The completely red/orange eyes with no pupils and overly "happy" expression is what makes it so bad. It's a very good representation of reddit in a way. It's like the image version of the tiktok voice, deeply disturbing.
^ Oh, that forced dark mode is most definitely it. It probably takes only the pure whites from images and turns them black, while retaining the grays and other colors
I really like the speech bubble. Makes it very clear that they want to become just another social platform where people, not anonymous accounts, interact with each other.
Probably an unintentional mistake rather than a concious design decision. I think they used a transparent background instead of white, so it accidentally looks evil in night mode. To test, switch your phone out of night mode and see if it schanges the face to white along with the background.
Is it a translucent PNG? Because GIF doesn’t support alpha channels. Also why would they want their logo to shift color? Brand colors are super important
Ha! No, not anymore, not in the current design environment.
Literally every site and app is doing this exact same shit, in almost exactly the same way. They're tripping over themselves to strip away any identity or interesting design elements, and turn into another carbon copy of every other app's floaty, bubbly, needlessly vacant and boringly white/black design.
"I'm not dead. I'm still relevant! Come AMA! This isn't a request. You will be subservient to the almighty Spez. Reddit will devour your very soul and grow stronger! All will bow to Reddit! Look upon me, and despair!"
I use an automatic forced dark mode enabler, because i hate bright sites with a passion, and it is the assumed culprit for why the logo looks so evil for me.
Weird choice gong with the under-the-chin lighting with malevolent red eyes. It's got that horror movie about a toy vibe, like *coming this October: You Snus, you lose."
The jackdaws are cawing. Grab your poop knives and cower from: The Initial Public Offering. This picture has not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America
I literally have not touched Reddit since whenever this whole thing went down, I want to say June or something like that. I have seriously not even once open that damn website since they killed Joey for Reddit. And it's been all for the better because Lemmy is a lot better although lacking in content it doesn't keep me glued to my phone for no damn reason at all hours of the day mostly just at night. Plus I see a lot more intelligent conversation on this place than I ever did on Reddit.
I don't think it's fair to suggest that a more detailed logo is going to automatically be good in this context. People can complain about lack of detail, and also be disappointed if more detail is poorly executed.
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 197 pts · 2y
: peeks over fence :
dafuqsgoingonoverthere...
Ferris@infosec.pub · 50 pts · 2y
heidee ho, neighborino
grue@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Hi, Wilson.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
Shut up Flanders
samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Okily dokily do!
radix@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 2y
Looks perfectly suited to the new reddit.
SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
They’re competing with x for the edgy crowd ad dollars. Good riddance to both
Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
This unironically
LolaCat@lemmy.ca · 111 pts · 2y
The new logo looks like a shitty AI render lol, perfect representation for how sanitized a corpo it has become.
abbadon420@lemm.ee · 59 pts · 2y
I's like the old Bob the Builder vs. The new Bob the Builder:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2):format(webp)/william-dufris-2-4adcc89ac0f0497681d950bdc8dec38e.jpg)
GroteStreet@aussie.zone · 65 pts · 2y
Look how they massacred my boy...
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
Nah they just made him match the modern builder, he's a meth head now.b
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 30 pts · 2y
Holy uncanny valley, Batman
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 2y
WHY???
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 2y
There's a new one??
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 2y
Nah it looks worse.
5 minutes with bing and I got it to make a nice looking one.
Knusper@feddit.de · 20 pts · 2y
I genuinely just thought that's what it was. I had not heard of them rebranding...
brax@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y
A nice bot-made logo to celebrate their army of stupid bots ruining everything.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I am a complete amateur, and I do better jobs
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I don't know how to use 3D design software at all and I do better jobs.
abbadon420@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Blowjobs don't count
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 2y
You serious, Clark?
Breezy@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 2y
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee · 80 pts · 2y
maybe they accidentally left some transparency in place of the white when they first deployed, thus the back background seeped in
rtxn@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y
That thing still looks like something that could devour my sleep paralysis demon.
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
I do not disagree with this comment
M137@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
The completely red/orange eyes with no pupils and overly "happy" expression is what makes it so bad. It's a very good representation of reddit in a way. It's like the image version of the tiktok voice, deeply disturbing.
Breezy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Makes sense. I use a forced dark mode setting for all sites so every so often something comes out looking strange.
Or maybe im just seeing their true nature!
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 2y
^ Oh, that forced dark mode is most definitely it. It probably takes only the pure whites from images and turns them black, while retaining the grays and other colors
Deceptichum@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
::: spoiler I imagine whoever downvoted this didn't get the joke. :::
Alto@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
When I said I was sick of corporate minimalist designs, I did not mean I wanted them combined with late 00s psuedo-3d logos
Carighan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Yeah I was about to say, this looks like they forgot about dark themes at first.
Still, it's a weird logo. It does look distinctively horror-y, and the shading is also weird. Stubble?
tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net · 7 pts · 2y
LMAO That looks like dogshit 🤣
Synthuir@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now.
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee · 55 pts · 2y
Much better
at_an_angle@lemmy.one · 18 pts · 2y
TheWanderer@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
HAHA so cute! Ngl if they really implement this, it'll be dope XD
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
It's the community logo lol
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Bonney drew that one, too.
rustyriffs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Smokeydope@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
nrezcm@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Thanks I hate it.
fatzgebum@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y
Oh my god...
Got_Bent@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 2y
Reddit? Never heard of it. Did I order coffee from there once?
Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 2y
If you did, someone probably spit in it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
spit with some coffee in it
BossDj@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Something something Narwhal bacon
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Midnight
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
It bacons for thee
Esqplorer@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 2y
Just looks like they suck at icon design and don't understand the difference between rasters and vectors.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 24 pts · 2y
Yes those are words
cybersandwich@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 2y
Spez: make it the colour of my soul.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
I laughed and spit tea on my cat. Kitty was upset until she realized catnip was in the tea. Everyone wins. Well done.
1984@lemmy.today · 42 pts · 2y
It's ugly so it's a good fit for reddit.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 2y
I really like the speech bubble. Makes it very clear that they want to become just another social platform where people, not anonymous accounts, interact with each other.
Clinic@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
they don't want anonymous. if you use a private browser with no fingerprinting or VPN, you can't even create an account
ericisshort@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Probably an unintentional mistake rather than a concious design decision. I think they used a transparent background instead of white, so it accidentally looks evil in night mode. To test, switch your phone out of night mode and see if it schanges the face to white along with the background.
4am@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Is it a translucent PNG? Because GIF doesn’t support alpha channels. Also why would they want their logo to shift color? Brand colors are super important
deweydecibel@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Ha! No, not anymore, not in the current design environment.
Literally every site and app is doing this exact same shit, in almost exactly the same way. They're tripping over themselves to strip away any identity or interesting design elements, and turn into another carbon copy of every other app's floaty, bubbly, needlessly vacant and boringly white/black design.
TheBat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Bene7rddso@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Iirc PNG supports just fully transparent and opaque pixels too, so Webp maybe
randomivysaur@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 2y
Looks like a failed Dark Reader-converted image but it's actually intentional this time.
oce@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 2y
ctrl+sift+A doesn't fix it
pastaPersona@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
idk what this fascination with using 3d renders as part of the icon is, terrible idea and looks sloppy imo
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Logos are supposed to be easily recognized and easily scalable. A 3D rendered logo could be the former but is unlikely to be the latter.
Spendrill@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 2y
What the fuck is that? Kill it with fire! If it finds a hole it'll either build a nest in it or try to fuck it.
Retrograde@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
It's a disgusting and heinous atrocity, eerily reminiscent of knuckle-dragging dirt person Steve Huffman
EvilLootbox@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
Redditent Evil: Welcome to Updoot City
Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
AAAAAAAH! WTF IS THAT?! KILL IT!
Iapar@feddit.de · 18 pts · 2y
Light from beneath always looks scary. Just think about people who tell scary storys with a flashlight.
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
It's the Stay-Puft marshmallow man!
naonintendois@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!
dezmd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Thirded, that was my immediate thought.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 14 pts · 2y
"I'm not dead. I'm still relevant! Come AMA! This isn't a request. You will be subservient to the almighty Spez. Reddit will devour your very soul and grow stronger! All will bow to Reddit! Look upon me, and despair!"
Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 2y
I do despair when I look upon you.
Boozilla@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
vodkasolution@feddit.it · 13 pts · 2y
Did they open AwfulTasteButWorseExecution or is it just from Awful Everything?? That's ugly AF!
Snapz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
It looks like the result of a GENAI image prompt for "I'm in danger"
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
It is evil
oDDmON@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Satanically possessed? Def.
eighthourlunch@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
Hey now, don't go hatin' on my buddy Satan. If Reddit were possessed, it'd be way cooler.
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
It's not you. Pretty poor choice to use inverted colors, but keep the red eyes.
Although, I don't see this on the front page. I just see the basic white version. Where is this at?
Breezy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I use an automatic forced dark mode enabler, because i hate bright sites with a passion, and it is the assumed culprit for why the logo looks so evil for me.
MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
Okay, fair enough. I use Dark Reader myself.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 9 pts · 2y
More like creepy.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
Weird choice gong with the under-the-chin lighting with malevolent red eyes. It's got that horror movie about a toy vibe, like *coming this October: You Snus, you lose."
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
It’s midnight and no narwhal will save your bacon
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
The jackdaws are cawing. Grab your poop knives and cower from: The Initial Public Offering.
This picture has not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association of AmericaHipPriest@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
It looks like a shady dealer in an orange hoodie.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Now that you’ve said that not only can I not unsee it but now I almost see Kenny from South Park
HipPriest@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah I get that too now you've said it!
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
yo wtf
affiliate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
this looks like a fledgling startup logo from 2007
GarytheSnail@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
It's going to tell us scary stories.
owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
Even with the dark theme off it still looks like corporate garbage, especially the font.
veloxization@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 2y
I saw this and One-Winged Angel started playing in my head.
OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
U SLASH SPEZ bumbumbumbumbumbumbumbum U SLASH SPEZ
PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks · 2 pts · 2y
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
One-Winged Angel
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Willer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I thought it had a beard when squinted at it
Resol@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It may look harmless but spend enough time with it and it'll destroy your brain... and nuts.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Old reddit is gonna die any day now
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
Probably the coolest it's ever been. Too bad they suck now
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 2y
I literally have not touched Reddit since whenever this whole thing went down, I want to say June or something like that. I have seriously not even once open that damn website since they killed Joey for Reddit. And it's been all for the better because Lemmy is a lot better although lacking in content it doesn't keep me glued to my phone for no damn reason at all hours of the day mostly just at night. Plus I see a lot more intelligent conversation on this place than I ever did on Reddit.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 2y
Joey was my app too, rip
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Joey rocked
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
It really was the best
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Joey was my favourite app too. Eternity for Lemmy is the closest replacement I've found.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Same same but different... But still same.
stinkypoopsalot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You either die the hero, or live long enough to become the villian’s diabolical logo.
Tygr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Looks fixed now.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Its nothing if not consistent/congruent with everything else they've been doing
UnHidden@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I actually really like the new branding. it looks less flat and corporate than the old look
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Use old.reddit and RES. No need for branding at all.
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Ironic
Xylight@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
TheWanderer@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y
Tbh, this just does not look good at all.
abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I don't think it's fair to suggest that a more detailed logo is going to automatically be good in this context. People can complain about lack of detail, and also be disappointed if more detail is poorly executed.
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Not necessarily the same people. And besides, just because you don't like A doesn't mean you have to like B, maybe you prefer C or D.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
There are happy mediums and there are different ways to add details.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 2y
It's just you.. Looking at reddit.. Here