29 People Who Realized Famous Logos Are Not What They Always Thought They Were

Logos—they’re the concentrated sweat and tears of brilliant artists crafting away to create the ‘perfect’ image representing their client’s brand. After hours and days of toil, deleted drafts, and angry coffee breaks, the final version’s ready. It’s being rolled out worldwide… and that’s when thousands of people report seeing a completely different image than they intended.

When Headspace content director Freddie Campion shared how his wife had thought that Colonel Sanders had a stick body instead of a bowtie in the KFC logo, other Twitter users pitched in with their own hilarious misinterpretations of well-known logos. Check ‘em out below and upvote your fave tweets, dear Pandas. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you—you’ll have a hard time unseeing these! Be sure to share your own misunderstood logo moments in the comments.

This isn’t the first time that Bored Panda has written about people misinterpreting the KFC logo and the stick body now being seared into our minds for a long, long time. I’d forgotten all about it a few months after learning the truth, but Freddie brought everything back. And I knew just who to talk to about all of this. Curious? Read on!

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Elsker 3 years ago

that's a really pretty logo!!

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Carmen Elena 3 years ago

I have to confess I saw a high-five guy too...

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Average Grizzlies Fan 3 years ago

I never noticed it until I watched a video on hidden things in logos.

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Bored Panda spoke about Freddie’s thread with comedy writer, author, and musical comedian Ariane Sherine, who had previously gone viral for her tweet about her friend misinterpreting the KFC logo as well. Twitter users brought Freddie’s thread to her attention as well.

I was incredibly curious to find out whether Freddie’s wife was Ariane’s friend. It sounded like too much of a coincidence. Maybe this was a sign from the Universe? Alas! Ariane confirmed to Bored Panda that there’s no connection between her friend and Freddie.

“They’re clearly kindred spirits though! I should hook them up (though Freddie’s wife might not like that much!),” Ariane joked.

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Ola Polowczyk 3 years ago

Fair point. In cartoons, the dead characters have eyes like that.

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Megan Curl 3 years ago

That’s adorable.

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Average Grizzlies Fan 3 years ago

A very polygonal strawberry.

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I wanted to find out the best way to make myself forget that Colonel Sanders looks like he has a stick body and Ariane made my day with her quips. “Why try to unsee the stick body? Just accept it. Colonel Sanders is like a stick because he doesn’t eat his own products! That is not the body of a man who has eaten much fried chicken,” she shared.

Unfortunately, acceptance seems like the only path forward, dear Readers. Hopefully, we’ll forget all about stick-Sanders over the next few months… until someone else makes a viral thread about the logo. With Freddie’s thread having gotten over 425k likes, KFC couldn’t ask for better exposure.

According to Comedian Ariane, logo designers can try and minimize the chances of their illustrations being misinterpreted by running them past as many people as possible. The bigger the pool, the bigger the chance of spotting that something’s off. However, Ariane hopes they don’t do that because then there’d be no hilarious misunderstandings.

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Lisa 3 years ago

okay i get it, the white wine glass is a motor over water

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Whipple Walker 3 years ago

and an fw...

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James016 3 years ago

Now all I see is a duck

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LONDYN BROWN 3 years ago

IKR!

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Hamilton Lover 3 years ago

I thought it was teeth when I was little as well

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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago

Wait... they're not antlers?

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Pamda Panda 3 years ago

Just in case anyone is curious, the Chinese symbols for New York are 纽约

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Francis 3 years ago

so are parts of his eyes?!

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Average Grizzlies Fan 3 years ago

If that were true he would be a derpy little lion!

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Prep To Lose 3 years ago

Nice. Well Played

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Average Grizzlies Fan 3 years ago

I always thought it said Gisnep.

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Abhainn 3 years ago

I always thought it was Disnep

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Neil Srivatsa 3 years ago

I thought it said Gisney, but when I realized it was a D, it looked weird to me so I kept on thinking it was a G

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Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago

Gisnep World is where you go to meet Gonalg Guck.

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Itzkai34946 3 years ago

Same 😭

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Oliver Hughes 3 years ago

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Ravenwolf 3 years ago

Same!

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shado 3 years ago

*spits coffee all over the keyboard*

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Madison Feehan 3 years ago

OMG! Thank God I'm not alone! I thought this until I was about 9!

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Little Zoologist 3 years ago

Me too lmao 🤣🤣🤣

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Lillian Castellow 3 years ago

same! i totally thought it was a "g" i knew that u wrote u name w/ a capital so i was confused

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Soleil Zapf 3 years ago

It's backwards gisnep

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Aubryanna Walker 3 years ago

Oh my god XD

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Jacey Lynn 3 years ago

I can’t really see it as a D either.

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neonn_pieee 3 years ago

I always thought the D looked like a G. Still, that is how I see it even though I know it says Disney.

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TheBookwormPotato 3 years ago

I could never figure out what the “Y” was

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Karen Klinck 3 years ago

A lazy trident.

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Bunzilla 3 years ago

it took me a while to realize that was a d and not some sort of 6 or something. LIke I know the the company is called "Disney" but I never really understand that that was a D in the logo

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BoredDragon 3 years ago

Let’s watch a g-clef isney movie!

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tangy chip 3 years ago

but then it would be just Isney...?

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Maddie 3 years ago

Not until my sophomore year in high school did I finally understand it

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Oliver Hughes 3 years ago

Clever!

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backatya 3 years ago

What did you think of the y?

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Starlee87 3 years ago

The treble clef makes sense as 🎵 is involved highly with disney

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Findlay LAM la personne normale 3 years ago

When I realised this my mind was blown, the world made no sense, I was confused and scared at this terrible revelation

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sam thecat 3 years ago

It’s more weird that you knew what a treble clef was.

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NOAH KAMRATH 3 years ago

I always see a P for some reason

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JOOSSED4T 3 years ago

I thought it was 6isney as as little kid

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general kenøbi 3 years ago

I always thought it was Disnep but the p is silent

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I Like Jelly 3 years ago

Same tho!!!

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Mayank Solanki 3 years ago

For some reason, I thought they misspelled the name in the logo. It always looked like "Disnep" and not "Disney" to me.

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Bella Archer 3 years ago

i saw Gisnep

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Jenny Bell 3 years ago

Me too, and I'm so glad to find out I'm not the only one.

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Hayley Rodgers 3 years ago

I still have to think about it to see the D. I always see a weird backwards G

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Jenný Samúelsdóttir Herlufsen 3 years ago

I always thought it was ÐIsnep, in icelandic we have the letter Ð which is pronounced like "th-" so I thought it was called Thisnep for longer than I care to admit!

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TheDivineMsM 3 years ago

Same

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I'manoob! 3 years ago

That's honestly a good theory...

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JustAWeirdoGirlChild 3 years ago

its a swirl around a pole (took me long time to see D)

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DC 3 years ago

... isn't that called Diisney? Todd found out the hard way (that he is in the right).

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Soph the Loaf 3 years ago

That's the treble clef of a music student who's sick of drawing clefs over and over.

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Billie Templeton 3 years ago

There was a man's shirt. It read, My Wife Love's the D (and only the D was in the Disney font.) I'm embarrassed to admit my 1st thought was, "Doesn't EVERY one like 'the' Disney?"

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