Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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In many parts of the world Whatsapp is the dominate communication platform. My landlord sends me my utility bills through WhatsApp, as is my doctor's scheduling platform, and my vet's contact info, etc. It's basically impossible to do things without it.
Probably because "Network effect". Many places whatsapp is basically the texting app and you are fucking forced to use it
Seriously this. Fuck Meta and shame on OP. There are much less evil VoIP apps available.
It’s messaggio!
Everyone, messaggio has come to see us!
FIFA ball does not look happy
If you see it as pointing to the right it looks pretty content, actually.
Not to you, to meme OP
OH NO!
Anyway, who cares?
If this is the shit you care about you need to spend less time on your phone
Honestly, who cares? Use it or don't.
Why is there a lime green baseball?
It's a softie for the ladies
Kind of weird how the ladies ball is bigger. We have smaller hands. Ours should be smaller.
WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you
You got advertising in my data scraping app!
Haha. What a joke.
Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?
Because in my country historically the telecom companies are charging 0.30€ per SMS (text) and 2€ per MMS (text with photo).
So WhatsApp when they launched with their "1€/lifetime" offer on the iPhone 3GS they were the right app at the right time and became the de facto replacement for any kind of messaging. It's insane how basically overnight they replaced msn messenger and Skype because it was so convenient (Microsoft never did a smartphone client for msn messenger, only unofficial ones. It was available on dumbphones but it used SMS from the plan to send/receive, nobody used it because you needed to be a millionaire to afford it)
SMS now in my country is only for receiving OTP codes, for the rest is WhatsApp, because still in 2026 the telecoms are still charging 2€ for each MMS sent and nobody wants to risk huge bills. This includes iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn't notice, it costs dozens of euro
iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn't notice, it costs dozens of euro
There’s a setting in iOS to disable that from happening btw
Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages 'ride' on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are 'free' from the infrastructure point of view.
Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you'll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.
Well Signal would be pretty much the same as WhatsApp, it sends over internet not mms or sms
The problem is that everyone assumes you have WhatsApp.
You take clothes to the laundry? The "your order is done" notification is sent via WhatsApp
Any kind of work stuff is also on WhatsApp
You order food delivery? WhatsApp
Amazon started to send delivery notifications via WhatsApp instead of email/sms
And luckily meta is charging businesses 5 cents for messages via API or otherwise even otp codes would be via whatsapp
At least here, being reachable only on signal means being a digital exile
Network effects
I know we're all saying network effects, but I don't know what the fuck network effects means.
Network effects dude. Network effects.
It's a simple concept.
You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.
One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.
The other only has Whatsapp.
They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.
Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it's just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.
those flags that ships used to communicate.
i think those are called semaphore and they're cool as hell. i have a set of flags around here somewhere
because it's the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries
So?
sometimes you want to sent text messages to normal people
I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.
I don't get to choose what app my European friends use
But you get to choose what app you use. And if they continue to support fascism you have to decide if you want those kind of friends.
random european "i use whatsapp because it's kind of the default app for a lot of things in my country"
you "fascist"
you see why i might not take you seriously?
Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
So what? Don't support fascism.
changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.
Sounds great - if I wasn't already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁
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