Amazon has changed the new logo of its smartphone app after users said the initial version reminded them of a smirking Adolf Hitler.
The sales giant recently ditched its old logo, featuring the familiar symbol of a shopping cart, in favour of a brown Amazon box with a piece of tape with a jagged edge at the top.
But combined with the smile-shaped arrow which also forms part of Amazon's branding, the tape looked like it could be part of a face - with what some shoppers thought was an uncomfortable resemblance to the dictator's distinctive moustache.
Amazon changes logo icon after comparisons to Adolf Hitler https://t.co/j4EUkZ6sWc
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The logo has since been changed again, with the tape now folded over in one corner and straight around the edges rather than jagged.
One user noticed the dubious logo on Sunday, saying: 'Well it happened.. my Amazon app icon finally updated to the cardboard Hitler'.
Another shopper responded: 'I had to go download the app on my phone, to see what you were talking about and now I can't unsee it.'
'I'm not gonna lie, I'm uncomfortable with having the Amazon logo sport a Hitler 'tache on my phone screen,' said another customer.
'What was wrong with the shopping cart logo?'.
Some users quipped that they could not believe that Amazon did 'Nazi' the problem or that there would be 'Heil to pay' if they failed to fix their logo.
'Seriously, though, who approved Smiling Mouth And Hitler 'Stache as a new logo for Amazon?,' asked one user.
Amazon did not comment directly on the Hitler comparison but said it had made changes to its initial design based on customer feedback.
'Amazon is always exploring new ways to delight our customers,' a company spokesperson told The Verge.
“The mobile app icon is designed to be instantly recognizable to our customers around the world,” Amazon told Snopes in an email. https://t.co/mPMVnI4JQ7
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'We designed the new icon to spark anticipation, excitement, and joy when customers start their shopping journey on their phone, just as they do when they see our boxes on their door step.'
One shopper said the new logo reminded them, less offensively, of the character Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Amazon's logo joins a list of unexpected items including a house in Swansea, a pair of Puma trainers and the door of a sports centre that reminded people of Hitler.
The website Cats That Look Like Hitler was a late-2000s sensation for displaying pictures of pets with just the right black-and-white fur.
Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos said in a 2018 interview that he tells his Amazon employees to 'look in a mirror and decide, are your critics right?'.
'If they are, change. Don't resist,' Bezos said, adding that Amazon executives 'would be very naive' not to expect criticism of the firm.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
