Is it shallow, or petty, to decide based on name alone? Yeah, pretty much, but there’s probably something, a product or service or site, that the name has made you gloss right over it or jump to it ASAP.

What are some examples that spring to mind for you?

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
    341·
    10 months ago

    I avoided the Instant Pot for a long time because it sounded cheap and all those functions couldn’t possibly work well.

    I was wrong. I was so wrong.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Let me get this straight, this machine makes yogurt but one of the ingredients required is yogurt? That’s revolutionary.

          • 0xD@infosec.pub
            2·
            10 months ago

            You need like two tablespoons of yoghurt per liter of milk. Just cook the milk beforehand and let it cool to about 45°C. Mix in the yoghurt and put it in an oven with the light on for a few hours. Voilà!

  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    Warby Parker. Something about the name just completely frosts me. I know I should grow up and give them a chance (because Luxotica is fucking evil). But it really turns me off. “Warby Parker”…sounds like the name of some kid who’s dad owns racehorses.

    • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      I think part of the reason I use Zenni Optical online is because Warby Parker sounds like a place that’ll offer grandma glasses for stupid-expensive prices.

      • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        I tried Zenni a couple of times. Really wanted to like them. But the glasses they sent me were horrible. I do have a somewhat complex prescription, though. I suspect for basic prescriptions they are OK.

        • Bye@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          Mine are basic and yes, zenni crushes it every time. I even get my phone number lazered into the ear thingies so that people can call me if I lose them.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      This is hilarious because it invokes same exact feeling for me when I hear the name. It just screams “New York socialite.”

      • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Glad I’m not the only one. I am highly averse to anything that sounds like a “lifestyle brand”. Hollister and such. I’ll never understand people who wear expensive brand name t-shirts and provide free advertising for giant corporations. Ryan George made a pretty funny YouTube video about this strange phenomenon.

  • Buck Fucket@lemmy.world
    212·
    10 months ago

    When I shop on Amazon and see the obvious China companies that sell the same product but have the strangest names. Definitely avoid those products. If I see a.company only ships via fedex, I avoid doing business with that company. Dang, I know I have more just can’t think of them right now with morning brain.

    Edit: I avoid many major brands too. I belive them to be selling because of the name alone rather than having a quality product anymore. Dr Scholls is one of those,

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      They’re all random names consisting of 7 capital letters too DINGBAO, VXSUFEN, WEGTHOS, etc.

    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      yeah, I do still buy from Chinese companies sometimes, but only if they are smart enough to use a name that doesn’t sound like someone just used a random password generator and said “good enough”… or … whatever the Cantonese equivalent of “good enough” is, I suppose.

  • octoperson@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    10 months ago

    I lived in a city, had occasional need for a car. A car club would have been ideal. Don’t need to spend thousands on a car upfront, don’t need to deal with maintenance, don’t need to secure parking.

    Problem? The only car club in town was called whizzgo. Like, a toddler word for urination. Written on all the cars in big colourful letters. No thanks.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
      153·
      10 months ago

      …Are you aware that “über” is a normal German word meaning “over”?

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
        75·
        10 months ago

        Yes, ubermensch is a loanword in English, favored by cringy edgelords like the founder of Uber.

        • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
          61·
          10 months ago

          Do you have a source for your claim that Uber is named after “übermensch”? I couldn’t find it anywhere. Some webpages say that it’s just named after the prefix „über-“.

  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world
    141·
    10 months ago

    I thought Fight Club was a boxing movie and had no interest in seeing it. I only saw it because I tried downloading Jackass on Kazaa and it ended up being Fight Club. The intro had me hooked.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    132·
    10 months ago

    Any product name which starts with “smart” or ends with “maker”.

    Both are just e-waste OOTB.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    188·
    10 months ago

    So easy! Whatsapp!

    Dumbest. Name. Ever.

    So hopelessly of its time, namely that moment when the word “app” was the coolest thing ever among normies because iPhone.

    And, cherry on the top, coined by geeks with language skills so poor that they thought “app” rhymes with “up”, which it absolutely does not to anyone who speaks English properly.

    What an embarrassingly dumb name.

    • Globulart@lemmy.world
      92·
      10 months ago

      I appreciate what you’re saying, but given the literal billions of users I’d say they absolutely nailed it.

      • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 months ago

        If you want to make money hand-over-fist , you can’t shy away from the “normies.” IMO, using “normies” unironically is way more cringe.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    81·
    10 months ago

    For 3 or 4 seasons I completely ignored Game of Thrones - the name just threw me off. To some extend I’m happy I did - there was a lot of content to catch up to when I finally did give the first episode a shot :)

  • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    10 months ago

    Does judging books by their cover count? Seems like in the same vein…

    In the 90s, I avoided Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series books because the Baen covers were awful, and at the time she hadn’t written books for any other publisher so I didn’t get introduced to her via that route. In the 2010s I finally read her books…and I was mad as hell that they’d put such ugly covers on them back in the day, because I would’ve been crazy about this series in the 90s!

    • ellabee@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      10 months ago

      in the same vein, I’m so glad they reprinted Glen Cook’s Black Company books, because no one I tried to get interested in them would read them with the old covers. I’m not sure even I did. I certainly can’t imagine I deliberately chose to pick up a book with this cover.

        • ellabee@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          10 months ago

          I used to! I picked up a set of Black Co at a used book store to try and loan out. finally didn’t come back after I “lost” the cover and apologized for the state of the book I was loaning. but got another convert, so a win in my book.

  • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been playing World of tanks blitz. I had fun, then discovered there is a world of warships blitz as well, which has a Dutch line of ships. It was the 1st game I heard of with Dutch content, so I’m now kinda hooked on it, chasing after all Dutch ships. It wasn’t exactly the name of the game, but more the hint of the content.

    BTW I’m Dutch, when you haven’t guessed it already. ;)