Xbox is getting roasted online for its seemingly insensitive profile picture update on Twitter. Just a few days after the gaming brand owned by Microsoft updated its profile picture with a rainbow logo to acknowledge LGBTQ+ issues in celebration of Pride Month, the image has now been replaced by a more flame-themed version of the Xbox logo in apparent commemoration of the release of Diablo IV.
Pop Crave’s Twitter account immediately pointed out this logo change in a tweet that amassed millions of views over the weekend.
Xbox has removed their Pride Month profile picture and replaced it with a new one in anticipation of ‘DIABLO IV.’ pic.twitter.com/8u1qvNjaCu
We Got This Covered confirmed via the Wayback Machine that Xbox had indeed adopted a Pride-themed logo just days before switching it to the Diablo IV logo.
For one Twitter user, this gaffe represents Xbox going down a peg in the overall console wars.
This is exactly why PlayStation is better
The crying emoji was all one commentator could muster upon the realization that Xbox hadn’t even kept the Pride logo active for one week.
damn it ain’t even been a week
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