Ask HN: Has Facebook rehabilitated their name?
2 piratesAndSons 4 8/21/2025, 3:26:09 PM
I never see people calling them spyware operations anymore, so did the rebrand actually work?
I wonder why drug cartels don’t just change their names to get a similar advantage. If one of the Mexican drug cartels owned a social media company, would their name be rehabilitated the way Facebook’s was when it became Meta?
boatracecrook
boat race = cockney rhyming slang for face
crook = book
I have never been on boatracecrook, but if they changed the name to boatracecrook I might consider joining.
Look at the boatrace on that!!
Most of their users would keep using Facebook if it was rebranded to "brain poison" and its logo changed to a skull-and-crossbones. It never rehabilitated, it was never sullied by the mainstream in the first place.