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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 by jambalaya8 »

sapphirelimetea wrote: post #124
SkyMarshal wrote: post #38

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.

> Ferris wheels? Yes because the spokes are the lines that go to the center > Camera [apertures]? 100% - they even "wink" > Does every circle in the world look like an asshole? Well every asshole is circular and every person has an asshole so we are biased toward seeing them everywhere. Any prominently placed circle will always trigger an evolutionary reaction. Do I: A) Sniff it B) Hump it C) Bite it D) Vibe code slo…

All due respect, but is anyone's asshole actually circular? Asking as most asshole seem to me to be squished closed and more starry-slat-like. Functionally speaking a circular asshole would be terrible; sphincters are important.

The logos do look too canonically similar in general, though. :(

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

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Post by voxleone »

dvh wrote: post #106

Circle is the perfect shape. Take a rock, throw it in a water, you get circular ripple. Throw a brick, circular ripple. Throw a bicycle, circular ripple.

Circles are aristocracy in Flatland[0]. In advertising[1], they reign no less supreme.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45506 [1] https://inkbotdesign.com/circle-logos/

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

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Post by tremon »

subscribed wrote: post #92
chungusamongus wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buttholes occur in nature all the time

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

The embryo, not the fetus. Pretty sure that's referring to gastrulation, where the cell blob splits into multiple layers to start cell specialization; it does this by curving in on itself, and the cavity formed by this process becomes the intestinal tract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrulation#Protostomes_versu...

However, that all happens at the embryonic stage (around day 9). At the point where the embryo has advanced sufficiently to be called a fetus (around week 9), the body has already sufficiently developed so that it's impossible to say where "fetal development" starts: https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php?titl...

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

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Post by rglover »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #38

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.

> Does every circle in the world look like an asshole?

One man's trash...

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

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

someguynamedq wrote: post #125
wartywhoa23 wrote: post #122

This is the worship of the eye of the Horus, of the entity that is both all-seeing and all-engulfing. Black Sun, Saturn (hexagon in OpenAI logo, anyone?), saturnalias and all the ensuing and tangential cults. The ouroboric cult of Singularity, etc. The clergy beyond those AI corporations uses those symbols to express the intent for power, total control and surveillance. The amount of esoteric obsession of those who p…

Do you know what the ouroboros represents?

The ever-failing attempt to attain the ever-eluding meaning that is always beyond all words and other means to express it.

The knowledge that can never be caught into a fixed form. The Mercury of alchemists.

The paradox of "war is peace", "slavery is freedom" and the like, and both the promise to solve it (by striving to close the gap between Ouroboros' mouth and tail), and eternal damnation of the elusive drift of all meanings in its unresolved state.

A certain 3rd entity around which the duality of the visible world evolves and revolves, remaining out of its scope, which is better expressed by the Caduceus.

Also, the attempt to conceal that invisible third hermetically, which always fails without failing, fractally and recursively generating all the spectrum of meanings from this single underlying paradox, the resolution of which was sought after by alchemists in the form of Lapis Philosophorum.

I could go on and on, but this can only be experienced, not expressed.

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

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Post by wartywhoa23 »

redanddead wrote: post #130
chungusamongus wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buttholes occur in nature all the time

Evolutionary it’s one of the first things to develop, see coleopteres Millions of species are just tubes

Further generalized as tori in terms of topology, and humans are no exception.
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