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It appears that a few days ago there was a slight change to Flickr’s logo: an addition of a small Yahoo logo to the right side so it reads “Flickr from Yahoo.” In response, many Flickr users have taken to the photo-sharing site’s forums to express their horror at the Yahoo’s new branding of Flickr.

The underlying fact is that Flickr users, many of whom are techy hipsters, just don’t mix well with “middle America Yahoo” as Bartz put it a few days at the unveiling of Yahoo’s $100 million marketing campaign about “You.” Bartz said to journalists and bloggers:

“When you get outside New York and Silicon Valley, everyone loves Yahoo. I just want to transplant all of you guys out of your cynicism. What is wrong with you guys?. Go be cynical about frickin’ Google. You got me pissed off.”

Yahoo also got into a bit of a sticky situation with users when it removed a photoshopped image posted on Flickr of President Barack Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. Flickr took the image down, citing a DMCA notice, adding that “We very much value freedom of speech and creativity.”

Strangely, the company not only took the image, but also removed the Flickr page and comments, even thought this isn’t required by the DMCA. And then, in what was a totally contradictory move, Yahoo shut down the forum discussions about the political controversy, cutting off an further political discourse about the image.

Judging from the comments in the discussions surrounding the branding of Flickr, users don’t want to be reminded that Yahoo bought Flickr. On the forum, users call Yahoo “stale” and the log “horrifying” and “ugly” with many writing that they’d rather ignore the fact that Yahoo even owns Flickr. It’s kinda sad that Yahoo owns one of the most popular photo-sharing sites on the web, but Flickr’s users would rather not have it be identified with Yahoo’s brand. Perhaps Yahoo should start to make nice with its younger, hipster users that reside outside of middle America.

And here’s something for laughs—a funny mockup from a community member:

Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

What’s the matter with AMD? The number two chip maker in the whole world just posted some numbers that don’t reflect too kindly on its performance over the last few months

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I say no, but that’s just me. What do I know, I just spent 10 days driving 3,200 miles in a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid

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Can the Ford Fusion Hybrid travel 1,000 miles on one tank of gas?

As I just said in out little chat room, brought to you by Campfire , if I won the lotto, the first, and possibly only, tech thing I’d buy would be that special edition Leica . I’d have no idea how to properly use it, of course, but I’d be willing to fly out to Germany and have the Leica folks teach me

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That special edition white Leica: Only $9,000 this June (in Japan)