Elon Musk Is Weird

[@nathansamuelson]

I found it hilarious during the Twitter verification mess that someone posed as Eli Lilly, tweeted that insulin prices were being dropped, and their stock price had a stroke for the day. Kinda telling where investor priorities are there.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Good point

[@LakeGameCreepr]

Eli Lily executives when people think theyre going to save millions of lives (they wont be able to afford another mansion):

[@Cloudsurfer69]

The dude who did that tweet made a video about it and it’s really good! Would probably be a good time to tell you the video title or channel but I have no idea what it’s called or who did it now lol. Sure a little searching would yield results tho:)

[@wta1518]

@@LakeGameCreepr That wasn't the executives, it was the investors.

[@kavky]

I regret not getting in on that when before the window of opportunity closed. Only afterwards I thought about impersonating Disney and tweeting that it would no longer screen films in China until they cease harvesting Uyghurs.

[@PennTankerGuy]

What's hilarious about the "X" rebranding is that he tried it with PayPal before he was fired. He got a few focus groups, and they all said the same damn thing. "It sounds like a porn website." The damage to his ego has never healed since then.

[@SongwritingDeconstructed]

@@sgn988 what's even funnier about that is as soon as he got off the plane and found out he got right back on a plane to SF and left his wife behind. On their honeymoon

[@bimbgusbomgus2861]

​@420bagsofdicks guess you could say he...values his X more than his wife?

[@internet_userr]

​@@sgn988what's hilarious is that no one asked 😂😂 Honestly X doesn't feel quite right it doesn't have the same feeling as Twitter did

[@JMS_Hunter]

I mean... Twitter already has plenty of porn so it matches I guess

[@Rahul_Sastry]

​@@JMS_Hunterthe only reason I would make an X account. Is becouse Twitter has porn I don't even have a account 😂

[@SpiralSine6]

Musk is the prime example of how we don’t live in a meritocracy

[@Kushagra.j]

Well bro you're broke and unhappy 😂😂

[@free_at_last8141]

The Man's done more to inspire than I ever will. He's also spun up some really amazing companies and products over his time. I don't think that He's a good example of the flaws of meritocracy nearly as much as children of many Politicians are. The Trump and Biden broods are examples of that.

[@Fr00stee]

​@@free_at_last8141literally all you need is a shit ton of money, if you throw it at enough startups some of them will succeed

[@user-cf6fo6bj1u]

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[@hayleyxyz]

You're going to get lots of Musk riders in your replies now lmao

[@stephenshoihet2590]

I always thought that the best thing a rich person could do for humanity was to buy Twitter and shut it down... I just didn't think this is how it was going to happen 😆

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

I'm still waiting for him to buy Russia. And since its value is dropping like Linus is dropping stuff, this could very well happen in the future :D

[@User-zh8rp]

@CakePrincessCelestia мы его не хотим

[@BadThrusher]

😂

[@Fabian46544]

​@@User-zh8rp Oh come on! He comes with free idiocy, a lot of bad ideas and a huge pile of narcissism. I mean, if you have another one of these, you could put them in the same room and let them play.😂 Russian from google translate: Ой, давай! Он приходит с вольным идиотизмом, множеством плохих идей и огромной кучей нарциссизма. Я имею в виду, если у вас есть еще один такой, вы можете поместить его в одну комнату и позволить ему играть. 😂

[@jebes909090]

Musk is such a genius he bought a 20 billion dollar company for 44 billion then turned it into a 1 billion dollar company 😅

[@SlermmMcderm]

Well when he found out that a good chunk of the users that were propping up twitters value were bots he tried to pull out 😂 and then they threatened to sue him if he didn’t buy it

[@derek.castle]

Twitter made 4.4Billion last year... it will pay itself of quickly at that rate.... seems like there are a lot of triggered leftist on this chat. Elon was happy to lose business to the insane leftist to make the platform fair for free speech and it should be mentioned that most leftist business are migrating back and he has fired tons of useless employees that has brought his expenses way down. Any company that makes 4.4 billion a year is worth more than 20 billion. Not to mention as an 'asset' that in 10 years when it is paid off it will be worth way more as compared to your money which will be worth less , thanks to inflation from Biden.

[@Vapor817]

@@SlermmMcderm why would he care, it was an obvious pump and dump scheme

[@redrustyhill2]

Just as he has done with every company he bought or weaseled his way into.

[@kevikiru]

I'm sure you've done more with your life!

[@StringsNStrands]

You can say what you want about twitter, but the twitter bird is iconic and "Tweets" have become internet lingo that can found its way into the public consciousness. Changing all of that for an icon that is bland and it would seems more like a pornsite app than a social media one. This man has truly made himself the smartest man in the room by removing everyone with any intelligence from that room, and now that room will be X. He will, by default, become the smartest user of X.

[@Melggart]

I think there are a lot of smart people around him. The problem is that the smart play in this case is to be silent and/or praise everything Elon say while letting the money roll for them as long as possible.

[@k.umquat8604]

​@@MelggartI mean... I'd totally do that if I were them.

[@racool911]

Honestly he might make more money just making a great pornsite

[@alexthewrecker4666]

​@@Melggartyeah honestly I respect the hustle

[@itsme924]

@@Melggart I saw the x on my phone before hearing it was changed and thought “did I download a porn app?”

[@asher3311]

i think people who think buying twitter was a drop in the bucket for musk forget the stage of the twitter purchase where musk was basically trying to back out of buying it as hard as possible but wasnt able to lmao

[@TimeBomb014X]

And I think you forget how twitter themselves tried to kill the deal at every turn until Musk hinself forced them to have to take his deal and in the process exposed that twitter had been a bit infested hellhole that it was using to bolster its numbers

[@raygunsforronnie847]

About US$18b of the money came from Saudi sovereign wealth funds. MBS might want his money back, or Musk may do some development deal with S.A. to keep from being "one with the sands of time."

[@janeydoe7417]

​@@raygunsforronnie847bone saw time!

[@One.Zero.One101]

🔖Yeah a lot of people don't understand that he doesn't have $100 billion cash in his pocket or in the bank. His business is speculative. The reason the stock prices are high is because investors are hoping to cash in. Speculative stock (Tesla) is when people are hoping it will be profitable *IN THE FUTURE* but there's no guarantee. Low-risk stocks (Apple, Google, Toyota) are stocks that are actually profitable *RIGHT NOW.*

[@domehammer]

I also don't think Elon realized how poorly run Twitter was, he probably expected a poorly run company not a adult daycare.

[@phant0]

He made the biggest mistake of all: He started believing his own myth. The guy has lost all grasp on reality. And yet he still has the money to have a completely disproportionate effect on people's lives.

[@hellomate639]

This is it. He is talented. People don't understand that talent is what actually creates this kind of hubris. Money and wealth that gets handed to you *can* do it, but if you have talent and you're kind of autistic and can't deal with a lot of social stuff, add in a shitty father, and yeah, you get Elon Musk. He's not the greatest. He's not the worst either. Don't work for him and ignore him and nothing bad will happen to you. But, I still can't find a single fucking video expose on the evil vile scum that runs healthcare. Why aren't we vilifying health insurance CEOs? I can't name one! They've killed millions of people and made millions of dollars off of it. For all the dogshit Elon has done, he sure ends up being a great distraction for the truly evil people in society. Just like Trump... Trump's significantly more evil that Elon. Elon is not great.

[@Randyy111]

Nobody deserves a billion dollars

[@theallseeingeye9388]

Its a classic issue of a looped feedback system. You get recognised for something and you are praised for being a genius. You think you have figured it out and keep pushing on that edge you think you have discovered. You end up in a situation where you have managed to avoid council of those who do not agree with you by either firing them or choosing to surround yourself with the cheer leader type. Shit starts hitting the fan.

[@gg2fan]

The old capitalists of a previous era understand that all the 'captains of industry' propaganda they were gassing society up with was just a cover for their own cynical self interest. Today's capitalists have forgotten that and totally bought into their own bullshit. Zuck thinks he's a Roman emperor, Musk actually thinks he's an untouchable super genius, and the Titan submarine guy ACTUALLY GOT IN his cheap plastic death machine instead of letting the rubes do it for him.

[@Игорь-з8м2я]

What disproportionate effect he has on my life?

[@vegamineral207]

I remember when I was in college studying computer science everyone in the program (including myself) loved to idolize Musk and talk about what a genius he was. Now that we are all more mature, any time I talk to to someone in the software industry all we do is talk about how stupid he is. He is one of those guys who you look up to as a kid and then grow up realize you grew up with false idols

[@jasminet3722]

literally me

[@maroonblood151]

I wouldn't say he's 'stupid', but I also wouldn't idolize him as a genius.

[@DylanDrinksWater]

He's above average intelligence in some ways but dumb in others Intelligence isn't one stat It's a spectrum of stats He's dumb in ways that make him lack some self awareness it seems Which makes him act a fool online sometimes

[@vegamineral207]

@@maroonblood151 perhaps stupid isn't the best word. Perhaps irrational is more fitting. Or even crazy. He is truly more than intelligent enough to be capable of understanding the consequences of his bad choices but his ego has left him so detached from reality that he can't any longer

[@daslynnter9841]

Well my personal journey was idolizing what he wanted, and being completely dumbfounded when he actually tried to do it. I wanna get people to space and mars, i dont want to clutter orbit to that goal. I want electric cars, but not his smart shit boxes that weigh 9,000 pounds and lose horsepower overnight. I want public transport but not hyperloop nonsense. Etc. Everything he does is a terrible implementation of a good idea. So before he does something, its easy to empathize and support him. Luckily i was too young to buy into anything besides tesla. Woulda been smart to invest it them in hindsight.

[@Elrond_Hubbard_1]

I think the greatest gift Musk has given us is that he has singlehandedly blown open the myth that the rich and powerful people who control this world are intelligent and skilled.

[@MK_ULTRA420]

Be white, be tall, and tell plenty of clever lies.

[@redrustyhill2]

Most are incompitent buffoons

[@trollashnikovavtomat]

Yes because you hating on him in the comments shows us just how skilled and intelligent you are

[@jinyoo2245]

​@@trollashnikovavtomatNot necessarily, but that doesn't change anything they said about Elon. Maybe consider canceling that $8/month lil bro

[@trollashnikovavtomat]

@@jinyoo2245 lmfao im not even on twitter, keep being butthurt that you'll never have 1/1000th of the sucess he's had

[@litterboxstudios]

Guy’s one “skill” is narcissism, and paired with the luck to be born wealthy, it’s almost impossible to fail in a country where the rich and powerful are almost always mythologized as “success stories”. I’m rooting for him to keep (inadvertently) proving the meritocracy concept is BS.

[@LeafSouls]

why is the concept BS? they are not even using that concept, you already know his just a rich dude, not skilled one

[@litterboxstudios]

@@LeafSouls The concept in practice, then. The idea that the concept is actually working. I think it’s pretty fair to say that most people with high amounts of power and influence do not deserve it and should not hold it by any genuine merit.

[@cancerino666]

​@@LeafSoulswhen the rich in this country are rich because they were born rich or got lucky, there is no meritocracy here

[@arthas640]

People overstate his families worth. By American standards they were basically upper middle class, even today his dad has a net worth of around $2mil which is admittedly a lot of money but I've known small business owners who were able to get similar amounts of wealth. People assume his family is wealthier than they are because his dad was part owner in a gem mine, and people often picture mines as containing vast wealth but there are plenty of small mines. There are plenty of tiny gold and silver mines all over the American southwest with families sometimes owning their own little mines; the KZbin channel "Cody's Lab" is a famous example of an upper middle class guy who's got his own mine. I even worked with an electrician from New Mexico who had a family gold mine. Elon got a leg up in life but he was a pretty standard upper middle class guy at first who just happened to be one of the few people to move to Silicon Valley and make it rich during a boom. His family didnt have any ties there or any influence, he established those himself. He wasnt the only one who's had ideas like Paypal but he was lucky enough to strike it rich. That took a ton of work and plenty of skills, but with Silicon Valley like many places there might be 20 people doing the same thing but only 1 will get big so it also takes a fair amount of luck too. His family got him an education and made sure he could establish himself but beyond that it was mostly Elon. He was able to turn tens, maybe a few hundred thousands worth in education into a multi-million dollar business and grow from there. Getting a free education and getting to move out of country for it is something many of us dont get, so he did get a lot of help, but it's not purely an inherited wealth like with Trump or many other super wealthy people, and his family didnt really get him any useful connections either like some of the super wealthy do.

[@CountingStars333]

To be fair to him, He became the richest in the world by leveraging his meme stocks, his family was far from that rich.

[@thewestisthebest6608]

I was pretty sure Elon would destroy Twitter but I didn’t know it would destroy him too

[@duyanhng8430]

​@somethingdiabolical3894twitter has never been profitable, before and after musk

[@vegeta4693214]

@somethingdiabolical3894 In business success is measured by the size of your wallet (or your family's wallet) and your credibility and reputation. You need the second one to be able to attract investors for your projects. So, if twitter makes Musk broke, and it makes him look incompetent; he'll have no wallet and no money from investors. So yes, twitter can literally destroy him, it's possible.

[@lonemaus562]

Twitter is now actually successful and earns money without people getting banned based on there thoughts .. it’s literally better and people like u have zero arguments ever but the same “Elon destroy twitter wah”

[@shoulderpyro]

"if im going down, im taking you with me" (x

[@reprovedcandy]

added benefit

[@Jose04537]

You didn't talk about the massive very bright and flashing X sign in the roof of Twitter headquarters. A sign that he didn't ask construction permissions for and that flashes a residential building in the front. That's another lawsuit on the making. And he also didn't pay the severance of his workers, that's another lawsuit.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

brother this is not Cyberpunk City

[@MattMcIrvin]

Elon Musk is stupid in so many ways that it's difficult to mention them all.

[@georgiahoresh6719]

Also, X or twitter or whatever is being sued by the building's landlord for not paying rent.

[@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820]

@@senritsujumpsuit6021????

[@mgordon1713]

To be fair, I highly doubt it was Elon's job to get a permission for it. He told his employees to change the sign, its the project leads responsibility to get the permissions in order.

[@Heyoka86]

Never before has a guy mythicized as a genius outed himself as a moron that quickly and irrefutably.

[@DMC1982]

E.Musk is the biggest scammer in the known universe.

[@lukewarmwaterr]

you havent seen all the "refutations" by Elon stans then

[@Okijuben]

@@lukewarmwaterr Stans gonna Stan

[@Blox117]

@@lukewarmwaterr you mean paid shills?

[@rars0n]

To be fair, he's actually been working on it for quite a long time. See the Hyperloop, Solar City, everything he's ever said about AI or Neuralink or Mars, etc.

[@saumyacow4435]

Reminds me of the old joke. How do you make a small fortune? Well, you start with a large fortune and...

[@Ponicrat]

When you get right down to it, Elon Musk is a lottery winner, who thinks and has convinced his fanboys that winning the biggest jackpot makes him the best lottery player.

[@romperrombor]

Yeah, won a lottery working his ass off in SpaceX and Tesla when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Also won the lottery on making Paypal with his brother from scratch

[@zephyr8072]

@@romperrombor You really believe his stupid lies don't you? Paypal was one of the random investments he made with his daddy's emerald mine money that lucked out and got big. He then ran Paypal into the ground so hard that HE WAS FIRED, but because he was already wealthy he got a massive golden parachute which he then used for SpaceX and Tesla. SpaceX is continually held back by Musk and his stupid ideas. If he had only thrown his ill-earned money at them that would've been fine, but his rank idiocy keeps stressing the employees who do the real work out and leads to massive accidents. Tesla is a bunch of overpriced, overdesigned cars that are very unsafe and routinely catch fire. This isn't even getting into Musk's numerous stupid, go nowhere narcissistic projects like the Hyperloop and rebranding twitter. Elon Musk is a fraud born into obscene wealth who has never worked a day in his life and you are _pathetic_ for simping for him. Have an iota of self-respect.

[@GRMNCVS]

@@romperromborLmao how can you be so gullible. Sure. Jeff Bezos also started by selling apples in the desert

[@welfare_baybee]

You sound salty.

[@Rcb4th]

@@romperromborimagine getting millions to start a company and thinking that’s from scratch 😂😂

[@VinceHere98]

I’ll still call it Twitter, no matter how hard Elon tries to change its identity.

[@venmis137]

How could you be so bigoted??!?!?!?!

[@lebronjericho6008]

Rip twitter

[@wilyriley_]

@@gnomefrompinkertonand I’m sure none of them will ever realise the irony

[@kingofcards9516]

@@gnomefrompinkerton Twitter has always been a cesspool of political degenerates. The left wing were not better than the edgelords now.

[@georhodiumgeo9827]

I never got a Twitter account but now I want to get one just to call it Twitter. Or W, see I got rid of everything except the W.

[@robindevoh]

I was catching shit for years when I told others I didn't like Musk and thought he was massively overrated. They said I was jealous or just 'didn't get it'. They've changed their minds since, I haven't had to.

[@reprovedcandy]

Same here. Ages ago when he first proposed the hyperloop my dad (a physicist w/ a phD from durham who worked on the development of better boring technologies for oil companies) ranted about how stupid his idea was and said there is no science to back what he's trying to do and that is was physically impossible to build a hyperloop. I thought my dad was jealous for awhile but I followed the project and realized it had become a total failure over time. I started hating that con artist after that.

[@rev3274]

It's weird that you and your friends talk about Musk. Looking at the comments and all the "Elon haters" it's wildly apparent he lives in the brains of crazy people rather than the average citizen. I don't hate the guy, but he never crosses my mind until some moron needs to feel better by calling him "dumb". He hasn't done anything egregious, or that directly affects you, so the only reason you don't like him is because he does what he wants with his own money. Wow, must be really hard to live right now, huh?!

[@CHIEF_420]

​@@rev3274🙈

[@Yaltaforma]

@@rev3274what? So what he did with twitter doesn’t affect its users? His political statements (of the richest man in the world) don’t affect the public? Does he need to personally come to my house and slap me in the face so that I’m allowed to talk about him?

[@tr3vk4m]

@@rev3274 Elon, is that you?

[@eee32323]

i got banned from twitter for calling elon musk "melon husk" and i am glad i did

[@SneakyVito]

liar

[@josgretf2800]

@@SneakyVito dude he'll ban people for calling him cis lmao. He's a baby with a fragile ego

[@stanleylaw107]

Elon even banned people on Twitter for spreading information regarding the location of his personal jet. Information that is publicly available for all from a legal crowdsourced public site. That's how petty and fragile Elon's ego is.

[@Smiley_101]

😂 I got ban from his site all the time for cursing 🤬 he ban me from freedom of speech 🎤 😅 .. what a 🤡 . Not like I cares to be there anyway

[@yondie491]

I got timed out for telling him to fuck himself to death. so proud

[@114418514]

"Don't call it twitter, call it X, and when people post on X, they do an X-crement" -found somewhere on the internet

[@xXVibrantSnowXx]

Xitter is better actually

[@timetraveler7]

Man, I love X, I love receiving Xvideos on there, I love Elon Musk, hail Elon, hail Elon.

[@wombat8812]

Elon Musk is living proof that you don't need intelligence or social acumen to be stupidly, ridiculously wealthy.

[@Kushagra.j]

Ok why don't you become one then?

[@zenoblues7787]

​@@Kushagra.jHis dad doesn't own an emerald mine to prop up his failing businesses.

[@Redtecho]

The most dumbest people often belive they're smart.

[@mephistosinner2]

@@zenoblues7787 if you did any real research on Musk you would know he and his father hate one another and he didn't get a dollar of his dads money.

[@tired_boy]

​@@Kushagra.jhe probably wasnt born into wealth

[@kakaiyu]

Just want to call out that Twitter actually does play a significant role in the networking and livelihoods of people in creative industries outside of being a tktoker or KZbinr. Many visual artists and animators are losing the followings that create their livelihoods, Elon's stupidity is causing some actual harm to people beyond just trolls and cancel-happy losers.

[@GoddessPallasAthena]

Yeah, I think it's a shame. I do (or did) see value in Twitter once I started reading it, seeing people of the same profession find each other, etc. I think for those who used it for good, it had some great benefits, which are being ruined now.

[@yondie491]

when it comes to creators, Elon's moral corruptness is worse than his stupidity.

[@BornRemaining]

Anyone who puts their livelihood into social media reliance really isn't any smarter than Musk or his cult members.

[@straighttothedisco]

Yes it was really hard for artists to move off of tumblr to Twitter and having to do the whole migration again is a lot of time and stress spent that people who own small businesses don’t have.

[@kakaiyu]

@@straighttothedisco not sure where nsfw artists would go either

[@cockatoo010]

Twitter's most valuable asset was its brand. The rebrand ruined that

[@lamontjohnson5810]

So if I want to send a tweet now, is it still a tweet? LOL

[@damientech88]

The previous owners turned Twitter from a town square into a left-wing activist circle jerk. That's what ruined the "brand" (unless you're a leftist activist)

[@DarkPirate647]

Not really, it’s brand was stupid people

[@gracehasnograce]

@@lamontjohnson5810 It's an x now

[@ownedmaxer607]

@@lamontjohnson5810 Now, it's just a message you send on a forum, only gussied up and heavily monitored by the government, not to mention said message is being sent on a platform filled with emotional grifters looking for their daily grievance to cry about for attention.

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

Don't forget he did that stupid thing with the rate limits that one day, all because he made a change to the website that did not work correctly, and lead him to think the site was under attack.

[@cadekachelmeier7251]

To be fair, getting people off of Twitter is a public good.

[@firewoodloki]

And Reddit followed...

[@kavky]

I thought it was to limit data scraping bots. I mean who tf scrolls through a thousand posts a day?

[@thewerdna]

​@kavky repies count as tweets. So if you check repies at all (aka, actually engage at all) you can very easily and quickly reach the limit

[@donniepayne9786]

Don't forget he has accomplished more by 9 a.m. Monday you than you have all your life

[@DualEdgest]

The Hyperloop didn't fail, it did exactly what it was intended to do: stop expansion of rail and bus services.

[@AquaCoalaNest]

Even in Europe, since "Public transportation is a solved issue, just give this genius a few years, no need to do anything until." This was a good excuse back then.

[@lennycrew3]

As much as I despise Elon Musk and his politics, I have to thank him for one thing: helping me end my Twitter addiction

[@onionfarmer3044]

What are his politics?

[@malcontender6319]

@@onionfarmer3044 Whatever he's told his politics are. These people don't do research, they don't look or really care. They just want some "other" to pile their obvious prejudice on.

[@uberbyte7467]

@@onionfarmer3044 diddling children, musk was a good pal of ole epstein

[@nonegone7170]

@@malcontender6319 Ah yes, you know so much better of course. Your esoteric internet knowledge is to be respected sir.

[@Rodoet001]

@@onionfarmer3044 Mostly whatever will net him the most attention. But among some of the ones who seem to stick are anti-trans (has shown hints of just being kind of anti-LGBT in general), anti-feminism, pro-decentralised currency, espoused rethoric of neo-concervatism, neo-liberalism, anarcho-liberalism, and futurism, he's pro-Russia and pro-Putin (or at the very least admire the man quite a bit), he is against wistle blowers and would like there to be laws against them, he hates unions of all kinds, he has on multiple occasions expressed antisemitism, he has flip-floped a few times on the matter of copyright in the past but now seems to be pro-copyright, and he has on multiple occasions said he want less people to be able to vote. In regards to less people being able to vote, who those people are have changed I think twice now with the latest being that only parents should vote though I can't recal off-the-top-of-my-head if he's said anything about the suggestion to raise the voting age in the US to 25 so it's possible it has changed again. And that's the ones that seems to be reoccuring and sticking around. Other than those examples he has made quite a few other openly political and politically charged statements but those seems to have been either jokes, manipulative hype making, or to garner attention, and has not stuck around.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

Remember when all those reddit fanboys kept spamming the internet with Elon Musk propaganda about 6-7 years ago? That was my first introduction to the 'image' of Elon Musk, and it was pretentious and cultish from the start.

[@robertoXCX]

I don't think the lesson should be "don't do drugs, kids" it should be more like "don't believe egomaniacal supervillains, kids"

[@nenasadie]

Underrated comment.

[@kardoxfabricanus7590]

Especially when that villain is on ketamine. My god I've done plenty of psychedelics but I am staying away from ketamine cause I've seen people become delusional In unimaginable ways with that shit.

[@prozacdick]

@@kardoxfabricanus7590drugs are not the problem, only how they are used. Know the effects and the risks involved if you want to take any drug and then decide for yourself. Stay away from whatever you would like, just don’t apply your experience to everyone else’s. stay safe.

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

Sell egomaniacal supervillains drugs, kids

[@nonegone7170]

It's always funny to me how Musk compares himself to JC Denton from Deus Ex, whilst actually being Bob Page.

[@rorbee]

i shit in solidarity with tyler's fun bucket

[@ffejpsycho]

He bought Twitter for 1 reason... => His ass was forced to cash a cheque his mouth had very loudly written.

[@Luka-DanteGodofMischief]

I love how he tried backing out and he still had to buy it..he shouldve kept his mouth shut but noo he went on and ruined a once popular site

[@Zuneg]

The whole "Twitter" to "X" thing reminded my the Simpsons episode, where Homer Simpson was mistaken for a genius and built the "Homer car".

[@justinwatson1510]

It takes a true genius to dress up an intern to look like a robot to lie to shareholders.

[@mjbaricua7403]

Or a ketamine addict

[@oscarhagman8247]

wait what, did he actually do this? 😂

[@BaronVonQuiply]

@@oscarhagman8247 Yes, there's a video of his vaporware AI semisentient cyborg robot homunculus (those don't all go together, but felt musky) only there's a no hardware but there is IS a guy in tights doing The Robot.

[@dannydetonator]

Or it takes a quick lesson from Russia-24, doing the exact same thing in Youth technology forum in 2018. His name was Boris, , or betterk own as Alyosha the robot. I wonder does everyone laugh at Tesla-bot as much as at Russian internal state-propaganda.. Or is Tesla-bot actually on market now?

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@BaronVonQuiply well its lore accurate for things musk say to not make sense together so ill say it works

[@kenshin6553]

I wonder how many “Elon Musk is a billionaire therefore you can’t criticize him!” comments there are 😂

[@tvmasterprobutts4246]

At least a bill

[@sl33penjoy3r]

he filmed himself carrying a sink into his giant money toilet to make a pun and still expects to be taken seriously. i swear rich guy divorce court can magnify even the biggest inherent flaws

[@AZ-ib8uf]

let that "sink" in for a moment lol

[@maroonblood151]

He doesn't take Twitter seriously that's why. He has stated it's not on the same level as Tesla or SpaceX.

[@davidbrockmeier9538]

Oh. I thought he was carrying the sink in to imply that he was "throwing out everything, including the kitchen sink."

[@Synthonym]

I mean we all knew at the time that he'd sink the company

[@disposable_income_andy]

theres a fake video of him in a zoom call talking about putting ball-warming technology in a car, but it's believable because hes so unfunny and its something he'd actually say so his reddit fanboy cult would eat it up

[@skaruts]

Twitter was a very good place for artists, entertainers, game developers, and many other people to provide quick updates about their work to their followers. A lot of people tend to have a very narrow perspective of twitter (including Musk) and don't really see all that was going on there. Twitter was actually useful to many people.

[@Very_Silly_Individual]

Wasn't very good for speaking your mind, though, which was the entire point of the website.

[@AR-24]

I see from the average consumer perspective, as well as the more not so safe works perspective. Twitter was a great place for both and managed to separate them both pretty well back then, no discrimination of either too.

[@skaruts]

​@@Very_Silly_Individual when you're inside private property, you follow the rules of the owners. And nothing changed with Musk. Especially since he only advocates for free speech during interviews.

[@Very_Silly_Individual]

@@kemist578 huh, I've experienced significantly less banning. Maybe you're just a loose cannon 💀

[@phutureproof]

bear in mind the vast majority of people on the planet don't use twitter at all

[@nlpnt]

The only upside I see to X is that when he dumps what's left of it on a big-5 media conglomerate for $3-5 million they get to use "The Bird Is Back!" as a relaunch tagline.

[@crezd5028]

I predict 2032-35 this will happen.

[@EisenSMT]

I mean we all know that -Him buying twitter -Him renaming Twitter -Basically all his decisions over the last 3 years Have been prefaced by the phrase "you know what would he hilarious?" followed by a long drag of a joint. The man's having his midlife crisis and unfortunately he's rich enough that he can take the rest of us down with him

[@barrag3463]

Honestly he won't even really be able to take many other people down with him either. If twitter just disappeared tomorrow it'd be a little inconvenient for some, but the world would keep turning. Tesla and SpaceX both have had competitors creeping up on them in the last 5-6 years. Other car manufacturers starting to put more serious effort into EVs and getting theirs out in a much shorter amount of time than Tesla, because they have much larger pre-established production bases than Tesla. NASA is finally getting off it's ass and starting to actually put more time into their own rocket programs again, which means Spacex is going to have to compete with much larger and more established aerospace companies (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman) for contracts in the future. Hell, a good amount of the concepts that went into SpaceX's development came from previous research done by NASA, that NASA just didn't develop further because "it wasn't worth the cost" (ie congress or the fed didn't want to fund it). The only reason Elon seems super important to anyone is because he has worked to build that image and implant it in everyone's heads.

[@smokeyplane3285]

"the rest of us" this only effects twitter users?

[@fanban2926]

Who is the rest of us????

[@placeholdername0000]

SpaceX will survive, due to the US gov wanting an advantage in space, even if it has to go to someone else. Tesla will become a battery maker with the car department bought by GM or whatever. The Boring Co is probably fucked and Shitter is going in the Shitter.

[@ignisterzone5399]

That and divorced dad syndrome.

[@TheChees1996]

The worst thing he did is block people from browsing twitter unless you make an account.

[@dannydetonator]

And then there's naive me, thinking i could read posts without registering.. YT is only and last social place i've used for a year. FU Neil Mohan!

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@dannydetonator no discord? discords really useful to talk with people

[@jcc.21]

@@Helperbot-2000discord kinda mid too many ppl that take the internet seriously

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@jcc.21 and the alternative? im not going to be able to talk with people a continent away across an ocean in person, and discord has alot of really useful features

[@mooganify]

its always been like that

[@ArchOfWinter]

It would have been so much easier on everyone to just pull a Zuck or Google and create a new parent company. Zuck created Meta and brought Facebook and Instagram under it without rebranding them to Metabook or Metagram. Google did the same with Alphabet. Probably would have gone a lot better if Musk said Twitter will be brought under the X family and will be seamlessly integrated into future X money service and other things.

[@fduranthesee]

"Metagram" sounds like a new/fancy unit of measurement, "Metabook" sounds like some dystopian novel's version of The Bible.

[@vylbird8014]

@@fduranthesee The prefix "meta" comes from a greek word meaning 'beyond' or something similar. In modern usage it usually means something more like 'transcending one level removed.' Metadata is data about data. A meta-study is a study of other studies. Meta the company means nothing, it's just a cool-sounding word that sounds technical. Although it could be described as a 'meta-company' because, as a holding company, it does nothing except own other companies.

[@ABUBBA22]

I think twitter is intended to be the hub site for X Corp and that's why it's rebranded. He didn't buy twitter for the branding, he was paying for the millions of users who are now automatically registered for whatever Musk had planned next for his web3.0 scheme.

[@MeatballYaro2]

How dare you make a rational thought

[@cykeok3525]

That would have been a good move. Maintain the Twitter brand (it's still very valuable), yet indirectly use it to promote his money services. Unfortunately for him, it looks like that ship has pretty much sailed, though.

[@thomas_xsg]

It’s been sooo satisfying to see Musk and Twitter go down the ‘Xitter’ at the same time. I hope we can draw this out as long as possible. 😊

[@arthas640]

sadly it wont really put Musk down. Even if he loses everything he invested (which rarely happens with billionaire investors, they usually get at least a portion back) it still leaves him with around $200bil elswhere. It's a sizable part of his wealth that he could lose but sadly not really career ending either and as much a blow to his ego and image as his pocket book.

[@fXInn14]

Musk had literally one of the most effective propaganda machines of modern times genuinely convincing alot of people he was a real life superhero and threw it all away after watching too much Tucker Carlson 💀

[@rainofrest7778]

💀

[@WarlockInTraining]

Just like how Joe Biden convince most Americans he would be a good president and Harris a good Vice President? 💀

[@Kitkat-986]

He let people speak without being censored. That's a good thing.

[@guitarded55]

@@Kitkat-986 except that Elon bows to every bigger player asking him to do censorship (government of India for example)

[@m3371]

@@Kitkat-986 he has accepted most government requests to employ censorship on his platform since buying it

[@cinderefell1399]

I hadn't even known that Twitter turned to X. I saw it in my apps on my phone and thought it was malicious. So, ya know, I deleted it.

[@MustraOrdo]

smartest thing to ever do regardless

[@KufLMAO]

rip

[@ElecWaff]

Implying twitter wasn’t malicious beforehand

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

This is the 1st Ive heard of it just now hahaha guess Im out of the loop and didnt get the memo..

[@VexAcer]

Honestly when he made the acquisition, I didn't expect much to change. Normally with stuff like this the changes are very gradual over time or imperceptible to the users. It's funny how much worse the site got after all the incompetent decisions that have been made.

[@sanantohomie]

he could have just kept his fat mouth shut and raked in cash but instead he had to open it to show people how stupid he really is, just like the trump presidency... both of them, all you had to do was COAST and whatever mythology the PUBLIC made of you but instead they rekt themselves! No sympathy for those idiots.

[@SangoProductions213]

He literally said repeatedly that he'd change it almost entirely. How could you think anything... oh.

[@just_your_localguard9612]

site was already tanking way before Elon tho, like Twitter had to filled void with bots.

[@VexAcer]

@@just_your_localguard9612 Oh yeah don't get me wrong, it already had issues beforehand. It's just funny how all the changes just made the site worse to use and addressed none of the problems from before. Except Community Notes, that's literally the only good thing we've gotten.

[@lulyhead]

Twitter is bigger than ever before? Meta even tried to copy them and failed miserably? If Elon Musk didn't buy twitter they were set to bankrupt between months? Oh you don't have a brain and don't care about the actual facts just want to complain about someone you hate for no reason, my bad

[@reprovedcandy]

How do you build a $1B company? Buy a $20B company for $44B and then reduce its value by 95%.

[@croozerdog]

guys he's actually really smart because he bought a bunch of smart people's work with his dads emerald mine money without having to think himself, you should all just buy stuff with your dads emerald money :)

[@Discounted]

Seems like he managed to get quite a big ROI to become the richest person on earth just from an emerald mine.

[@Letsplay222]

I once read that Musk offered a million dollars to anyone that could provide proof that he benefitted from an emerald mine. Nobody ever took Musk up on that offer.

[@ihl0700677525]

Lol. Elon is such controversial figure. It seems that third of the population worship Elon, while the other third truly hate him. IMO, as the third group who neither worship nor hate Elon, he's obviously no genius, but not stupid either. His passion on EV and space exploration is real and he gambled everything on these things. Somehow it works, maybe he's truly visionary, or maybe it was blind luck. Either way, he is what he is, he deserves his fame and current success. No amount of praise and no amount of mockery could ever change it. Elon is an eccentric and obnoxious man-child, but also one of the richest and most influential person alive. Thanks to his "vision" (or, alternatively, his bloated ego and megalomania) we could experience this worldwide EV revolution, and the new space race led by private sector. So, yeah, Elon, you are such obnoxious man-child, but I applaud your work and legacy. Well done.

[@Misuune]

i wish my dad had a emerald mine :(

[@racool911]

@@DiscountedIkr how profitable was the damn emerald mine lmao

[@MarcStollmeyer]

My favorite part of the Twitter purchase was he started by buying 10% of it and went after joining the Board… until he found out they do in depth background checks on all board members and he suddenly backed out. Then his fan boys started doubting him so he decided to buy the whole company as a 4D chess move… like what? Oh and the background check leaked that he sexually harassed a flight attendant and paid her $250k to keep quiet.

[@goshawk4340]

Most of the Mee too accusations were false. With no punishment if made up.

[@firecatskylar]

​@@goshawk4340ok if thata true show stats. Show that most of the Me Too people were lying

[@goshawk4340]

@@firecatskylar look at the amber heard Johny deep trail. Women don't get punished for a false accusations and get rewarded if the guy doesn't carry proof of location. Justin Bieber got a false accusations by a fan. He only didn't get sentenced because he had proof that he was a hotel in a different country on the day he allegedly had relations with the woman. If you don't get punished for false accusations then you have no down side to accuse someone.

[@sighup7663]

@@goshawk4340 There very much are options to sue false accusers in the US legal system. Also paying someone off with so much money doesn't exactly indicate a false accusation.

[@SteakFromJakeFarm777]

@@goshawk4340it’s not polite to speak with your mouth full of Elon meats…

[@BrianS1981]

It's says much about the nature of internet companies that "stealing your identity and data" is what makes them "profitable".

[@sunkcostfallacy2738]

I literally just deactivated my Twitter, sorry, "X" account when I saw the update. It's just too stupid for me to remain a part of it. I felt nothing as I did it. Years of tweets obliterated in a single moment, and I felt nothing. I'm free.

[@sunkcostfallacy2738]

@@birdman9860 No idea how it works. I just made the account. It's certainly different from Twitter. Usually when I first install an app, it takes me forever to get interested in it. Hell, I'm still trying to give a shit about Tik Tok, and I've had it for almost a year.

[@sunkcostfallacy2738]

@@birdman9860 Took me legitimately like 5 years to start using Twitter regularly, and I was still never all that attached to it. It was just something to do while I was taking a shit, waiting for the train, or on break at work.

[@Unknownlng]

@@birdman9860 Idk but it sure has resulted in a few peoples instagrams getting deleted lol

[@Supershadow301]

Good riddance!

[@bugseater1]

@@birdman9860 threads is a husk of an app and i am so happy it failed

[@Dayanto]

Contrary to popular belief, Twitter wasn't really doing poorly financially. They had basically no debt, and while they've invested a lot into the company and been slightly in the negative many years, they've also managed to pull in over a billion dollars in net profits at least once in recent years. The big issue is the giant debt that Musk took on. When you're paying >25% of your entire revenue in just interest payments it is hard to grow (or even sustain) your company. This loan doesn't even benefit the company in any way. The money all went to paying off the former owners.

[@fawfulfan]

Eh, they only barely managed to turn a profit for two years and were back in the red when Musk took over. Things got much worse under Musk but it wasn't a great business model even before him.

[@Ealsante]

@@fawfulfan Turning a profit for two years is better than Uber, Lyft or Snap were ever able to manage.

[@fawfulfan]

@@Ealsante yeah, well those companies have poor business models too. Why not compare to something like, say, Amazon?

[@wizardhacker2887]

@@fawfulfanbecause they are totally separate types of businesses. Lyft, Uber and twitter don’t generally sell physical items while Amazon does. It’s like comparing Amazon with Visa and Master card totally separate businesses

[@svancina]

Revenue is not profit. They never made a billion in profit.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

He's good at getting talented people to work for him because he has enough money to entice them to put up with his awfulness. Which isn't really a talent, "having money" isn't some inherent skill, as he clearly evidences.

[@fanban2926]

Huh? That's not it. He doesn't have money, not at all. The valuation actually comes from those talented people WILLINGLY working. That's where valuation comes from, not the other way around.

[@MisterZimbabwe]

@@fanban2926 Willingly working for a fat enough paycheck to put up with him running around the SpaceX offices and screaming at the engineering teams when they tell him "Your idea is impossible to enact based on the known laws of physics". And the valuation comes from product demos mostly, and/or product proposals. Half of which are just Elon running his mouth with zero understanding of what is actually feasible. Remember his Tesla android that was just a dude in a suit? He literally pushes bullshit first and then expects the actually smart and talented people to pull miracles out of their ass and just invent solutions to problems modern science has been already slowly grinding away at for the last century.

[@AZaqZaqProduction]

His companies actually famously pay below market rate for engineers.

[@jimhalpert0]

Ok clown, let's see you do the same

[@Studeb]

@@MisterZimbabwe I think most of the people working under him would earn more elsewhere, he has managed to inspire people far smarter than him to make him enormously wealthy, that is his biggest skill. For some reason it seems bullet proof, no matter how much evidence you show these people, they will just stand by him.

[@bennyboy5949]

Lotta cope from Elon fanboys in the comments lol

[@dr_birb]

"hes good at getting good people to work for him" that's a weird way to say he's rich

[@Videohead-eq5cy]

"He's good at being born into inheriting an Emerald mine that uses slavery" didnt have a good ring to it

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

$40+ billion to just throw it all into the trash anyway lol

[@dpactootle2522]

Imagine that. Broke people telling the richest guy in the world that he is stupid. HOW STUPID IS THAT?, jajajajajajaja

[@dpactootle2522]

when you get even $4 spare millions to trash, you earn the right to criticize Musk. For now, you are the moron and Musk is the genius.

[@dpactootle2522]

Correction: $4 million DOES NOT give you the right to criticize Musk. You will need $40 spare billions

[@jocaleb0236]

@@dpactootle2522 so, i can't criticize Kim jong un or whatever his fucking name is? He has an entire country in his pocket. Albeit a poor one but still an entire country, he owns a country. So I can't criticize him until I also own a country?

[@josevictorribeirolisboa7576]

​@@dpactootle2522He is still stupid, as are you for defendind him like he cares about you or even knows you exist. If anything he would spit on your face for not being part of the "elite"

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

Elon is a genius at surrounding himself with people smarter than he is. … now LISTENING to people smarter than him is another thing.

[@lominero5]

That's genius

[@JessicaPradoHanson]

LOL it seems like he hires them and then pretends he knows better and then fires the person he didn't listen to when it fails.....

[@pokefreak2112]

Are you kidding me? Where do you think he gets all the tech buzzwords from? Elon is literally a puppet parroting the opinions of the talented people he employs, that's what makes him so successful

[@Szpagin]

Allegedly, the reason Tesla and SpaceX aren't a complete shitshow is the management learnt how to manipulate Elon, gently dissuading him from particularly bad ideas and presenting good ones in a way he thinks he came up with them. Twitter is Elon without such safety net.

[@zephyr8072]

To be fair that's not hard, since a 5 year old boy with a crayon up his nose is smarter than he is.

[@LiveFromFederalPrison]

I feel like inevitably this whole "X" rebrand will be walked back some way or another. As the video said, it literally does nothing except destroy the brand-image 'Twitter' had built itself, as there is no real market for the "everything app". It appears to me that even the goodwill he has among his fans is waning simply because the website is in such a tumultuous state in terms of functionality and the $8 blue check thing that his supporters cling to isn't working out. Either simply in terms of functionality like seeing less ads or getting "more engagement", or in that I would wager a good chunk of its users see said blue checkmark and prepare themselves for ragebait/disregard the tweet entirely and scroll past, as, after all, they pay $8 a month to use Twitter. (Also, what happened to that whole "do you guys want me to keep being ceo y/n" poll and getting voted off?)

[@ThatOneREDScout]

I like titles that are truthful and to the point. This is up there in one of the best.

[@morninboy]

This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black not knowing it is stainless steel.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@morninboy Good point

[@kappadarwin9476]

I have to agree Elon is stupid, Brand recognition is a powerful thing that can make and break companies.

[@morninboy]

@@kappadarwin9476 The Elon haters entertain me. Please list your amazing accomplishments and let me know if you are stupider. Na, you don't have to respond after rereading your comment

[@kappadarwin9476]

@@morninboy A man who gets rid of one of the most recognizable social media brand names in the world for the letter "x" is an idiot. There isn't any other way to put it.

[@STICKOMEDIA]

This video just made me remember NFTs and crypto, ah... those times feel like ages ago

[@sinceremage9]

I feel like Elon has become what his geeky past self thought would be cool. It seems like hes never really had to be responsible for anything failing and now his naivity is on full display.

[@xanderblackstar8236]

The lesson to take away from this whole thing is not "Don't do drugs". It's "Don't be an attention seeking self-centered man child".

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

mmmkayy

[@cppghost]

or womanchild, stop being sexist.

[@jamesbizs]

You can’t possible believe he does drugs lol. He had government contracts. He literally isn’t even allowed to do drugs , you pathetic basement dwellers. It’s insane how many of you are just so ignorant and envious . So many people claiming they know better than the worlds richest man, at running any number of multi billion dollars corporations. Bahahaha. All you people can run is your mouths , on KZbin. I know you’d never have the balls to say it in person. You are all cowards. Bahahah

[@leekeater1527]

unfortunately, narcissism has no cure

[@froglegstastebestsalted]

You could try ego death but that takes drugs, torture or horrible life decisions. Still not impossible.

[@nathanphillipsgo]

A video to save and re-watch in a year.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

This

[@ricardoludwig4787]

I find the framing of "nothing of value was lost" just plain wrong because while twitter was terrible at most things, it was also one of the best place to get a following as an artist and work with comissions, its discovery algorithm worked decently well and the greater level of anonymity was actually great to allow for slightly more risky art not to ruin a person's IRL life if it didn't pan out; the website was still terrible and often undercut these advantages by being terrible, but something meainingful was lost

[@ajitbalkawade]

It was a great platform for journalists as well. It was the only social media with social utility and that is what people In power didn't like about it.

[@Filomovie]

I'm not sure Twitter won't "die" like, yeah of course the site will still be around for who knows how much, but now I'm pretty confident it will end up like Deviantart or Tumblr (which is having somewhat of a comeback because of his actions) both indeed still active but mostly remembered as a thing of the past

[@FuglyStick]

Hell, MySpace is still around, technically

[@ardagenc4674]

Those sites especially Tumblr pushed away their core communities with their bans In Twitters case I feel like these communities are political and blockchain based. If Musk manage to barely satisfy these users there is no other platform to go. Threads just become opposite of it with saying they are creating a friendly platform and it is failing misserably So even Elon fucks up pretty bad his competitors even fucking things up more so lets see who is less capable of understanding human behavior

[@Savage-jw3cr]

hE iS nOt StUpId He Is A mAsTeRmInD aT eVeRyThInG hE dOeS aNd YoU jUsT dOnT uNdErStAnD hIs gEnIuS

[@solinus7131]

i remember liking elon musk a while back and then he said something about covid around march 2020

[@cptmiller132]

​@@solinus7131he was dumb 10 years ago to anyone paying attention

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@solinus7131same, I liked him back in 2018 and I thought the Tesla in space thing was pretty cool. 2019-2021 I had mixed views about him. But I started to grow a disgust for him in early 2022 now I really don’t like him.

[@6023barath]

​@solinus7131 I think for many, including me, the unraveling became clearer with the 'pedo guy' remark in 2018.

[@ChimpingBulldog]

How woukd you know? You're capitalising random letters. It makes you look childish.

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

I firmly believe that the reason Musk bought Twitter essentially comes down to a spur of the moment decision and the reason he actually went through with it was to try and safe face. Musk is desperate for the limelight and the adoration of his fans. The reason he proposes whatever new stupid project in my opinion is to get applause. Much of his plans seem to be thought up on the spot, a throw away line that somone picked up, asked musk about it and musk just spun the idea around, more people got on to the hype and finally to keep up his facade as this disruptive tech genius philantropist visionary musk pumps money into a project that five minutes of actual research will reveal to be dead on arrival. But Musk can't admit to failure. I'm sure in his mind admitting to failure would shatter the image he carefully constructed for his fans to see. And he tied his self-worth to cheering crowds of fans and news media hailing him like he's the saviour of humanity.

[@yondie491]

100% of decisions in Musk's life were impetuous and spur-of-the-moment

[@andreeberhardt7418]

In Germany, there is a pretty old saying: "Ein Satz mit X, das war wohl nix!" That translates very roughly to: "Unpredictable factor X in your equation - worthless!" However, King Elon, The Great Regulator brought new life to it.

[@SafetyFooT]

The idea of some sort of everything app that is required to function in society is horrifyingly dystopian to me. I got to imagine a lot of people in democratic countries feel the same way. If that is Elon’s ultimate vision for Twitter, then it’s a direct measure of how out of touch he is with regular people.

[@raygunsforronnie847]

It's not even orginal. Think "AOL"... Eventually their audience figured out there was a whole 'nuther internet outside the gated walls of AOL and AOL went from the buying Time-Warner to being an afterthought in less than a decade. TweeterX will suffer the same fate if this plan moves forward. I suspect Mushy thinks his "free speech" hardcore following will come to him and take up the financial slack. The corporate advertising world is less enamoured with this user base, so even with more of those users, revenue will be flat or fall, and either spells eventual doom.

[@bestlaidplans4511]

I think buying Twitter was about supplying AI with a steady, largely unfiltered stream of human thoughts, speech patterns, and global news.

[@oktc68]

For his attempt to take on the might of Nvidia's AI dominance? Yeah good luck with that, he'll fail miserably at that too

[@PenguinCrayon269]

the problem is elon doesnt have LLM company

[@ILTOMBA]

Also yes.....and will prove to be a smart move at one point.

[@DeadKraken]

@@ILTOMBA Omegaverse and Daddy kink text fics, horrid thirst tweets, slurs, nazi posts, christofascist posts, anti-vaxers' bullshit, ultra-woke discourse, NFT blabber, AI bullshit and the worst porn imaginable enter the chat:

[@futavadumnezo]

Duh!

[@chimera9818]

Technically Amazon is the everything shop by design but bezos is actually genius (evil one but still genius)

[@fellipedasilva99]

I think none of those billionaires guys are actually geniuses. They have a lot of money to hire multiple geniuses to work for them and get all the credit.

[@Randyy111]

Amazon was something that would have happened regardless. He was also born into wealth and got lucky during the internet boom. Someone was going to come up with an online store that sold things. It's really not that extraordinary

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

​@@fellipedasilva99 They're smart enough to convince people with money they are geniuses so they're effective con artists if nothing else.

[@somedudeok1451]

You say you don't want to touch any *politics* here, but this whole thing is political. The domain of politics includes what egotistical billionares can and cannot do. It includes the question, if they're allowed to put up a brightly strobing sign that is so shoddily put together that it could fall over during a storm and kill people walking below. It also includes the question of what kind of people we want our economic system to promote to such powerful positions and if we could make our society more meritocratic instead of oligarchic.

[@sawyerstudio]

This dork actually got me off Twitter. I'm so grateful 🙏🏼

[@dpactootle2522]

I want to be a dork like Elon. I will even settle with merely $100 billion to my name. Can people be more moronic in these comment sections?

[@internetera1523]

So he DID save the world

[@ephraimboateng5239]

Me too.

[@Smellbringer]

Given how profitable WeChat is, I guarantee you that every major tech company from Apple to Facebook all sat down with their engineers and marketing teams. Smarter people than Musk might I add and asked them, "Can we do what WeChat does? And every single time the answer was a resounding, "You can try, you will fail."

[@CoryPchajek]

Telegram does a LOT. And the UX is arguably much better than WeChat.

[@JulioReguero]

This is in my opinion, one of the best videos out there covering the Twitter saga and Musk involvement. His own doings, his ego and his big mouth is what ultimately has devalued and destroyed Twitter, now X. There’s a reason why you don’t see billionaires expressing publicly their views on politics, religion, cultural tendencies, racial topics, and nothing controversial that could impact negatively the bottom line of their businesses. They just won’t let their egos run loose for the sake of wining fame, solidify a celebrity status, get media attention, or just “be right” about something. That’s childish. Everybody make mistakes, and one day anyone may say the wrong thing or express an opinion that is not popular among a group of people, but serious grown ups billionaires know better. They avoid attacking the very same group of people that are literally their customers or users. Have you seen Bezos getting involved in crap like Elon. Of course not, he simply bought the Washington Post and knows how to use the platform to push agendas. He doesn't care about the details of moderation in a social media platform. But not Elon, he likes the attention, he loves to feel loved by the masses, and loves this facade he has created about himself of being the founder and maker of many companies (which he's not) the innovator, the hero, the King for freedom of speech, a cool charismatic dude that is smart and wants to make the world a better place. Give me a break. The guy is a clown who was fired from PayPal and still can't let it go.

[@trollashnikovavtomat]

Please tell us how we can be as successful as you

[@JulioReguero]

@@trollashnikovavtomat Step number #1: stop being a psycho-fan of genius wannabes like Musk, con men like Andrew Tate, and dictators wannabe like Trump. Good luck!

[@MrCool-lo3ls]

@@trollashnikovavtomat hey do you want to know how to be as successful as someone like elon musk? 1 - be born rich 2 - exploit workes 3 - lie to the public/shareholders and if you want to be even more successful than even him 4 - don't buy X at an overvalued pricetag

[@erissanamaya9526]

Wise word 👍🏼👍🏼

[@yvesorivy]

​​​@@trollashnikovavtomatbeing a son from a dad that owning parts of an emerald mine in africa while "employing" local dark skinned people as underpaid worker take you to places.

[@AidanPatko]

Such a strange sense of satisfaction watching something I despised morph into something unrecognizable before dying a slow, painful death.

[@Gameprojordan]

He's not dying at all. You realize he owns tons of successful companies right? And he's only owned twitter for a few months while revamping the entire platform which is a huge investment in it of itself. I hope you understand it took 11 years for Twitter to finally begin turning a profit after first becoming a social media site in 2006. I'm going to enjoy seeing people like you seethe and cope when twitter/X continues to exist for years to come with no sign of floundering lol. I never even use twitter but it's hilarious watching ignorant doofuses like you think Musk is even remotely close to going bankrupt or falling hard.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

This channel? IKR lol

[@AidanPatko]

@@88_TROUBLE_88 sorry you feel that way bud

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

KZbinrs towards the site over the years is this to a T what the hell happened to half the site its not worthless but just so many things just don't feel the same :(

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

@@senritsujumpsuit6021 Indeed - absolutely just as true for this medium as a whole as well..

[@WasatchWind]

If you read Eric Berger's book Liftoff on the history of SpaceX, it is evident that Elon _does_ know his way around rockets and spaceflight. But anything else... he can be a massive loose cannon and it often doesn't turn out well.

[@croozerdog]

does he actually or did someone just write that down? it's hard for me to believe that he has more than hobbyist level skill in any of his endeavors

[@WasatchWind]

​@@croozerdogthis video from Everyday Astronaut I think demonstrates that he at least knows his way around spaceflight: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmiTZqVufqieiNk

[@WasatchWind]

@@southcoastinventors6583 The problem is mainstream news goes nuts any time the slightest bad thing happens with them, and ignores the fact that SpaceX is literally launching the falcon 9 every four days on average, and they are the only way for America to send people into space right now. Instead, you ask the average person about SpaceX and they think that they're blowing up a rocket every single day. I don't care about sensationalist talk from Elon haters or Elon worshippers, I want the truth.

[@etienne2315]

I think Elon Musk is as smart as you can get from basically getting 2 hour Ted talks from great scientist every day for decades. That does not really make him special any decently intelligent would get smart given that access and money. But given how much drugs he is on i wonder how much of his "genius" is accessible to him. Also being a rich person will make people portray you favorably since as a billionaire you can easily make or break the career of pretty much anyone. I would be skeptical about anything said about Musk since a lot of it is just hype to boost the stock prices of his publicly traded companies. Also most real smart people i think are very aware of their own limitations.

[@WasatchWind]

@@etienne2315 My cousin is a senior simulation propulsion engineer at SpaceX. He's met Elon a few times. Says the man is _really_ weird, but does know how to talk about rocket science. He knows enough how to properly manage very talented employees who do have the knowledge needed to get things done. We shouldn't pretend he's the reason why SpaceX is so successful, but is _a_ reason. Everything else though, Tesla, robotics, Twitter, I don't know enough about the subjects to make a good judgement.

[@n0ham]

In a way I find it sadening that twitter got doomed like that. Yes, it is a very toxic plateform due to it's userbase, but it's concept was a great idea that no other social media apps could replicate. It wasn't plagued by stupid reels eveywhere (like every social media app today) and you could actually just comunicate with people on a large scale like it was intended to be, and it never tried to be something else then it's original premise until Musk arrived. I used to use the site to follow my favourite artists without the trouble of the app trying to look like tiktok but the incessant con ads and this stupid rebranding got me disgusted off of the plateform entirely. Really, f*ck Musk.

[@yondie491]

text base mass communication has been on the internet for decades nothing unique to twitter

[@awsgamerguy]

I think you mean X

[@michaelstaab2872]

Go outside

[@yondie491]

@@michaelstaab2872 wait til you learn about mobile apps

[@TauGeneration]

damn, i didn't even notice the name change. this channel will always be to me "the knowledge hub"

[@BigWheel.]

Inb4 it's called simply "the husk"

[@bonkers5451]

Before the vid even starts, I can say that you are speaking straight facts in the title alone.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

fax

[@morninboy]

My bet would be he is much more intelligent than you. I love the humor from the haters. Thank you

[@alexthewrecker4666]

​​​​@@morninboyhow does Elons boot taste 😛 👢

[@ABC_A]

Leftist

[@godhimself1128]

​@@morninboymusk reply-guys all have a humiliation kink I swear

[@dv6165]

As the actual Elon Musk hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym I can vouch that everything mentioned in this video is correct and true.

[@datjap8883]

Like the elon test account 😂

[@ahmadahmal2942]

SO basically Elon wants to copy WeChat. WeChat is the biggest and the most complex platform on the internet, nothing comes remotely close. - WeChat is more like a smartphone operating system than an app. - People in China practically live on WeChat as payment processing is more efficient than systems built on card-based architecture like google or Apple Pay.

[@lolunicornsaj8907]

I love you for this lmao

[@westerling8436]

So It isn't?

[@Dean-eb3sm]

1:01 ​@@datjap8883

[@jtgd]

The muskrats are gonna be triggered by this video. Seriously though, he’s the epitome of “stupid smart person”. Yes he’s successful, but he’s not like one of the smartest people in the world. People conflate business success with personal genius. He’s like replacing Oppenheimer and colonel Leslie Groves in the Manhattan Project and churning out bombs, then taking credit for being inherently responsible for everything, including the work prior to his introduction. He’s a good marketer and businessman in terms of investment, but his ego is just like his dealing strategy to obtain Twitter… significantly inflated

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

yeah personally i think hes like howard hughes smart but goes off the rails and has personal issues

[@kev3d]

"Yes he’s successful, but he’s not like one of the smartest people in the world." So? I remember an article from several years ago about former child geniuses, all grown up. What do some of the smartest people in the world end up doing? It turned out not that much. I think one out of the five in the article had an above average income, an engineer or something. 3 worked mundane jobs, one of which was McDonald's - a literal burger flipper, and one had committed suicide because (it was believed) he couldn't turn his brain off. The point is intellectual brilliance isn't in and of itself a mark of success, either financially or socially. Say whatever you wish about Musk, love him, hate him, or somewhere in between, he employs tens of thousands of people in a variety of fields.

[@just_your_localguard9612]

seems more like pro Twitter people are whining way more then muskrats tbh, honestly glad he destroying Twitter, it a joke of a platform and deserves it fate

[@RRW359]

I started hating him when he started interfering with transit projects but I think the Twitter fiasco has turned him from generally loved with haters like me being a minority to the public hating him and fans being a slight minority.

[@mr.goodboi2780]

Well said, Tyler. I feel the same way. Elon is gonna find out the hard way with this ordeal when it tanks. Who cares, but it is really funny.

[@NigerianCrusader]

NO ELON IS COOL AND TOUGH

[@richmanifesto1090]

I've got a bottomless container of popcorn at the ready

[@samd.7932]

Yes, the richest man in the world really needs your financial advice ...Moron! LOL

[@donniepayne9786]

I can't believe the guy doing this podcast isn't laughing his ass off as he lies one lie after another.

[@ABC_A]

Leftist

[@steven95N]

"Switching to your secondary is faster than reloading"

[@Tyrany42]

I feel like I’m the only person who actually likes Twitter… though that may be because I only use it to follow my favorite artists and nothing else. I don’t see a lot of the toxicity, just cool pictures. If Twitter does go down I hope I can follow those artists to a better platform

[@2221-e4f]

Me too Don't care about twitter being american wechat or whatever, Hope Elon doesn't touch something that would make me hard to watch all these arts.

[@Moony1568]

I liked the website too. I followed a lot of artist on there and it was a great way to get news and updates on movies and shows. It’s super easy to avoid the toxic stuff. I’ll miss Twitter honestly.

[@WobblesandBean]

Lots of my favorite artists have already switched to Mastodon.

[@Kitkat-986]

I appreciate it because its the only social media site that doesn't ban mildly controversial opinions.

[@zephyr8072]

I like it because it's virtually the only mainstream social media site that allows NSFW content. The toxic culture of puritanism having restricted this everywhere else. Though no doubt Elon will ruin that too.

[@jerodwolf5582]

It takes a village to raise a company, but it takes one idiot to burn it all down

[@CarlosDeLosMuertes]

I know a lot of people don't care about twitter and agree nothing of value will be lost. But there does seem to be a good number of people in the camp I'm in, Twitter is where Tumblr went when they banned porn/smut. Up until Musk took over it was still one of the best ways to casually browse art that was hosted across a multitude of different sites in one place.

[@svancina]

There are zillions of porn sites you know. They're not hard to find.

[@remlapwastaken8857]

​@svancina it's great for 2D and 3D smut.

[@darksouls_guy1656]

@@svancina twitter has good rule34 that hasn't been uploaded to the rule34 websites

[@marocat4749]

I mean tumbrlwent softer on regulations on that, still.

[@straighttothedisco]

A big problem and a big draw to Twitter is how fast news travels. I think his actual first mistake was slowing down twitter’s algorithm. The urgency to be on it just left. I could open my app and be extremely late to conversations.

[@yondie491]

pretty sure that being less addicted to gossip is a good thing. actual grownups prefer information to be correct, not immediate

[@straighttothedisco]

@@yondie491 I agree, it is a manipulative tactic that modern news can do without, but thoughtful news isn’t how the “feature” was promoted and and the personalities he let back on kind of prove that. The stuff isn’t any more accurate because it’s been there longer, or promote thinking on what’s being posted. Its already harder to reach actual relevant content without scrolling through the ads or the not relevant verified accounts so the interaction between mutuals on new events was pretty much stale. It just felt a lot more isolating which isn’t ideal for a social media. Also sometimes quick news is helpful, like local updates on recent fires around here, I would like to be directed to the most recent news instead of opening the app and not realizing I’m looking at news from 6 days ago.

[@yondie491]

@@straighttothedisco 100% agree that some alert-level news is important, cuz duh. Honestly tho, the governmental agencies (i.e. the people whose job safety is) SHOULD have emergency text services for your area. Think tornado sirens but, y'know, texts... with specific information. I 100% would subscribe to a service that allows you remove ads and choose how your feed is presented. Give me "chronological order of people I follow only" *AND* a "this is what the algorithm suggests buttons. But... that's not what for-profit media allows. Cuz they're shit. Sorta like how I understand that KZbin is competing with TikTok... but it's utterly fucking stupid. I consider 98% of Shorts in my Subscriptions feed to be total and utter trash that is forced upon me. There's LITERALLY a separate tab for Shorts, but I'm forced to see them in my Subscriptions feed as well. Why? Cuz what's worse for me is better for KZbin. Sorta like how Netflix *USED* to have an amazing interface (like over a decade ago). Five-star rating system so the algorithm can curate properly and actually have good recommendations? GONE. Defaulting to your feed instead of what Netflix wants you to watch? GONE. Easy-to-access text descriptions of movies (instead of auto-playing trailers that count as views)? GONE. All because obfuscation is better for their bottom line. Seriously, fuck this shit. Fuck Elon (seriously... fuck Elon and his rapist-endorsing threat to remove the ability to Block... fuck him to hell).

[@markkealy4417]

@@yondie491 It's twitter, the only benefit to the news on it was that it was fast, it doesn't magically turn into quality journalism because its slow

[@wegriz5570]

All of his companies are big because of hype, it's all built on hype and delivering it's promises is secondary.

[@fuilli]

ah, the politician approach

[@matheussanthiago9685]

the fact that this mf can CEO like 6 companies, and the only shit he's ever seen doing is tweeting all day is further proof that CEO's are useless

[@danclassic7065]

Can't stand the man, but I would say that SpaceX has delivered. Helps that it has a very exclusive customer base. One that doesn't mind if the products are made in an artisanal fashion and each is unique. Which is not a good approach for making cars, and that's why Tesla hasn't lived up to expectations. I can however appreciate them for paving the road - for more serious car manufacturers. When GM and Ford finally get serious about the electric vehicles market, Tesla's going to get squashed.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

i mean tesla is doing pretty fine

[@Letsplay222]

@@danclassic7065 Nobody is buying Ford electric vehicles. Teslas still selling like gangbusters.

[@Helicard]

I downloaded Twitter and forgot about it. I found an app on my phone with an X in a folder. Took 10 minutes to realize what app I was using. The longest time I spent on the app.

[@BastardWolf28]

"Now I become X, the destroyer of birds."

[@marioman101]

To be honest, would it really be a bad thing if Twitter disappeared

[@FarmYardGaming]

Yes for the useful aspects, no for the userbase

[@chadilay69]

yeah because all the twitter users would be forced to contaminate all the other platforms

[@user-bkey]

@chadilay is right and that's probably the only bad part about it otherwise it's one of the less useful websites on the internet posts are short so by themselves they're limited in how much info they can give, the site promotes scrolling and always going to the newest thing so it's pretty hard to find any old information that might help you like a forum can, and the search is pretty garbage we really don't lose much except it being one of the political hubs of the internet

[@wtfbros5110]

This, hopefully he buys out fb too and destroy it

[@just_your_localguard9612]

I disagree, honestly Twitter has done more bad for the world then positive, literally it destroyed people lives, made insanely stupid people famous, and has been driving factor for all this insanity we see in USA, like screw Twitter it need to burn.

[@dydx_]

The only good thing he has ever done is was getting that hair transplant.

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

The only thing I disagree with is that "Nothing of value was lost." At the contrary. Now a days social media is huge for business (being companies or people that make their business online), and the xitting of Twitter made the site uninhabitable for advertisers, and by consequence, for users and business. A lot of value was lost even if the site was never that great. Although users will migrate (and are doing so as of now) the migration of audience, which is vital for online business, is slow and usually hurts smaller business.

[@twopieye69420]

Got behind a tesla in traffic today that had a vanity plate that read, "GO ELON". I almost swerved off the road from cringing. Held it together this time, tho

[@jeremypnet]

I think Elon Musk should go. I’m disappointed that Starship is so late because the sooner he fucks off to Mars the better for everyone.

[@WildPeanuts]

kinda cringe that you would cringe at that

[@TheChildProblem]

When your social life doesnt revolve around apps like twitter this matters not

[@nerfherder4284]

If you pay taxes in the US, a rather large amount of tax payer money is syphoned into Elon's pockets.

[@gianni_schicchi]

@@idontwantnodamnhandle you don’t know that and so what if someone watched and still finds it trite? You mad bro?

[@pole8740]

99% of things you do in your life probably doesnt actually matter

[@AquaCoalaNest]

When someone harms you that doesn't matter either to me. We both lack empathy.

[@zch7491]

Spending 42 billion on the world's shit posting board, wild

[@Discounted]

Was more like a liberal echo-chamber that censored anyone with opposing viewpoints. He spent $42b to make it the true shit posting board it's supposed to be.

[@Kitkat-986]

It's better than how most billionaires spend their money. Besides, he's made Twitter a better place for the average person.

[@txnmia8613]

​@@Kitkat-986you can't be human with that last comment.

[@Kitkat-986]

@@txnmia8613 He isn't banning half of the political spectrum, only shadow banning the fringe elements. That's an improvement.

[@txnmia8613]

@@Kitkat-986 you need to recalibrate your definition of fringe

[@henrikhumle7255]

Every offhanded mention in the public sphere, every political debate, every pop-culture reference... literally all of that free advertising is now gone. Permanently. Because none of it refers back to the site anymore. The lingo, referring to the bird, to "tweets" or "tweeting" - phrases that have entered the mainstream in the same way as "googling"; a kind of brand-association that most companies could only dream of - is gone. Rendered inert. It's genuinely difficult to explain exactly how dumb this single decision is. It's difficult to overstate how badly Musk needed to *NOT* do literally just this one thing. At this point, he may as well just have spent all that money he spent acquiring Twitter on programmers instead, in order to build his own alternative. The only thing he got in the deal was the brand, and now he's thrown that out, leaving him with nothing but an increasingly reviled and irrelevant platform, whose space in mainstream culture is now an unknown quantity. I mean, sure. Let this be the litmus test; if Musk somehow manages to turn this ship around and make "X" a profitable venture that we'll all come to care about, then he genuinely is a business genius.

[@Alphoric]

Now that you can’t even view tweets without signing in I haven’t used it once

[@ryankasch5561]

That's what happened half the time before Musk, it was and always will be so frustrating

[@majortom331]

Thats the point where i was really pissed off. Sometimes i just dont wanna login and just search tweets and profiles so i can keep track of things. But no, elon had to put a stop to it. For some reason. Smh

[@Alphoric]

@@majortom331 exactly and when there’s like a tweet from say a game dev company that’s talking about a change that you have to know about or just any scenario having to log in makes me just avoid it and use other sites like the dreaded Reddit

[@damientech88]

Buying Twitter and pouring gas on the dumpster fire until it's a pile of ashes is something I fully approve of.

[@nekomancer4641]

With all the tarded things Twitter did recently, the community note feature is a pretty neat addition

[@majortom331]

Legit the only thing good about post musk twitter.

[@kueller917]

@@majortom331 That wasn't entirely him though. I know Twitter has had fact checking notes for some time and the community aspect started deploying a little before the keys were handed to him. If there is credit it's that he embraced the concept I suppose.

[@Kitkat-986]

Yeah, but fact checkers are professional liars. Community notes is run by actual people.

[@pepo_idiot8502]

It’s funny asf sometimes

[@DeadKraken]

@@idontwantnodamnhandle It started as a "fact check" to combat fake news for the 2020 presidential elections of the US. If I well remember only accredited sources were able to actually write a community note, or the prototype of it. Then the concept was developed into something that any user has access to. Like all updates and features pre-Muskrat, it stayed for a lot of time in the prototype phase, that dumbass had nothing to do with it.

[@simoneastmond3970]

this is proof that being rich doesn't mean you're smart

[@DDMSakb48]

He must be the luckiest richest man in history lol