This 'brand logo' is despicable? (Possible TW)

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Apparently theyre called 'Aape' but you can clearly see that they have changed the first 'A' to have a little flick coking off it that clearly makes it look like an 'R'.

If they're both 'A's why are they different? Theyre all capitals so its not lower case.

Who would wear this shit??

Yeah that's exactly what came to mind for me as well.

Nathan Barley has turned out to be depressingly prophetic. Not surprising really that Charlie Brooker went on to do Black Mirror.

The other one whose comedy turned into prophecy is Ben Elton - climate change as retail opportunity and billionaires building space rockets to escape it.

Who is one meant to write to to complain, the Grooming Gang Union?

Remember the photo of Dolce & Gabanna simulating a gang rape as attractive. That was the day I swore I would never ever buy anything of that brand again. They thrive on a little controversy, then pretend it never happened.

If you sell 100 pieces of clothing with your brand name on, the right number for the name to look like the word "rape" is precisely zero. This isn't a mistake they should be making even just once. Especially if they are (or aspire to be) a well-known quality brand: this sort of thing should be picked up well before the item goes into production.

Exactly. I read 'rape', as would most people. The double aa doesn't really crop up in English. The company knows what it's doing, it's deliberate.

I can't get too worked up about it. Scunthorpe is still on the map and on roadsigns and that has the actual c-word in it. The AAPE logo is just a bad font.

No it isn’t. It clearly looks like rape.

Never heard of that brand, though I’m quite old.

think yourself lucky - perhaps you have never seen one, so can’t relate?

It was a male pointed this particular logo out in a group (conspiracy theory) conversation about hidden signs, symbols, logo, be they Masonic or other
secret societies, fraternities, many of which are hidden-in-plain-sight,
on buildings, coats-of-arms, how we build sensory associations,
subliminal imagery, seen in the film of the man in the bear suit walking across
a room full of people which observers deny yet swear the same in woodlandis
a real yeti
visual manipulation, jingles, the insidious development of the Nike tick,
the human brain as computer does not always allow us to see, recognise, acknowledge what is presented before us as often, we see what we want to see
which isn’t always there anyway

No, you'll be wanting Bad Dragon for that.

Anyone who goes on about Masonic symbols actually saves you a lot of time, because you know that everything else they're going to tell you about is a pile of bollocks that doesn't require your attention.

Seriously, step away from the University of Facebook.

in your bombastic opinion

I am not on Facebook
I am describing part of a fascinating lecture on mindbending

no one of my conversational acquaintance ‘goes on’ about
Masonic symbols or anything else

neither would they completely misconstrue a narrative

I'd never heard of it either but you really can't dispute that that logo looks like the word rape.
I would be horrified if any of my boys chose to wear that.

There's a plasterers van that drives round where I live with the brand name 'Spread It And Lay It'. They know what they're doing too.

It was pretty obvious it was i'n my opinion' because I posted it.

Not sure you know what 'bombastic' means, but it's got that song in my head and I'm quite enjoying it, so thanks in any case.

I showed the the photo and said 'What does that say?'

They all said Rape and was confused about it being on a jacket.

Likewise. And it certainly reads as 'Rape' to me.

Looks like RAPE to me.

We have Sofa King.

Our prices are Sofa King good!

Actually I think they had to stop, but it took about 10 years went viral before anybody 'in charge' noticed.
They sold sofas. I couldn't comment on the quality.

I know nothing of the brand - I don’t think it’s aimed at me tbh.

however, it’s nonsense to say that the first “a’ doesn’t look more like an r. It definitely Italy doesn’t match the second a in the logo

Do you not think the logo reads as RAPE?

I dont know how anyone can read it as anything else? If it was AAPE the first 2 letters would be identical.

And that font was consciously chosen. A capital A is not normally so rounded that it might be an R.

@Lookingtomakechanges

'Do you not think the logo reads as RAPE?'

No, not one of the garments displaying the AAPE logo looks like RAPE.

I've shown it around and no one else thinks it does and they've rolled their eyes when I've said it's been mistaken for the word RAPE.

Come on.