Tuesday, June 21, 2022

chokolo.sony/u

This was the name of a Sony-owned YouTube competitor in a dream. I read the sentence, “I was unable to find the video either on YouTube or on chokolo.sony/u.”

I thought, That’s terrible branding. They should just call it Chokolo.

The name was pronounced “Chuckalo dot Sony slash u.” The logo resembled familiar cartoon representations of the birdemic virus.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Based perhaps on the Chocobo birds from the Final Fantasy games on Playstation.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Unlikely, as I've never heard of them, have never used a Playstation, and know nothing about Final Fantasy but the name.

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