Twitter was set, well...a-twitter- this morning, when a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of the new Ant-Man and the Wasp movie surfaced online. The Paul Rudd led-film will be the third in a series of movies about the buggy Marvel heroes, and is scheduled for release in Summer 2023.

The picture in question was a simple one: Just the back of the director's chair. The logo on it, however, had some fans confused.

The seemingly nonsensical string of shapes left many fans on Twitter either confused or laughing hysterically (or probably both, in some cases) as they tried to puzzle out what it might say. Needless to say, it quickly turned into a roast of the film's design choices.

Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to be the guy who ruins the joke here: That gibberish was most likely never intended to be the new logo.

Because of the prevalence of on-set photo leaks like this, many movies will obscure key details in code on set, to minimize the risk of leaks and rumors that the production's PR can't control. The MCU especially tends to use these, as the film names would otherwise be easily recognizable - The last Spider-Man movie, Far From Home was titled 'Summer of George' (a Seinfeld reference); Infinity War and Endgame were nicknamed 'Mary Lou;' Captain America was 'Frostbite' (HA. That's mean.); The Avengers was 'Group Hug.'

The name we were all seeing on the back of the director's chair was not a horrible attempt at graphic design (sadly, because that would have been hilarious); it was more than likely an attempt to prevent people from figuring out the full title of the film before it was announced.

This name-fakeout practice is called a working title, and movie studios have been using it for far longer than the modern MCU has been around. James Cameron called his famous Titanic movie 'Planet Ice,' Deadpool became 'Wham!' (the character's favorite band); The Joker became 'Romeo' - and, more recently, The Batman with Robert Pattinson was calling itself, kind of hilariously, 'Vengence.' (It's just. SO dramatic.)

So sadly, it looks like fans are going to be buying tickets for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania after all. Sadly, we won't have to see anyone try to verbally pronounce Ant-Man and the Wasp: QUOooUOoOOO at the box office.

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Paul rudd, Robert Pattinson