What should replace FAANG?

[Doctor Q]

The acronym FAANG, which stood for the huge tech companies Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google, is obsolete. Actually, it was already obsolete when Google put itself under the Alphabet umbrella name. Now that Facebook has done the same with Meta, Microsoft has passed Apple in market value, and Tesla has risen to rival those companies in value, we definitely need a new acronym.

We now have Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Alphabet, and Tesla, which means there are many possible combinations. I count 120 unique orderings. (It's not 6 factorial = 720 because of the duplicate letter A's.)

Here are some of the more pronounceable versions. Which do you prefer?

MANATA, MATANA
NATAMA, NAMATA
TAMANA, TANAMA

AMANAT, AMANTA
AMATAN, AMATNA

ANATAM, ANATMA
ANAMAT, ANAMTA

ATAMAN, ATAMNA
ATANAM, ATANMA
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Personally, I like MAAANT.

 

[0128672]

Several of these are existing company names. I like Natama, and found this on names.org because there's no meaning (yet known) for that name:

N is for nifty, how neat!
A is for animated, let your energetic spirit shine
T is for time, you give to friends.
A is for admirers, and all that you have!
M is for munificent, for you are extremely liberal in giving.
A is for assertive, a great leader

And yes, I'm snark-snorting as I read those too.

 

[Doctor Q]

There's a software company name Ataman, so I guess that one's out.

 

[Doctor Q]

John Goodman starred in a 1993 movie named Matinee about a movie theatre in the 1960s showing a 1950s-style fear-or-radiation horror movie named MANT. Perhaps MAAANT will have similarly scary connotations!

 

[KaliYoni]

Of the Top 10 S&P 500 stocks by market capitalization as of 8/31/21, seven are tech companies:

Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
Facebook/Meta
Alphabet
Tesla
Nvidia

So I'm going with FATMAAN.

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Data source: https://www.investopedia.com/top-10-s-and-p-500-stocks-by-index-weight-4843111

 

[Doctor Q]

So I'm going with FATMAAN.

Given the rich CEOs, A FAT MAN might be appropriate.

Since women are rare among the richest CEOs, change Facebook to Meta, giving you A M A M A T N, which is MAMA ANT.

 

[veena3]

MANTAA