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Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 116 points 1 month ago (3 children)

⚽ 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:

Slazenger Challenge 4-Star

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

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!

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gaelic footballs look similar to that

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[–] drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 month ago

WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (34 children)

Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

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 😁

[–] nickiam2@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

So what? Don't support fascism.

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[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

I agree, but the other people all use it 🫠

[–] plutopos@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

because it's the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Network effects

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ah the joys of still using Meta shit products.

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[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well there's your problem. You're using messenger and emojis.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't find that shit on Signal 🤷‍♂️

[–] OliMoli2137@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

the problem arrives when you try to switch your friends over... :(

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What is the point of these, and their shape

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (11 children)

It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.

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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

You got advertising in my data scraping app!

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FIFA ball does not look happy

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?

[–] dragonlover@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In many parts of the world Whatsapp is the dominate communication platform. My landlord sends me my utility bills through WhatsApp, as is my doctor's scheduling platform, and my vet's contact info, etc. It's basically impossible to do things without it.

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Probably because "Network effect". Many places whatsapp is basically the texting app and you are fucking forced to use it

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[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago
[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

Dammmmn, that's an ugly ball. Let's call it the Curseball Games insted.

(Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one's a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can't say the same for most of the recent ones, it's all a blur to me!)

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The RGB one with the "snakes" on it?

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Not to you, to meme OP

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month ago

Haha. What a joke.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is there a lime green baseball?

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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Fucking disgusting, really. Piece of shit app.

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