Facebook famously rebranded this week, bringing all of its acquired properties like Instagram, Whatsapp, and  Occulus under the same umbrella brand called ‘Meta’.   A bit like what ‘Alphabet’ is to Google, only somehow much more toxic.

The ‘Meta’ promotional videos were blasted around the internet and starred Mark Zuckerberg, doing his best impression of a human being.

But by far, the most entertaining part of this corporate exercise were the memes created to lampoon the new brand:

There were many plays on the word ‘Meta’:

Metal

Keta

Feta

And perhaps the most popular:

Some people went for Acronyms:

I do agree with that 🤣🤣🤣 and that’s what Meta stands for pic.twitter.com/S1Y6RJEIBO

— BristolBlues50 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (@BBlues50) November 2, 2021

Little Gifs showing how normal Zuckerberg appears:

Mark Zuckerberg absolutely nailing how a normal human answers a doorbell #zuckerbergmemes

pic.twitter.com/xWthdHxHi1

— Mark Zuckerberg Memes (@ZuckerbergMemes) October 29, 2021

There was an unsurprising amount of meta penis plays;

There were some memes playing with the logo itself:

Comparisons to other rebrands:

And Opinions about big tech in general:

I think we should all settle on this – the new #BigTech acronym should be #MANGA (Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Apple) pic.twitter.com/OWxbW53uJy

— Jakub Klapka (@jakubklapka) October 31, 2021

If you’d like to make your own meta meme, here’s the template:

Meanwhile, there is already a company called ‘Meta’, and reportedly they are asking Facebook for $20 Million to buy the trademark from them.

“The founders of custom PC producer ‘Meta’, filed for a trademark on the name on August 23, covering computer-related goods and services, including peripherals, servers, networking equipment, notebooks, tablets, and components. This is well before any rumors of Facebook shifting to Meta materialized.”

I doubt this will slow down the “Metaverse”, Facebook made $85.9 billion in 2020…