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It makes perfect sense. Names are incredibly important to widespread adoption. As are pleasing colors.
Many people don’t know what a Stoat is, or that it’s an animal. A meaningless nonsense word (In the mind of a normie) will not drive them to use it.
So your argument is that people are stupid so they should change the name. That's not very compelling imo. Most tech names are nonsense to average person, yet they succeeded just fine.
It’s not a question of intelligence, it’s a question of recognition and partiality.
That explains why nobody has consulted you before launching a brand.
On the contrary, most successful tech names are very recognizable and attractive to the average person, and the ones that weren’t were less likely to succeed. Facebook, Twitter, InstaGram, Windows, Apple, Amazon, Snapchat, TikTok all are very recognizable words or portmanteaus of descriptive words that are attractive to average users and are meant to convey a specific emotion or feeling. Meanwhile it’s been years since Twitter changed its name to X and yet nobody calls it that, and everybody still calls posts on that platform “Tweets”.
Like, this billion dollar industry doesn’t cease to be so because you personally don’t find it compelling lol.
It is a question of intelligence if you've never heard of a fucking stoat before.
It is not. Stoats are not a very commonly talked about animal species. Their name isn’t even consistent across regions.
I had to look up what a Stoat even was because I only know them as Ermine, and in North America it’s called a short tailed Weasel. It’s not an animal you’re likely to even see much as they are rarely kept in captivity, and aren’t something you’re very likely to see in the wild in NA even though they’re native here. They have precious little pop culture representation either.
Then you're exactly the kind of person I'm talking about. Fucking touch grass.
Yes I am one of the vast majority of people who don’t have a very strong association with one of the several different names for one of the worlds less distinct animals.
And unless Stoat the software is content with appealing only to a few galaxy brained individuals like yourself and dying in obscurity, they would be smart to pick a more marketable name. One that has universal understanding and appeal, very simple concept. Or at least one that sounds better to the ear.