Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
How is that shit different from Discord shitty server exclusive emojis. This crap is so... exhausting
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?
To communicate with people who aren't tech nerds, i.e. majority of the population.
I switched off an my parents, grandparents and siblings all switched to signal with me.
I'm not saying everyone can or will, but it may be easier that we think.
I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.
Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet...
Good for you :)
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Greetings from most EU countries.
Doesnt really change what I said. I have to deal with it too, I just could never support meta. Isn't always easy.
In many parts of the world Whatsapp is the dominate communication platform. My landlord sends me my utility bills through WhatsApp, as is my doctor's scheduling platform, and my vet's contact info, etc. It's basically impossible to do things without it.
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Probably because "Network effect". Many places whatsapp is basically the texting app and you are fucking forced to use it
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WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you
⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.
The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.
Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:
Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!
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Dammmmn, that's an ugly ball. Let's call it the Curseball Games insted.
(Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one's a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can't say the same for most of the recent ones, it's all a blur to me!)
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
So what? Don't support fascism.
changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Sounds great - if I wasn't already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁
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I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.
I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.
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You got advertising in my data scraping app!
It's about a hunnert billionaires banding together...c'mon we can take 'em all down! Let's Robin Hood all those motherfuckers!
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Also, what is that... what appears to be a baseball, but green with red stitching?
Seems to be a softball
Well there's your problem. You're using messenger and emojis.
Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.
Fucking disgusting, really. Piece of shit app.
Not to you, to meme OP
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