Has anyone told them

@jonty

There's a hole world of problems there

@jonty oh god

@jonty Free business idea: Photoshop AI plugin to detect if your logo looks like this

@jonty goatse.eu?

@jonty I scan-read that as "ream europe" at first, and it seemed bad but fitting.
"re arm europe" on the other hand, is using Bad and Wrong imagery references :/

@jonty Yeah, they forgot two fingers.

@jonty Oh no!!!

@jonty OH NO

@jonty another fine example of the EU being lead by technoilliterati.

at least this one is funny.

@jonty
I have to work and I can't think of anything but this x_x

@jonty oh my.

@jonty oh my oh no

@jonty someone HAD to have done this on purpose and no one noticed

@jonty #TheyKnew

@jonty @cstross oh no

@jonty this oddly feels like a big "Fuck you" to American, like Europe is gaping their arse at them in defiance.

I would feel insulted if somebody gaped me in anger, there's no response to that, none.....

@jonty oh no

@jonty i am SURE they knew exactly what they were doing

@jonty The future is wide open

@jonty

@jonty
Nobody told me, it appears. What am I missing?

@jonty they're putting themselves in the position to ask

@jonty

Message is clear. We're fucked.

@jonty It took me a few seconds 😂

@jonty
Literally my reaction 😅

@jonty oh fuck, once you see it, you can't unsee it

@jonty

Looks like they posted it on mastodon too now: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114116208803213690

@jonty That design is the Greatest Of All Time

@jonty European politics are beyond crazy. Arm? Really?! Next time they'll invested in H-bomb as well. Ugh 😒😤😒

@jonty epic!

@jonty what are those fingers and stripes doing

@jonty ....OH GODDAMNIT

@jonty okay, there is simply no way some social media intern, having gotten away with it, isn’t hugely laughing right now

@jonty why are there fingers???

@celesteh @jonty thank you, this comment was just enough to make me understand :)

@tobyjaffey @jonty Or just show an image to a group of teenagers and watch their reaction.

@jonty you'll be able to fit your whole arm in europe once they're done

@infoseclogger @jonty welcoming arms manufacturers to fill the gaping holes in EU's armed forces with some big guns? 😬

@G33KatWork @jonty And the ring on one of them.

@G33KatWork @jonty and the ring

@Linza @jonty well it certainly grabs one's ... attention

@liaizon @jonty what am I missing? I feel like an idiot...

@ada @jonty
Just like with the Nokia N-Gage
https://www.cracked.com/article_34309_nokias-failed-gaming-console-was-designed-to-look-like-goatse-the-worlds-worst-meme.html

@liaizon
Now I can't unsee.
@jonty

@sindarina @jonty 🤯 I needed the alt text to get it even though I designed a custom emoji recently to be able to comment on politics adequately.

@jonty

I was in the middle of typing up a post saying that i couldn't see it on their mastodon account and wondering if it means they decided to delete it or what and then refreshed the page and there it was

@Amoshias @jonty if you dont know you are lucky. I wouldn't wish this knowledge on anyone

@Amoshias @liaizon @jonty The composition of the picture is strongly reminiscent of an old Internet meme called "Goatse", which is a picture of a man's distorted anus, pulling his hole appart using his hands.

In the rearm Europe picture, the circle of star has the same position as the anus, and the hands applying war paint are in a similar position to the ones keeping the anus open in the goatse picture.

@chris_e_simpson @celesteh @jonty Same, I saw war paint and didn't even think of goats.ex

@liaizon @Amoshias @jonty

I feel tempted of replying with a picture of what we are thinking...

@pirrata @Amoshias @jonty please do not

@liaizon @Amoshias @jonty

@pirrata @liaizon @Amoshias @jonty
Exactly the same...

@jonty pretty sure they know and just want to extend their social media reach

@jdechko @tobyjaffey @jonty teenagers are not old enough to get this reference

@tedmielczarek @jdechko @tobyjaffey @jonty I thought it looked like someone with long yellow fingernails holding open their blue butthole, I think most teenagers would agree

@apophis @jonty
Context would have helped. 🤔
Posting a link with something like that just appears to be trolling (and we are all a little gun-shy these days with all the jerks on the internet - I promise I'm not one).

For the record, I'm still not sure what this is all about.
I apologize for taking that reply the wrong way.
I'm moving on from this, as I doubt anyone is going to take the time to actually explain it to me.