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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

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post #18

I guess it has to do with the fact that everything is greyscale nowadays ... did you notice there are no more coloured cars, and the few that are there are all faded.

I think because people are visually overstimulated from all the content in their phones, they prefer plain minimal design in the physical world.

It's not about what people want, it's about what designers all sheepishly follow.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

#104
post #91

Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Lenses? Ferris wheels? This is like a Rorschach test.

Yes, a lot of commenters here (and the author) outing themselves.

Connoisseurs of fine buttholes.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

#105

Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Lenses? Ferris wheels? This is like a Rorschach test.

It's less about how most of them look like different stages of fisting party, and more about the fact that they have zero distinctive elements. Despite the amount of ads being shoved down my asshole, I still find it difficult to recognize different brands. Meta and Gemini being the worst offenders, if you show me these two logos in a week and ask what they are, I'd have zero clue they're even company logos. This is the level of failure we're talking about.

I think this is peak millennialism because the design is supposed to be as inoffensive as possible and therefore shows absolutely nothing.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

#108
post #18

I guess it has to do with the fact that everything is greyscale nowadays ... did you notice there are no more coloured cars, and the few that are there are all faded.

I'm guessing limited car colors benefits the manufacturers more so than the customer. Less choice means less cost. Additionally, by avoiding 'polarizing' colors, they likely won't have issues with unsellable stock.

Can also be a side effect of cars being so expensive, people want to minimise depreciation so choose conservative colours.

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

#109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I not misheard (I don't know, just remember it), even the fetus development basically starts from the butthole.

I read somewhere that the first invertebrate animal ate and excreted through the same butthole-shaped oriface.

Some still do: it's called a gastrovascular cavity, and is present in marine invertebrates such as Cnidaria (jellyfish, coral polyps, anemones), Ctenophores (comb jellies); Platyhelminthes (flatworms, tapeworms).

Re: Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

#110

Claude is the only one that looks like an asshole. The rest are just circular, or not even that. Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Car wheels? Pizzas? Camera Lenses? Ferris wheels? This is like a Rorschach test.

OpenAI is more... open. Maybe that's what they wanted to communicate.

They should have chosen the domain goatse.ai
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