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haunterabout 3 hours ago
Easy mistake when there are 7 Allianz Stadiums in the world

https://www.allianz.com/en/about-us/brand/partnerships/stadi...

And it was probably 8 when they were designing the medal but Palmeiras didn't extend the naming rights contract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubank_Parque

jtari3333about 1 hour ago
Bayern Munich's stadium is one of the more famous in the world. More interesting that 0 people recognised it in the design process.
jfengelabout 1 hour ago
The US managed to issue a stamp with clearly the wrong Statue of Liberty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_Forever_stam...

Which presumably everyone in the design process should have recognized, if not practically everyone in the world.

The moral being, uh, it's weird how blind people can be when they're not looking for it.

zimpenfish4 minutes ago
To be fair, if I'm reading that right, the difference is "a small light patch on the middle spike"?[0] I can see people missing that easily enough!

[0] Absent contextual cues about height, location, etc., which aren't on the stamp

patrickmcnamaraabout 1 hour ago
Wow, the sculptor got 3.5 million USD for copyright infringement from his copycat statue.
AlexandrBabout 2 hours ago
I always thought these corporate naming deals for stadiums were gross. I remember when Canadian stadiums had names like "The Coliseum" and "The Skydome" instead of "The Roger's Center".
haunterabout 1 hour ago
Lower league european football kits are my favourite, there is a team behind the ads

https://files.catbox.moe/a3fxhw.webp

https://files.catbox.moe/0op34u.jpeg

dylan60420 minutes ago
That's the closest to Nascar I've seen yet. At the same time, I'm still a fan for the idea that elected officials should be forced to wear their sponsor's logos on their suits like this as well.
skrebbelabout 1 hour ago
My favourite is MAC³PARK Stadium, the home of FC Zwolle in Zwolle, the Netherlands.

It is named after MAC³PARK, a collection of extremely boring business parks (ie office buildings in an industrial zone). The business parks in question are in nowhere near Zwolle (for Dutch standards).

mzajcabout 2 hours ago
They remind me of the "Brought to You by Carl’s Jr" scenes from Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c
gizajobabout 1 hour ago
Year of the Depend adult undergarment.
noitpmederabout 1 hour ago
Brought to you by a burning desire to serve supremely my own interests.
c0baltabout 2 hours ago
E-Sports teams are still the funniest here. From Shopify Black/Rebellion Gold to T1.
sandworm101about 1 hour ago
"BC Place" is still BC Place. It was the only World Cup venue that didn't have to hang drapes over its real name.
walthamstowabout 2 hours ago
Wait til you see the names of the actual teams in the Japanese baseball league.
inopinatusabout 2 hours ago
Real pro cycling teams:

    SmartStop-Mountain Khakis p/b Jittery Joe's

    Bodysol EuroMillions Pôle Continental Wallon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_WorldTeam#2026 for this year's crop of linoleum manufacturers, insurance firms, and sportswashing petro-states.
masfuerteabout 2 hours ago
This Indian cricket team is splendidly named:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune_Warriors_India

Azurealisticabout 2 hours ago
Any examples?
sofixaabout 1 hour ago
I get why they do it, but at the very least it should be "sponsor name real name", not "sponsor name generic description of arena".

Spotify Camp Nou is annoying and worse than Camp Nou, but at least there is some soul and belonging. "Spotify Arena" would have been disgusting and empty.

It always boggles my mind when fans say "so and so at the AT&T stadium"... Until a new sponsor comes in.

dylan60411 minutes ago
>so and so at the AT&T stadium

In at least one town with a stadium of that name, most people do not refer to it by that name. Instead, it is referred to as Jerry's World for the owner of the franchise.

Concert venues are another naming rights area that is confusing. There's one in particular that has had its name changed so many times that I do not know what it is currently called. Instead, it is often referred to by the original sponsor by pretty much anyone of a certain age. Even if you call it the older name to younger people, they know which venue. Some names stick.

evnuabout 2 hours ago
The pun in this follow-up makes the whole mixup worthwhile: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4n4l1yyvro

"'We're not going to run from it': Sydney Marathon laughs off medal error"

phatfishabout 1 hour ago
I guess they are laughing it off because it was another Allianz sponsored stadium depicted, and they got the OK from Allianz to make the joke as it is free attention.

If the AI design had chosen a non-Allianz branded location I bet the response would be different.

MattRixabout 1 hour ago
The race has nothing to do with the stadium, other than running past it. They don’t have to get permission from anyone. Also, there’s no evidence that AI was involved, it could have just as easily been some designer googling for “Allianz Stadium” and illustrating the first thing that came up.
__s9 minutes ago
Years ago I was doing internal login pages for pay day loan insurance saas. Decided to put their logos to avoid mixups. Just googled. One was named Vision, copied logo from https://www.visions.ca figuring they did land on the side. Couple years later I realized my mistake & fixed, nobody else had said anything
netsharc37 minutes ago
Feels kind of pathetic high-schooler level response... "oh well, we're just going to laugh it off, please join us. Enjoy your sloppily* made medal!"

* whether AI-assisted or just lazy human slop that went unnoticed up all the chain.

My own footnote reminds me of this other slop: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-sout...

> It turned out some managers who approved the campaign never opened the email attachments showing the marketing material.

cjs_acabout 2 hours ago
The government of New South Wales (the Australian state of which Sydney is the capital) commissioned a corporate logo depicting a waratah (the NSW state flower) and got one showing a lotus. They still use it on everything.
jordanbabout 2 hours ago
"Good enough for Australia" is a phrase I frequently heard from Aussies. There seems to be this attitude there that they're a frontier country where one improvises (half asses?) everything.
gizajobabout 1 hour ago
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck." - coined by social critic and journalist Donald Horne in his 1964 book The Lucky Country.
contingencies2 minutes ago
On the subject of flowers, the late Donald was a friend of a family friend who came over one night and after drinking a huge amount of wine decided in a midnight fit of inspiration (when we'd all gone to bed) to rearrange flowers throughout the house. We woke up in the morning to find little bits of flowers everywhere except the vases! Sadly, she passed away recently but it became a running joke in the family. Good sorts.
shaknaabout 2 hours ago
Pretty much. A lot of the innovations of our nation, come from that. Things like utes, inflatable escape slides on planes, race cameras, are all "hacks".

But considering you can still see the gold mine which caused the foundation of my town, it isn't that surprising. We might not be the battlers we believe we are, but there's still a history of a people all around us.

crabmusketabout 1 hour ago
Wow, that always confused me since moving here. I thought I didn't know what a Waratah was, but no, it's the logo that's wrong.
contingencies8 minutes ago
jhyabout 2 hours ago
And they just flat out told everyone who pointed it out -- nope, you're looking at it wrong; and anyway we already paid those consultants so we'd better use it, what?
kgerminoabout 2 hours ago
Right there with the Milwaukee Marathon misspelling “Marathon” on their medals this year.

https://marathonhandbook.com/milwaukee-marathon-handed-out-4...

lateral_cloudabout 2 hours ago
Someone vibed the medal design
seydorabout 1 hour ago
Model bias towards northern hemisphere
thesdevabout 1 hour ago
You can tell it's an Aussie medal because all landmarks are depicted upside-down.
ablettererabout 2 hours ago
AI slop all the way up to the physical world :D
qurren35 minutes ago
Actually AI would have probably gotten it right.

The more likely explanation is that the person manually googled all the landmarks of Sydney to get some vector images to cut and paste into a CAD program to extrude, and accidentally got the wrong one.

jansanabout 1 hour ago
Allianz Marketing Head: My son's new favorite website is "Hackernews". They do not run ads, so how can we get the attention of their audience?
u89012about 1 hour ago
TCS. Say. no. more.