It really isn't. No-one was calling for Amazon to be banned, no-one was even outraged about it. A couple of people made some jokes on Twitter. That's all.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
Make your icon a random blot and some people will imagine Hitler in that too. It's a packing box with tape on the top, something Amazon is widely known for.
Important to remember that Amazon’s strategy for everything is to scale to infinity. Even if something offends .01% of people, those are people amazon wants as a customer and a slight app icon change to accommodate them is well worth the money.
which took an idea that could have been trite and boring but made it really creepy. I think because it had that whole boiling the frog thing down - it paced the move from absurd to horrible just right.
To be fair, the tape reminds me more of the orange hair patch of a Mr. Meeseeks than Hitler's mustache, mostly because of the smile. The only way I can see a blue Hitler mustache is imagining a closeup cropped from below the nose, and a really tiny mouth.
I guess it costs them less to change the icon and letting the self-offenders pick someone else.
I think it's silly that Hitler had a particular moustache 80 years ago therefore that moustache style is permanently verboten. I rock a moustache very similar to Stalin's, thankfully that one is allowed.
I also wonder if it was a popular moustache style in the 1930s or if it already made him look different at the time.
I know Michael Jordan sported the style a few years ago and that also didn’t go well.
Infamy really sticks around. Adolf is still pretty much dead as a name and nearly everyone with a last name of Hitler had their last name changed (in the US at least). People still don't name their kid Judas.
It was a perfectly practical Great War mustache style for gas masks when facial hair was more in vogue but it is still emotionally poisoned.
Agreed, this attitude has to end. People are forcing themselves to imagine Nazism in symbols, meanwhile there's actual racism on plain view that many pretend not to see.
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familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
which took an idea that could have been trite and boring but made it really creepy. I think because it had that whole boiling the frog thing down - it paced the move from absurd to horrible just right.
Also, the Hitler-esque tape at least looked like tape. Now the blue part uses the symbol that's usually used for a post-it note.
What has a blue sticker got to do with hitler?
A hitler 'tash is ultra short and square, not a long curve.
I guess it costs them less to change the icon and letting the self-offenders pick someone else.
It was a perfectly practical Great War mustache style for gas masks when facial hair was more in vogue but it is still emotionally poisoned.