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by pcthrowaway 1630 days ago
> MAMAA

took me a second, but I guess it's Microsoft Apple Meta Amazon Alphabet now

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I kinda would rather just keep calling it Facebook; Meta feels like a bad joke that we shouldn't repeat.
It reeks of “that’s so fetch!”
Welp. My brain interpreted "fetch" in the context of "replacement for JavaScript XHR", as though Vietnam war flashbacks had collectively been replaced with modern web development.
Why don't we all just say Big Tech at this point? Literally could be any of those companies, and it doesn't matter beyond that.
I'm partial to MANGA (for the former FAANG) and GAMMA when you replace Netflix with MS.
yep, exactly. When Facebook changed their name to Meta, people were looking for a good acronym for the biggest tech companies.
NAAAM, a tour in NAAAM

I need to get back on Blind to make my memes propagate

It's kind of weird to use Alphabet in this context because people at Google seem to mostly still refer to it as Google, and the comp and hiring standards vary widely between the "other bets".
I mean, I imagine Facebook employees still call it facebook too?

I like it, I hope it catches on. Right now I think it's just odd looking because it's unfamiliar.

Interesting that out of five corporations, only two letters are represented. Ok, "A" is ranked third in frequency in the English language, but the other one I avoided in these sentences? Not even in the top twelve.
Freqency at the begining of words is likely to be different to frequency anywhere in the word. Regardless, "a" has the highest frequency in the company names, when spelled out in full (occurring 6 times, in 3 of the 5 corporations)
Could be M2A3, like the tank.
GAMMA?