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Amazon changes its logo AGAIN after it was trolled for ‘looking like Adolf Hitler’
AMAZON has changed its logo AGAIN after it was trolled for “looking like Adolf Hitler”.
The new design is tweaked to remove any similarity to former Nazi chief.
Amazon’s revamped logo looked like the smile and trimmed moustache of Hitler, according to social media jokesters[/caption]
Amazon’s mobile logo has looked rubbish for years, so a new version was rolled out in January.
The image was meant to resemble one of the US shopping giant’s brown delivery boxes emblazoned with its “smile” logo.
But jokesters on social media thought the new logo looked just like a grinning Fuhrer.
Now Amazon has tweaked the logo’s “moustache” to make it look a little less Third Reich.
Thankfully, the new logo looks a lot less like Hitler[/caption]
A strip of the firm’s recognisable bright blue tape spills over the top of the box. A handful of Twitter users saw the icon a little differently, however.
They reckoned the symbol looked like the bottom half of Hitler’s face, with the tape representing the genocidal dictator’s famous trimmed moustache.
“Amazon isn’t pulling any punches with its new Hitler-stache logo, eh?” one tweeter wrote on Tuesday.
Another Twitter dweller – tongue firmly in cheek – said: “Amazon needs to rethink this logo, or there will be Heil to pay.
Twitter users made the unflattering comparison after Amazon began rolling out the new app icon to iPhones this week[/caption]
Netizens reckon the symbol looks like the bottom half of Hitler’s face, with the tape representing his infamous trimmed moustache[/caption]
“They’ll feel the Führer of social media anger over this. It will Reich their credibility.”
They added: “Seriously, though, who approved Smiling Mouth And Hitler ‘Stache as a new logo for Amazon?”
Amazon’s old icon design showed a blue shopping cart with the company’s logo plastered above it.
The Seattle firm has now begun rolling out the revamped one to iPhones. It appears in the app’s listing on Apple’s UK App Store.
The app icon gave Twitter users a good chuckle[/caption]
While some people have compared the design to a tyrant responsible for the deaths of millions, others have showered it with praise.
“Nice job, good looking icon,” one Twitter user posted.
Another wrote: “I personally am able to forgive Amazon of their crimes against humanity now that they have such an adorable logo.”
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.
Amazon’s old icon design showed a blue trolley with the company’s logo plastered above it[/caption]
It’s not the first logo gaffe pulled in recent years.
A council in Lancashire axed a newly unveiled logo in 2014 because it looked like the trademark of an online store selling sex toys.
The design featuring a stylised heart was meant to mark the 40th anniversary of the local authority in the town of Pendle.
But it was ditched after critics slammed its similarity to the logo used by erotica business Lovehoney.
Councillor Ken Hartley said the thought of seeing it all over town had him “reaching for blood pressure medication”.
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