Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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FIFA ball does not look happy
Why is there a lime green baseball?
It's a softie for the ladies
Haha. What a joke.
You got advertising in my data scraping app!
WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
I know we're all saying network effects, but I don't know what the fuck network effects means.
Network effects dude. Network effects.
I don't get to choose what app my European friends use
Network effects
because it's the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries
I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.
I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Damn shame
changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Sounds great - if I wasn't already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁
The only people that believe I'm worth contacting have already switched to Signal and the ones that refused to switch lost contact with me. Their loss I guess.
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I agree, but the other people all use it 🫠
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⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
Gaelic footballs look similar to that
That said volleyball to me, but maybe there's a size difference?
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
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Genuinely why would you have a problem with this? It's just an extra emoji, as far as advertising goes that's not that bad
By FIFA, the people who gave Trump a peace prize? Yeah, why would that be annoying?
Ryzen logo
I could put those balls in my ass abd I still wouldn't get a pallbearer outta my marriage. Did I spell that right. Hope I did. Wouldn't want to be wrong on yhr intenert
Fully convinced this is an LLM told to misspell in order to look more human and it just can't without losing it.
Man, I bet you can't tell me what tf to do boy. Nor can I tell you to investigate. No one fucking investigates. I do one stretch of comments at a time and most people are so chuckle happy they don't even know God's a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, let alone I teach this in my educational (f)art project, but retard over here is "fully convinced," so why don't I mention how much I love feet and leave it at that.
Well there's your problem. You're using messenger and emojis.
I can't find that shit on Signal 🤷♂️
the problem arrives when you try to switch your friends over... :(
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As someone that knows nothing about sports what an I even looking at here and why are people upset about it? All I see are balls and ball accessories.
Hank Soccer here
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Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.
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