above the company’s iconic smile-shaped arrow. But sharp-eyed users noticed the tape disturbingly recalled the Führer’s toothbrush mustache. “It’s not just a ripped scotch tape, it’s a ripped scotch tape that has a similar shape and is right on top of a smiling mouth. Looks like a happy little cardboard Adolf to me,” one person said on Twitter.

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To: janetjanet998

Life here is pretty good if this kind of piddling stuff is all they can find to upset them.


21 posted on 03/02/2021 3:46:32 PM PST by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
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To: Leaning Right

Another F-bomb!

22 posted on 03/02/2021 3:46:44 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: Uncle Miltie

I’ve always thought the Amazon logo was a penis.


23 posted on 03/02/2021 3:47:57 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Williams

It’s 💯 Bezos’s d*** after those images were released. Can’t unsee it on every truck and box.


24 posted on 03/02/2021 3:49:00 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: CodeToad

The icon is horrible.


25 posted on 03/02/2021 3:55:32 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: janetjanet998

mental people fail Rorschach’s ink blots tests, too

funny that they never see the Xi or Mao or Stalin or Pol Pot or Ghadaffi.


26 posted on 03/02/2021 4:13:36 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: janetjanet998

I guess Charlie Chaplin is cancelled too.


27 posted on 03/02/2021 4:14:02 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Leaning Right

It looks like a periscope from a N#zi sub.


28 posted on 03/02/2021 4:37:47 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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To: Bayard

I saw this and started singing “Hitler’s everywhere” to the tune of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere”. LOL.


29 posted on 03/02/2021 6:23:53 PM PST by grateful
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To: rfp1234

> It looks like a periscope from a N#zi sub. <

You’re right! This Facebook conspiracy is even bigger than I thought!


30 posted on 03/03/2021 4:57:27 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition )
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