Twitter, every site’s favorite source for quickly dashed out collections of free jokes, is struggling. User growth is stagnant, there’s no clear way to make money off of it, and the company seems almost completely uninterested in stopping the site’s rampant harassment problem. There’s a host of problems plaguing the social media site right now, so when Twitter started work on its latest update, the goal was clear: make everything look slightly different.
A new update to Twitter’s user interface was surprisingly revealed this morning, and all it pretty much does is change a font and a few icons, and shave the edges off the user photo. Instead of the squares of old, all avatars are now set in bubbly little circles. For a site with a rep for helping hate speech flourish, it’s a curiously insignificant change to prioritize.
Don’t take our word for it, though. Twitter has been full of hilarious comments about this completely pointless change all day long. Here are the funniest of ‘em all.
This hasn’t shown up on mine yet but I look forward to everyone’s classic non-hysterical reaction to a Twitter design change pic.twitter.com/rKXKB30LyG
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) June 15, 2017
Actual footage of a @Twitter engineer flipping the “Shit Design” switch pic.twitter.com/k1JsMdCTVc
— Adam Wilson ????? (@theleanover) June 15, 2017
twitter just be changing shit for no reason
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) June 15, 2017
Twitter Announces Plan To Deal With Harassment Threats By Using The Spongebob Cartoonists To Redesign Site
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) June 15, 2017
People think twitter is “too harsh,” how can we solve that?
Better privacy and group settings.
Absolutely not.
….squircles?
Yes.— BooDoo (@BooDooPerson) June 15, 2017
Don’t get me wrong, all versions of Twitter are horrible and soon this will all be over.
— Kibblesmith ?? (@kibblesmith) June 15, 2017
Wowee guys the Twitter UI looks great. Good job everybody. pic.twitter.com/4J9wnoVNRz
— brendon b ???? (@brendonbouzard) June 15, 2017
what happened recently that made Twitter so obsessed with rounded edges and circular design pic.twitter.com/w2kD4IbUC9
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) June 15, 2017
Oh man Twitter turned us all into pogs!
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) June 15, 2017
Users: it would be cool if you took steps to address harassment & abuse@Twitter: We’re taking it seriously. Here’s some fresh typography!
— Hanna Brooks Olsen (@mshannabrooks) June 15, 2017
Nice to see Twitter isn’t too busy ignoring a harassment crisis and electing demagogues to make their windows a little more rounded.
— Dan Telfer (@dantelfer) June 15, 2017
Twitter rolling out new updates like… pic.twitter.com/eumKdeX9HB
— LARIATOOOO!!! (@MrLARIATO) June 15, 2017
Finally, Twitter did something about Nazis and took away the thing they love most: right angles.
— Nick Ross (@NickBossRoss) June 15, 2017
Twitter finally cracked down on the thing that’s been making it a nightmare to use and which we’ve all been begging them to remove: corners.
— the bodyslam politic (@joe___nelson) June 15, 2017
The new Twitter UI aims to turn every one of us into guests on The Love Boat. pic.twitter.com/Tjfso1R6LN
— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) June 15, 2017
Twitter is the absolute best at updates that make everyone go “wow, this is the least important change they could have possibly made.”
— Johnny McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) June 15, 2017
twitter: what do you want
users: stop banning people for standing up to assholes
twitter: everything is bubbles now— merritt k (@merrittk) June 15, 2017
the Twitter UI changes are actually good because they make this place look like a weirdly pro-fascist version of Pop-Up Video
— spicy meat cylinder (@jimpjorps) June 15, 2017
old twitter vs new twitter pic.twitter.com/Ct4JC3UM5o
— Ellie Sunakawa (@elliesunakawa) June 15, 2017