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The social media site known as Facebook will still use that name, but its parent company has a new brand. On Thursday, that his company will be called “Meta” to reflect the company’s focus on building a larger virtual world beyond the Facebook platform. The company also owns photo app Instagram, messaging app WhatsApp and more.
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With a platform as popular as Facebook, an announcement this big couldn’t go unmocked. The jokes flew even before this week’s announcement, . But Zuckerberg’s announcement just opened the door https://alismailia.com for more commentary.
Animaniacs
Immediately after the name was announced, the Twitter account for the picked up on it, quoting the line in its theme song that proclaims, “We did meta first.”
We did meta first.
— The Animaniacs (@TheAnimaniacs)
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Really? Meta?
Others imagined how the name choice came about, or simply marveled at the choice.
“Honest to god thought this was satire,” wrote one Twitter user. “Honest to god. This is the kind of pseudonym they give tech companies in Hallmark movies because it’s so ridiculously fake.”
Honest to god thought this was satire. Honest to god. This i
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— Phil™ (@Henkepotamus)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha… *gasps for breath*
“…Meta?”
WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture)
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Facebook: “Building the metaverse is going to take a level of creativity we’ve never seen before”
Also Facebook: “Our new name is Meta”
— Inglourious Capital (@inglouriouscap)
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Overheard: But what’s the Meta for?
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei)
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— iBOO! ️ (@joshiku)
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Changing name to Meat
— Meat (@Wendys)
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Acronyms and more
“Meta” means “showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential,” according to Merriam-Webster. But some people thought it could be an acronym, such as “Mark Evading True Accountability,” or “Mark Evading Tax Accountability.”
META: Mark Evading True Accountability
— Rick Horowitz (@Rick_Horowitz)
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Mark Evading Tax Accountability.
— Orc-Slaying Fort Architect KiwiCthulu™ (@kiwicthulu)
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the Meta-morphosis by Franz Kafka
— Alexandra PetriFYING!!! ooOOoo (@petridishes)
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Yesterday, upon the stair,
I Meta man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub)
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Facebook is the new RadioShack- remember when it rebranded itself to shack!!! That worked out well!!
— martin J mcmahon (@MartinJmcmah)
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Because they’re after your data, of course
— Elgin-Skye McLaren (@elginskye)
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Other name ideas
Some, of course, thought there were better choices out there than Meta.
“Was low-key hoping for book face,” wrote one Twitter user.
Was low-key hoping for book face
— Ⓜ️ (@shittalkermarco)
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“Suckerbook” would be quite appropriate as well…..
— CÒѧËŔVÅŤÏ§M SŮX (@McDee85)
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Meta?
It should just go all the way and call it Narcissism.
— Julie (@TruBluBrewCru)
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“The Aristocrats” was right there
— Andy (@FrancisTheSailr)
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I have a better name.
— Mike Murphy (@mdmurphyla)
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What’s in a name?
And people continued to note that a name change is perhaps not getting at Facebook’s real problems.
Wrote one person, “Yeah sure, THIS was the issue with Facebook.”
Yeah sure, THIS was the issue with Facebook.
— PJ Courington (@PJCourington)
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The problem is not what Facebook is called.
The problem is what Facebook/Meta is.
— Mark Cheesman ☠️ (@stilton54)
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So…don’t fix the problems…just change the name and move on?
— MM Wilson (@ememwilson123)
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feeling meta
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond)
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