Amazon changes new app icon after design is compared to Hitler mustache
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familiar to those who lived through the D&D satanic panic.
You know who else had a similar mustache? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/eb/OrwellB...
But that was in the mid-1920s. Obviously it was fashionable at one point, in some circles, and once it was associated with Hitler, people stopped wearing it.
There is a distinction between saying "something associated with something bad is aesthetically displeasing or embarrassing" and saying "something associated with something bad is a terrible crime". The former is not a moral panic.
We _are_ in a time of poorly motivated clickbait content, however. That's what this is. There's a certain irony here somewhere in people being outraged about the outrage they perceive others to have... the original outrage doesn't even exist and yet another outrage cycle begins.
which took an idea that could have been trite and boring but made it really creepy. I think because it had that whole boiling the frog thing down - it paced the move from absurd to horrible just right.
Also, the Hitler-esque tape at least looked like tape. Now the blue part uses the symbol that's usually used for a post-it note.
What has a blue sticker got to do with hitler?
A hitler 'tash is ultra short and square, not a long curve.
I guess it costs them less to change the icon and letting the self-offenders pick someone else.
It was a perfectly practical Great War mustache style for gas masks when facial hair was more in vogue but it is still emotionally poisoned.
Anne to be frank, my first thought was I don't like either variant. The Hitlerishness of it was a second thought.
That said, I thought the rule was that you never went full Hitler and I would have said this tiny soupçon of Hitler was just the right amount to add a bit of darkness to the overall flavor.
Clearly I'm out of step with the times.