{"id":44688,"date":"2017-05-24T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T02:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44688"},"modified":"2020-08-01T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:08:07","slug":"im-on-paypals-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44688","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m on PayPal\u2019s side"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I never really noticed it, because I\u2019m a human being that has a functional brain and knows how to read things before I press buttons, but apparently, there are actually people out there who get tripped up by the similarities between the PayPal logo and the Pandora logo, and now PayPal is suing Pandora for trademark infringement<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consumerist accuses PayPal of going a little too far in dragging Pandora\u2019s reputation onto the ground, to which they\u2019re not entirely wrong, but I think you also kind of have to think of if you were PayPal; another well-known entity out there has basically lifted your identity and colors, and dumb people are confusing someone else with you.\u00a0 That\u2019d piss me off too, and make me say some unpleasant things publicly, if it helps expedite a resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultimately, PayPal\u2019s redesign came first, so in my opinion, they have the high ground in this debate.\u00a0 And I think they do have some ground to stand on, because sure, Pandora is only one P versus two, but it also doesn\u2019t help that the blue gradient within the Pandora P is basically mixed out of the two solid blue swatches that make up both of PayPal\u2019s P\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It really makes me more wonder what the conversation was like at Pandora HQ, especially if:<\/span><\/p>\n

When looking to revamp its logo, PayPal says Pandora considered more than 1,000 options<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They actually looked at more than a thousand options, which is probably bullshit, because just how many fucking ways can you look at the letter P and not just want to be done after 20?<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m assuming some spineless suit with a VP title in their name grew tired of looking at the letter P after 32 options, and while taking a break to piss because seeing the letter P so much made him feel like he should pee, he whipped out his phone at the urinal because people can\u2019t not fucking look at their phones<\/a> no matter where they are including at urinals, and decided to buy something he didn\u2019t need.\u00a0 When checking out, he chose to pay with PayPal, was redirected to PayPal, and was immediately engulfed with revelation at what Pandora\u2019s new logo should be: a rip-off of PayPal\u2019s.\u00a0 And then he busts out of the bathroom, back into the conference room, puts his phone on the center of the table and points at it exclaiming that this is their<\/em> new logo.\u00a0 The Yes Men all fist pump and applaud the ingenious and groundbreaking art direction, and somewhere out there a graphic designer slits their wrists, but Pandora has a new logo, entirely at the expense of PayPal\u2019s own boring sterile identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, in the end, none of this really matters.\u00a0 PayPal isn\u2019t going anywhere soon, and Pandora has more of a risk of getting usurped by other streaming music platforms like Spotify.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really understand why major staple companies of countless people bother changing identities at seeming frivolously, and I don\u2019t know why Pandora thought they could rebrand in a manner that\u2019s evidently way too close to another company\u2019s identity.\u00a0 But doing what I do for a living, shit like this does intrigue me, and if I had to pick a side in who is right versus who is wrong, I\u2019d have to go with PayPal.\u00a0 They simply locked their shit down first, and anyone who does anything close to it afterwards, is copying them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never really noticed it, because I\u2019m a human being that has a functional brain and knows how to read things before I press buttons, but apparently, there are actually people out there who get tripped up by the similarities between the PayPal logo and the Pandora logo, and now PayPal is suing Pandora for … Continue reading I\u2019m on PayPal\u2019s side<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,131,45,94,52],"class_list":["post-44688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-advertising","tag-branding","tag-fail","tag-graphic-design","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44690,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44688\/revisions\/44690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}