YouTuber MKBHD (Marques Brownlee), sparked controversy and backlash after launching ‘Panels,’ a subscription-based, HD wallpaper app for phones.

Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a “50$ a year” subscription to a “wallpaper” app.

Interesting points about the “app”:

  • the app has premium and free wallpapers
  • the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
  • in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
  • theres a wallpaper called “orange” thats just the color orange
  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    honestly, samesies

    I’m kinda taken aback at how many people are popping in saying they have such things. at almost all usage times I can barely see my bloody wallpaper, too much else going on/present

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I always have my windows tiled or maximized so I just keep an epty black desktop background.

      My wallpaper is white and subtly stripe patterned and it was in a surprisingly good condition when I moved in.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        mine’s xsetroot -solid black so I don’t get a flash of the 80s in the moments before emacs loads and tiles its windows across my displays

        it used to be a color I stole from the Amiga’s boot ROM for diagnostic purposes (I was going to do something like the Amiga’s diagnostics for my setup, where you could tell roughly what was broken by the color of the screen) and really I should revisit that one day

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      My wallpaper is the january page of a frieren themed calendar. From 2021. I only remembered what it was today after learning about all this