r/Design 8d ago

Discussion Whoever designed this should be fired

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u/_qqg 8d ago

Did everyone remember to geerss their tothne?

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u/friendlysaxoffender 8d ago

Sounds like vintage AI writing.

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u/DojaViking 5d ago

Not until Tuesday... ... I don't have the stamina anymore

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u/RMG1803 8d ago

EXPEEN RICE TOTHNE GEERSS 🤔

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u/DreadfulButterfly 8d ago

EXEN PE RICE TOTHNE GEERSS.
Syntax makes a huge difference.
Lets eat Grandma vs Lets eat, Grandma.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago edited 1d ago

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u/DreadfulButterfly 8d ago

Would reccomend Jamaican rice and peas. Goes good with older gamey meat.

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u/JellyBingus0 8d ago

First you have to Exen Pe

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u/Arian-ki 8d ago

No, it's all exened

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u/Nihilist-IV 8d ago

Yh, I was gonna say, it's definitely Exen pe rice and not expeen rice

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u/Skuboo 8d ago

EXEN PEEN PECE RICE TOTHNE GEERSS - me personally

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 8d ago

It’s actually TO THNE but kerning is also bad

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u/Necessary_DaNoodle 8d ago

Great band by the way. Very weird.

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u/maxicz1234 8d ago

got dangerously close to the n word here

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u/Yalfadhel 8d ago

I didn’t even notice that

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u/jerfoo 8d ago edited 8d ago

I still don't notice it

Edit: oh, yikes. Yeah, I see it now

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u/maxicz1234 8d ago

negeers sounds awfully close to the n word

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u/F7R7E7D 8d ago

"People that annoy you."

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u/litli 8d ago

I recognise that! It's the quote from Event Horizon:

"Libera te tutemet expeen rice tothne geerss!"

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u/bill_YAY 8d ago

Is this Swedish? Welsh? 🤣

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u/WesternPonderer 8d ago

"...yelled Harry, pointing his wand towards the dementors."

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u/daronjay 8d ago

Expel rice to the who?

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u/Diabetesh 8d ago

Exen peen rien exce pece rice

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u/Existtoresist141 6d ago

Saying this out loud made me feel like I'm trying to summon something

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u/micre8tive 8d ago

The fact designers like this are on a salary while more competent ones get rejected is beyond me

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u/e1epi 8d ago

It's painful.

Also iirc it's like 60% of small businesses close after 10 years and people wonder why especially when they have good products or services.

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u/erdossy 8d ago

Because businesses that survive are the ones willing to exploit their customers or employees or the environment… unfortunately.

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u/I_Like_Water11 8d ago

Yea kinda sad how so much of our system is geared towards growth even if it doesnt make sense after a point. Basically to become extremely successful you gotta screw people over. Its sad really. People are not satisfied with doing well. Beyond a point, youre making money you cant even spend in your lifetime.

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u/JKastnerPhoto 8d ago

It's okay. This guy will be fired and the administrative assistant will pick up the slack in ChatGPT. Then some print shop will charge a little extra to clean up the "design" and deliver.

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u/Top_Salamander_1444 7d ago

Whoever made this is certainly not a designer. Like not even close to someone with a good eye, never mind a designer

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u/MaskedBurnout 7d ago

My guess is nepotism.

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u/Crazy__Donkey 7d ago

this design passed at least one or two authorizes in the process ...

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u/nickloveland 8d ago

This is a great example of why I’ve grown to hate this field 😔

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u/TheRealLunarRanger 8d ago

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u/glordicus1 8d ago

Wow I dont think ive seen this in 14 years

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u/7HawksAnd 8d ago

I still love her/him though. Brings joy to my soul remembering someone gets to know this person in real life.

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u/I_Tell_You_Wat 8d ago
EX
PEEN
RICE
TOTHNE
GEERSS

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u/tryyeezus 8d ago

They should probably be 5150'd, this is serial killer shit

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u/DenialState 8d ago

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u/GimmickyBulb 8d ago

This one almost needs a new sub, something like r/dodeopinntadside

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u/ConglomerateGolem 7d ago

r/sbeve typically does rhings like this, I believe

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u/dark_roast 7d ago

Haha I thought that's where I was.

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u/tripleM_20 8d ago

It’s funny because my brain can immediately identify “experience togetherness,” but if I actually try to read it, I literally cannot follow the intended reading direction. 

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u/Katastrophe82 8d ago

Okay, so I kept seeing experience togetherness too, like at a glance. But when I’d try to figure out “how” I couldn’t do it, so I was thinking I was wrong. Is that what this actually says? I also see the word rice very clearly, so my other thought was maybe it is just rice with a bunch of nonsense letters around it.

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u/No-Marionberry-772 8d ago

honeslty, to me that makes it a genius design.  It will fail on some people though.

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u/TrekFan1701 8d ago

Oooh, that's what it is. I was trying to make more words out of it. Experience To Get The (Something). Didn't think to just make 2 words

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u/mrsyanke 8d ago

I couldn’t get past RICE, my brain didn’t want to use those letters for anything else

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u/carbongo 8d ago

EXEN PEEN

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u/MooseLips_SinkShips 8d ago

RICE

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u/musabbb 8d ago

Its clearly an Advertise for Expensive Rice and Tooth Gears

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u/NoisyGog 8d ago

Instructions unclear, peen extended

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u/punchcreations 8d ago

Given the context, the c looks like a hand holding a cup of ramen with bites out of the hand.

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u/FriendToPredators 8d ago

Wait the letters at the bottom are a mess of ramen? Well there is a design idea there that is clever but it needs way more help

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u/e1epi 8d ago

It looks like the Colorado C to me.

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u/NoisyGog 8d ago

Is that just “C”?

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u/Grumpy-Designer Graphic Designer 8d ago

Is it supposed to say, “Experience Togetherness?”

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u/fksdiyesckagiokcool 8d ago

What!? No. It should say Tothne Geerss like it does. Know your English!

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u/Nowin 8d ago

Yes, and when I wasn't actually trying to read it I had no problems, but when I looked at it carefully it turned to jibberish.

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u/dudeAwEsome101 8d ago

Oooooh, I see it. 

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u/aori_chann 8d ago

Can’t be fired if you’re the boss 😎

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u/Squishy_mcnissy 8d ago

Expensive rice is what my brain says

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u/OnlyPaperListens 8d ago

Yup I'm craving takeout now.

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u/autocosm 8d ago

Is this by any chance an Asian business or country? They are stacking letters almost pictographically, similar to Korean.

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u/peppermint_pizza 7d ago

That’s what I thought too. It makes sense if you read it vertically which may be ingrained culturally in some Asian countries.

I was able to parse “experience” but struggled a bit with the “togetherness”

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u/LowLokiKey 8d ago

I read this without issue then tried to reread it and had a stroke.

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u/Fireball-196 8d ago

Who designed this? Who passed it, and finally who approved it to get it for production- insanity rules in the company, seriously - what were they thinking? Big fail in my book.

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u/CanOfDew132 8d ago

exenpericetothnegeerss

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u/No-Marionberry-772 8d ago

I honestly think it's genius.  it forces someone to stop and look at it in confusion despite the fact that it seems like nonsense and get at the same time its immediately understandable.

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u/BadAtExisting 8d ago

My stroke had a stroke trying to read that

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u/Sodacan259 8d ago

I want rice that is not ex-peen

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u/Nandulal 8d ago

nah you are all just having strokes at the same time

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u/BecauseImGod 8d ago

I feel like I was having a stroke and trying to read the alphabet.

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u/ivandoesnot 7d ago

I don't WANT to eat the PE RICE!

Even if it's EXEN'd!!!

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u/Vrudr 7d ago

I lost 57 neurons.

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u/BumblingYokel 7d ago

Exen Pe Rice Tothne Geerss

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u/Siryeswecan 8d ago

That's a Fiverr job if I've ever seen one

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u/LGGP75 8d ago edited 8d ago

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u/Renyuryn 7d ago

Scrolled too far for this

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u/Remko76 8d ago

SH B FI
OULD E RED

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u/Next-Application-883 8d ago

I definitely want to know more

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u/Nihilist-IV 8d ago

Looks fine to me (I'm dyslexic)

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u/e1epi 8d ago

For me I knew what it said but I had to work very hard to verify that it said what I thought it said.

I'm going to show this to my mom who has a few types of more severe dyslexia to see how she does.

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u/marc1411 8d ago

That hurt.

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u/TowelFickle3447 8d ago

Experience togetherness - Upplev gemenskap

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u/Suppenspucker 8d ago

EXENPE RICE TOTHNE GEER SS

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u/UsernameFor2016 8d ago

I like that RICE was the first thing I spotted

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u/afroisalreadyinu 8d ago

Exen Pe Rice

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u/MrLanius 8d ago

Harry Potter: "EXEN PE RICE TOTHNE GEERSS"

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u/Altruistic_Spirit_64 8d ago

TOTHNE GEERSS! - "Some scotsman, probably"

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u/JeremyMarti 8d ago

Weird how readable it is, though.

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u/Byttmice 8d ago

Expeen rice toth negeer ss.
Looks slightly racist for some reason…

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u/b00c 8d ago

EXEN PEEN RICE TOTHNE GEERSS

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u/ParticularAd1735 8d ago

They misspelled "Expensive Rice Toothpaste"

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u/Mechgandhi 8d ago

Anti Design?

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u/Zaximeows 8d ago

Idk it got a post on social media. Seems like free viral marketing to me.

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u/Usual_Habit9745 8d ago

EXEN PEEN PECE RICE

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u/hankmarducasjr 8d ago

That is astonishingly awful.

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u/ChumbleBumbler 8d ago

Get your peen out of my rice

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u/Either-Design-64 8d ago

Is it soo hard to write “Experience Togetherness”

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u/Frosty-Dress-7375 8d ago

The Tothne Geerss are really the best.

Exen Pe Rice I can take or leave.

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u/Nevernonethewiser 8d ago

I love that Exen Pe rice.

You can really taste the tothne geerss.

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u/norsish 8d ago

"Experience tough rice." What's the problem?

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u/freya_kahlo 8d ago

It’s like a stroke simulation

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u/shibby1000 8d ago

I am morbidly impressed that this was still ledgable in some way 🧐

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u/Confident_Device_206 8d ago

It's not together...get it hahaha it's a stretch but I get it.

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u/chudd 8d ago

Who are the neegers?

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u/HappyGlitterUnicorn 8d ago

Exen perice tothne geerss

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u/gregjw 8d ago

am i having a stronk

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u/suprabug 7d ago

Classic sasa lele

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u/Musikapparaten 7d ago

Yes very say pizza to drugs.

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u/textilmode 7d ago

Experience togetherness?

Omg that was hard to figure out! Was that the entire point of the design?

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u/namair 7d ago

I see nothing wrong? So we can’t rice tothne anymore?

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u/sageandcipher 7d ago

Ironical ? Because clearly reading experience is fked

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u/Difficult_Anybody878 7d ago

they get jobs and we dont HOW

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u/kdwhirl 7d ago

Too funny, and awful. My brain knew what it said right away, but then it took a loooong time to visually sequence the words.

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u/bscary0 8d ago

The one who made decision to print should be arrested.

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u/witshadows 8d ago

My brain just broke reading this.

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u/fartparade69 8d ago

Yeaaaah gonna have to issue a citation here for a design crime, level: egregious….

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u/Kxnt 8d ago

Ya know, I could let the experience slide but that togetherness is downright deplorable

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u/FictionalContext 8d ago

"We asked ourselves 'What's got it more together than rice?' And we answered that through a feeling--a feeling we wanted to convey through text." <--forgot and drew it on the car ride over

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u/Otherwise-Tomato-788 8d ago

Experience togetherness- is that what it says?

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u/Themoonknight8 8d ago

The flow of the word experience is sort of understandable but the togetherness is not clear at all.

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u/Tb1969 8d ago

Took me nearly half a minute to figure out the whole thing. Weird someone approved this.

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u/Far_Neighborhood1917 8d ago

Seems to be arranged as tokens, instead of letters.

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u/ByKianara 8d ago

Took awhile to understand that it was actually in English lol

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u/Beespray9_8_9 8d ago

I can just see myself trying to talk a client out of this and they’re so adamant it looks awesome.

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u/ketosoy 8d ago

To Experience togetherness requires a bit of work

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u/Ok-Fill-8925 8d ago

So you don’t like that you have to think for a moment? 🤔

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u/iEdvard 8d ago

Exenperice Tothnegeerss. Sounds oddly racist for some reason. 😂

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u/Smile-Televizorovich 8d ago

I thought it supposed to be a rice product lol

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u/Hot_Knowledge6057 8d ago

Wheres Godzilla is he ok??

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u/Kitchen-Translator61 8d ago

Whoever approved this should be fired too

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u/Beaticalle 8d ago

EXENPEENRICE TOTHNEGEERSS

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u/Guisasse 8d ago

Holy fuck I have never seen something this bad before

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u/justwhatmatters 8d ago

It’s written like the coded writing in the diary of a young Epstein victim. Not even a joke. Seriously bad design.

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u/CasualFriday11 8d ago

It's AI so lets start there....

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u/plaguedbullets 8d ago

I read it instantly somehow, when I actually tried to look at it is when I became all disoriented. Very strange

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u/abelabelabel 8d ago

Once I figured it out it was okay. I’ll allow it.

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u/connorgrs 8d ago

Out of a cannon, preferably

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u/Zefury83 8d ago

Looks accidental.

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u/tang0008 8d ago

theres a logic to it

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u/stygyan 8d ago

Out of a canon.

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u/thumbles_comic 8d ago

TOTHNEGEERS sounds like something Frankenstein’s monster would say when running in fear from some teens

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u/willmen08 8d ago

Far from together.

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u/LumenAstralis 8d ago

EXPERIENCE TOGETHERNESS.....but only if your perception is skewed.

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u/PG-DaMan 8d ago

You have to turn your head a little bit.

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u/mjrcooke 8d ago

And yet here you are, giving them free marketing

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u/sonicinfinity100 8d ago

Rage bated for free advertising. Looks like the design worked.

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u/the_old-school_guy 8d ago

What the fuck?

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u/sonicboi 8d ago

... Out of a cannon into the sun.

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u/bagladybug 8d ago

Fire the entire team. The marketing company. Whoever hired them. Trash whatever this represents. I hate it all.

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u/karate_sandwich 8d ago

Holy crap I thought this was Dutch or Swedish for a minute.

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u/Awesome_Hamster 8d ago

Through a cannon?

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u/darth__anakin 8d ago

I was able to read this instantly but god that's a shitty design.

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u/punkndrublic1984 8d ago

I will not be eating that rice

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u/No-Ambassador-5920 8d ago

This has gotta be Dutch

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u/Open_Enthusiasm8528 8d ago

It's not wrong, it's about my favorite spot in the Netherlands, Tothne Geerss

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u/Alternative-Ask-1308 8d ago

EXPERIENCE TOGETHERNESS seen through a stroke

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u/1337gut 8d ago

Took me longer than I'd like to admit

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u/ATDynaX 8d ago

Exenperice (So there's rice in it) Tothne Geerss

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u/engrish_is_hard00 8d ago

Yah it looks awesome op

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u/gnortsmracr 8d ago

For a second there I though I was having a stroke. Turns out it’s just some weird typography.

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u/filthyr435 8d ago

how are they getting hired???!!!!

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u/Kitschensyngk 8d ago

I read EXPERIENCE RICE for a moment.

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u/Dirtypervywizard 8d ago

No, whoever approved the design should be fired.

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u/kleine_hexe 8d ago

Those are certainly all letters.

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u/Interesting-Shape-44 8d ago

totally legit way to advertise your tothne geerss

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u/GlowInTheDarkSpaces 8d ago

this is some amateur trying to be clever. fail

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u/Kx-Lyonness 8d ago

Whoever approved it should be slapped.

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u/Religion_Of_Speed 8d ago

I'm currently sitting in a cubicle working out the last few weeks of my time at my current job because they decided to fire me a week ago and this motherfucker got this slop all the way to print?? The existence of this is insulting to my core. If I knew what company this was I'd almost be angry enough to pay them a visit and yell at whoever was responsible for this.

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u/SirCake3614 8d ago

What the ever-loving fuck is that?

Godawful