

The application’s target audience is Generation Z and users are encouraged to create 15-second videos on the platform. Soon after the acquisition, it merged its two social media platforms to create TikTok. The Chinese company released Douyin in 2016 and acquired Musical.ly for $1 billion in 2017. TikTok is a merged social media platform, which is owned by ByteDance. TikTok logo consists of three-color notes and these colors are neon black, blue, and red. It mainly focuses on a young audience and is a platform, where creative challenges are encouraged and popular. TikTok is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms with more than 800 million users per month. I know it's all a joke and it's developed into a hot marketing trend, but I'm still honored to be a part of it," she said.TikTok is a social app used to create-share videos, on any topic. "I've had a growing list of companies contacting me through DMs and email asking to be a part of the next few videos and to make logos for them. Viewers can expect more to come, with brands including Amazon, Disney Channel and Fenty Beauty all still requesting they be made over next in Zugay's comments. "What have I done?" said the text-to-speech generator, as she gasped and covered her mouth while showing TikTok's account, with her logo in use. The TikToker-cum-graphic designer shared her reaction to TikTok's new profile picture on her account.

The Washington Post, Tinder, Nascar, Tampax, the Detroit Lions and even TikTok's official accounts now display Zugay's redesign proudly. Nascar, Tampax, The Washington Post and Tinder all became subject to her design skills, with The Washington Post's logo being replaced with an image of President George Washington with stars around him.ĭespite misspellings of names, and mismatched shapes and colors, the brands loved their new logos, and even replaced their TikTok profile pictures with them. "After going through the comments, a lot of large brands reached out to me for new logos, so I said yes," she said in a September 16 video, with a deadpan tone. It wasn't long until the companies wanted in too, as they flooded Zugay's comments with requests to attempt their logos next. Those who were in on the joke, however, requested more, prompting a second video that gained over 10 million views and saw Zugay remake the logos of Target, TikTok and to here you go ♬ original sound - Emily’ The video racked up 12 million views, with a mixture of those who dubbed it "comedy genius" and those whose heads the joke went straight over. It's fun to pick apart famous logos and see how awful I can make them," she said. For example, if a logo is intended to look dainty or feminine, I want to make it chunky and heavy. "I just try to take all of the good aspects about the original logo design and portray the exact opposite. H&R Block ironically became a circle logo instead, because Zugay, "just hate the block," and Apple's logo became an orange square with the word "apple" in an awful font. Zugay redesigned it with Adobe Illustrator to two pastel stars overlapped on a purple circle with coffee spelled wrong, and ultimately looking like it was made on Microsoft Paint. My degree to use ♬ original sound - Emily’
