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I think we just keep the N in there so it's less awkward to say.



With the rebranding of Facebook, we could go for MANGA, but dropping the "N" would still have an interesting result.


You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.


In my part of the world that would be inner sheep.


Facebook is now Meta, Google is now Alphabet, Netflix is now just another independent movie/TV studio. FAANG has become a term entirely independent of what it originally stood for (also "MAAA" doesn't have the same ring to it).


I think it works. Just think of it as a family with a troublemaker kid.

MAAA! THEY'RE DOIN STUPID STUFF AGAIN AND THEY WON'T LET ME USE MY COMPUTER!


As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.


You don't hear "Alphabet" a lot. MAGMA works


FAANG simply reflects what those companies are actually called. Most people don't say "Meta", they say "Facebook". And Google is still Google, they never changed names (they invented a parent company but still kept the name).


MAAAM or MAMAA


It would be quite the GAAF




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