What Even Is X

[@ElevatorEleven]

Instead of Tweets, I think we have to call them Xcretions now.

[@robZtvDVD]

Xcellent! Musk certainly has turned the site into Xcrement…

[@raflidiot]

That's cringe damn.

[@pliant75]

I can get behind that. I’m not on Twitter anymore but I support it.

[@chazzybara]

I prefer x-crements

[@thecrakp0t]

​@@raflidiotfitting isnt it?

[@limb-o7180]

he can't think about anything else but his X-wife

[@themorbidzoo]

😭

[@manjackson2772]

They weren't even married and he's somehow more divorced from her than most actual divorced people

[@axiommoixa542]

fuckin get his ass

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Kaboom

[@sorahatumna1095]

I have to say, the coughing pushed this from a really good video to a great one. It really sealed it all together for me.

[@themorbidzoo]

I'm glad my misery entertained you 🙏

[@sorahatumna1095]

@@themorbidzoo condolences

[@mistabobdobalina]

​@@themorbidzooI'm just glad you didn't have dysentery.

[@audunms4780]

@@themorbidzoo pinnhed moment.

[@markbanks6623]

The clip around 5:10 of Elon talking about WeChat with his epigones just sitting around nodding and laughing awkwardly to his utterly banal thoughts is an amazing piece of footage.

[@emceha]

It's even more funny with the background - Musk is probably the only person in the room that don't know that actual WeChat tried to enter western markets and failed. Whetever you say big boss, burn that money how you want.

[@VeggieTanuki]

I was a little surprised to see that we didn't get a clown tangent to explain Elon's behavior. Is Elon Musk a clown?

[@themorbidzoo]

I thought it was self evident 🤡

[@kidkangaroo5213]

Clowns usually put effort into their craft. Elon does not.

[@psychoticpebble]

@@kidkangaroo5213 Elon is one of the wealthiest men on the planet. What are you on about "doesn't put effort into his craft"

[@verisimuli]

​@@psychoticpebbleand what is his craft exactly? making money? he's been losing a lot of it lately, seems he hasn't been trying very hard.

[@christianyaerger1751]

"X gon' give it to ya!" "What... what is it going to give me?" "... You know... 'It'. Just smile and nod and give me money."

[@HorrorFreakxx]

Great video. I would like to add one thing, which went through my head: I think the aesthetic of the 'X' also plays a role. It's not only cool and futuristic. The form of the 'X' is brutal, barbed, body-invasive, a maximally reduced violent motif. There was a viral video on twitter/X of one of his followers in which the twitter-bird is impaled and shred to pieces by the X. I don't think that's a coincidence. Albeit that certaintly, this didn't play a conscious role in his namegiving of the brands.

[@themorbidzoo]

Completely agree

[@AugustRx]

There's no way anyone who's not from the 80s thinks that letter looks futuristic. Or anyone over the age of 13 who think it's cool.

[@AlexPanfilo-o9s]

X - the app for everything has been an intended project of Musk for decades. What's left of twitter is going to be built up into something completely unrecognisable.

[@eatatjoes6751]

Twitter was a verb. *IT WAS IN TWO DISNEY MOVIES, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, AND NOW ELON IS "INNOVATING" IT INTO THE GROUND.*

[@namechoice]

It's just, what is even the point of buying Twitter, if not for the branding. The brand is LITERALLY the value.

[@doubleokevin4181]

After seeing this I have 3 takeaways: 1. Elon really do be grasping as straws to try and regain the notoriety/public love he had back in 2016 as our "Real life Iron Man/Tony Stark" 2.It's Amazing getting to see more of your content. and lastly, but most importantly: 3.While I do love seeing your content, I hope everything is ok with you (aside from covid, sorry you gotta deal with that weapon's grade cringe a couple months after the U.S. government pretty much has been rolling back all of it's federal aids for covid sufferers) because we went from 1 video 6 months ago to 3 videos in less than 3 weeks. Idk what's going on with your mental, but I know I speak for everyone here when I say I hope you're doing ok, and if you're not ok, I hope you're making your way through it. We all really appreciate your insight and intelligence on the topics you choose to cover, and hope that whatever brought it about is either a general desire to add more tidbits of your perspective (which are always appreciated) or part of your process for pulling yourself out of whatever mire aspires to tire and ire your mind. Well wishes from Florida. Also, please get some sleep.

[@themorbidzoo]

Thanks for the kind words, despite COVID I’m actually doing great! :) I for sure can’t guarantee this kind of prolificness all the time, but for now I’m in a really good spot letting myself enjoy writing and editing. I also got a computer that doesn’t crash when I look at it funny, so making vids is a lot less stressful and more efficient. Only good things 💕

[@Lambda_Ovine]

@@themorbidzoo I was actually wondering that myself and I'm glad to year you're doing ok

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I'm amazed at Elon's naivety, egoism, he thinks that the reason we don't wechat here is because nobody else in a similar position he is in didn't have that idea, tried or is trying to make their own platform the wechat of the west. Facebook, ran by someone far more competent than he is at running a social media enterprise, would love nothing more than to become the wechat of the west. But nope, he genuinely think that we don't have an everything app in the west like wechat because nobody has had the idea before

[@Mark_o_Helm]

I heard someone calling the app Ex-twitter. I like that.🤣🤣🤣

[@edhero4515]

Because the "suggestion algorithm" on yt doesn't do what it's supposed to, I've only just discovered this channel. Now I feel less alone. Thank you very much!

[@MeMelon]

Alright interesting video but this did NOT help me solve my algebra homework

[@markwilliams2620]

I got Covid in 2023.....after working in an ER since before the outbreak and dodging it the whole time. It's OK to be lame.

[@HeHasNoName]

Ive got a sneaking suspicion Elon might be, just a little bit, stupid.

[@UberNoodle]

I have a feeling he is the AI that's going to be running X.

[@themorbidzoo]

B-but he's rich

[@Lambda_Ovine]

there's no way someone could've planned this level of sabotage, you have to have a natural innate ability to fuck things up bad, credit where credit's due, nobody could've achieve what Elon did, intelligence would've gotten in the way

[@minaondrums]

This is the key hot take. Elon Musk is stupid, actually. In the little clip where he talks about the “genius” idea of copying WeChat, the emperor’s clothes were so very very transparent, and his sycophants just looked so cringe.

[@themorbidzoo]

@@minaondrums nodding, enraptured, like “my idea is that we should copy WeChat” is the most profound analysis they’ve ever heard 🙄

[@averyspecificdragon8780]

“Corporate murder” is the only way I can describe what’s happening to Twitter at this point. The only reason I’m still on it it’s because of the friends I’ve made in a specific hobby, and I just can’t bring myself to delete the acc. Guess when WeX officially launched and Elon tries to get me to enter my SSN to send “an X” I’ll finally leave lol. Side note, I’m glad to see you’re uploading more again! Your videos and analyses always give me such joy. I hope it’s not actually Covid and you’re doing better now lol.

[@themorbidzoo]

It actually was covid haha but I'm a lot better today!

[@saerain]

This saved Twitter from the Pravda hole it was spiraling down. Best place on the world now.

[@Aburner1109]

​@@saerain It ain't a place "on the world" tho Isn't even a place in the world

[@truejim]

5:11 “We don’t have anything like WeChat outside China” KakaoTalk in Korea? Line in Japan?

[@mikhailavandermerwe5636]

Not going to lie, the fact that you have Covid while filming this is so appropriate. The fact that you can belt out a hearty cough to express disdain towards the Muskrat is pure filming gold. It just punctuates your point so well. And really, the disdain is warranted. The Muskrat's a typical Pretoria boy. A massively over-inflated ego, but without the balls to actually work hard to achieve anything. Anyway, hoping that your recovery is going well. Really, getting Covid in 2023 is super anti-climactic and all my sympathies are going your way.

[@AlexPanfilo-o9s]

"The Muskrat's a typical Pretoria boy. A massively over-inflated ego, but without the balls to actually work hard to achieve anything" Musk has a reputation for working 18 hour days, sleeping in the office and building spaceships, not to mention founding Tesla and PayPal. Are we talking about the same person?

[@Aburner1109]

​@@AlexPanfilo-o9s I agree, he works hard. But he didn't found Tesla, and he doesn't add much actual value to the world. He's a very good businessman. That is not something the world needs right now, no matter what narrative musk wants to present

[@reallyidrathernot.134]

4:40 crazy that Elon can't see how sycophantic those dudes are.

[@axiommoixa542]

can't believe you've read my fanfiction about musk as negaverse john galt

[@themorbidzoo]

😂

[@TheAgentmigs]

3:44 Beautiful. Graceful. Timeless I dare say. =]

[@goosewithagibus]

I'm a mega loser and got COVID for my b-day in February. Took me a while to fully recover, hope yours isn't as bad.

[@Jaxx_101]

Well, the divine algorithm of YT, for once, blessed me and I discovered your channel. I find your analysis absolutely meaningful, punctual, accurate and sharp. Unfortunately I am not a native English speaker and I have substantial difficulties in following you in some passages and this, fortunately, forces me to watch each of your videos a reckless number of times. Good for you and especially for me. I hope you will publish your contents more often and I give you my sincere congratulations again.

[@GoPieman]

To me 10 years ago facebook felt like a fortress that you would use to keep track of & manage friendships. Now things feel more liquid, and having friends is more similar to pre fb times. Every year i use social media less, not more. Right now I wouldn't be more than mildly bothered if all my sm accounts were wiped out.

[@eplanti]

i've been forced to study elon musk for years with irritating tesla wanna be engineers, IT guys and MD's thinking hanging cables are a good idea... the main takeaway is that musk succeeds where other people have already succeeded, but with lots of overpromising, energy and hype, not intelligence as so many think

[@Best_Stressed]

I'm so sorry you have to deal with COVID. I really enjoy these shorter fast-reaction pieces you sometimes do! Although, I also really enjoy the longer-form more production-heavy stuff. It's all great.

[@Kam413313]

Using COVID to make the video even better? GOATed move lol, hope you feel better soon

[@themorbidzoo]

Thank you! 😅

[@UberNoodle]

​@@themorbidzooAnd when people questioned your wisdom of making a video while sick, I really hope you said to someone like, "Don't worry, I've got this covid!". Because puns make everything better. ;)

[@FinickyVoid]

This video is 1 bass drop away from Covid-core

[@glowingbars]

Glad to see a new post from you. Hope you feel better soon! Dig your insight.

[@rob9943]

You can answer objectively: which is worse, COVID or Twitter news?

[@themorbidzoo]

Twitter news. COVID might kill me but Twitter news will just haunt me forever

[@rob9943]

@@themorbidzoo they call that long twitter

[@kaycee7651]

I'm just gonna call it Lex Corp.

[@BayaRae]

The Peter Principle keeps me up at night.

[@onthespiral4054]

7:54 Like expose that the FBI was running the entire website and being the tastemakers for all countries allowed access, even to the point of forcibly pushing kpop in Japanese spheres.

[@TheEndKing]

Not sure how this relates to the Babadook, but this was a great video. Sorry you're sick, hope you get better soon.

[@connorelkins8223]

the ad that played before this video asked me to pray with him

[@NoizyInSeattle]

This is my new favorite channel. Damn, you are smart.

[@themorbidzoo]

Haha thank you

[@alexandergriffith1825]

I find it funny that he thinks twitter/X is this thing that people need in their life, but if people dont want something then it is in our power to shut it down and simply not use it.

[@matthewholt6168]

🤣 This one had me dying. I'm so here for COVID induced rants. Every time you coughed it was like a physical manifestation of sickness and disgust from Elon "Xposing" himself... for the base creature he is.

[@jonathanquigley1001]

Lol I love the feral covid vibe this video has. Hope you feel better soon! ❤

[@PlayNiceFolks]

"feral covid vibe" made me laff

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

💯

[@Agatosh]

Hey Covid19 in '23 gang! Wooo-oo...oo.....yeh.. I avoided it until December '23, thought it'd kill me, barely got any symptoms. Got lucky this time! Go algo!

[@timpage9424]

The fact it's gotten even worse since this video was posted is impressive on Musk's part. 😂

[@CybershamanX]

We're seeing this idea of "minimum viable product" being bandied about more and more. Your Amazon Echos, your barely functioning video game, all with "road maps" of what a product _will_ be, and not what it _is,_ is what's trying to be normalized. Hell, look what they tried to do with NFTs. That was the purest form of this concept and it came from that kind of thinking. The thinking that you can get away with making less and less of a physical product by promising more and more...someday. Christ, the laughter and guffaws that must be occurring even more than usual in corporate board rooms these days. 🤦‍♂️

[@themorbidzoo]

Exactly 💯

[@etienneleroi9515]

We now have the Seven Deadly Exes in real life. Though I would much rather have Chris Evans than a car

[@RaveYoda]

Truly a master strategist in using your own personal suffering *and coughs* to get chuckles with funny punch zooms. Ugh, gets me every time... Edit: I hope you recovered well from COVID!

[@davidcauley9400]

Elon Simps are the new Scientologists.

[@stargazermoonshowers]

Feel better queen

[@crimsonvexations]

You always come in with the best, well versed points and then leave us again for months. Love your content. (and I will not stop calling "X", Twitter. They can ban me for that.)

[@strangebird5974]

I have no love for the elongated muskrat (or any other billionaire), but seeing him in that meeting room surrounded by yes men was cringe-inducing. I wonder if someone in his position doesn't get mad at or notice the obvious obsequiousness of the people they surround themselves with. Anyway, I'm new to your channel. I've watched some videos and they are cool and interesting, so I'll guess I'll have to subscribe.

[@sandcat2383]

I don't know what I expected Elon to sound like, but it definitely wasn't that

[@qsilver7850]

I got COVID for the first time last month. A friend of mine got it for the first time this month. Sucks! Hope you're feeling better.

[@UberNoodle]

Covid is brutal. I got it for the first time in March, and since then, I've had a brutal on and off again chest cough. Just feels like pure devastation in there.

[@MrKrewie]

It's a way of life

[@geofrog10]

What a well thought deconstruction of why X is terrible. A concise criticism of every part of Elon's vision from the logo to the consumer service. This is the sort of commentary channel we need.

[@xs10shul]

I saw a documentary about this called Glass Onion. It was pretty good.

[@RATZGobbler]

I’ll always miss how Twitter allowed people in power to reveal how incompetent and out of touch they always have been.

[@normalgraham]

This is the only channel on KZbin, as far as I'm concerned

[@bentruitt9401]

Bravo!!! Get well soon...

[@malum9478]

i'm still on my three year streak. still no covid baybee ✌🏿 get better soon tho

[@phantomspaceman]

I thought he just liked the number 10.

[@AugustRx]

0:44 EXACT Representation of Twitter itself

[@maxhill9254]

Hey "the morbid zoo", I like your style. You seem to be smart and have the potential to make this channel a success. Keep it up :-)

[@Asmallcorneroftheinternet]

Elon offered his Xplination.

[@jnakhoul]

Is it weird I like her Covid voice

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

Great video! You always manage to pack in so much info in a short time without sounding rushed; it's a rare skill. Unfathomable how you managed to write,record and edit this with covid and atill maintain the quality that you did! With him being such an uncreative, derivative lolcow, I'm just glad that Elon wasn't in school after Columbine...

[@EkkoMr]

I hope he kills it fast. I don't think he wanted Twitter to succeed to begin with.

[@massi.zof92]

0:05 Me Me! I have COVID right now :D

[@balaclavabob001]

Having had Covid and that f'ing cough I'd like to say thank you for the 4 or 5 hours I'm guessing it took to make this vid . Also , Elonski is what happens when a bad Walmart manager gets born in an emerald mine and has zero problem taking the money and credit for other peoples hard work .

[@TheOtakuKat]

Hey Elon the 90s called they said they want their Xtreme marketing back.

[@eatatjoes6751]

It screams, "mid-90s" in the lamest way possible.

[@theonetruetim]

Yes. thank you. you are a diamond in the x

[@Cheyne_TetraMFG]

And here I thought this was going to be about the seminal punk band or the disturbing horror movie, but somehow this is so much scarier.

[@michellemiller1067]

Musk is also Gen X, much to my Gen X chagrin

[@endBehavior]

your channel is my new obsession

[@themorbidzoo]

Hehe thanks, new vid coming soon 😊

[@jesavius]

I blame DMX for Elon's obsession with the letter X. Elon really went hard with his X is gonna give it to ya!

[@teacherofteachers1239]

"B-movie science fiction." You read my mind. But for my money, The X from Outer Space, The Man from Planet X, X-15, X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes, Rocketship X-M, and, yes, even the Star Trek episode, Charlie X, are all way too cool for that infamous dork who just wishes he could be part of anyone's fascist inner circle.

[@_NDC]

5:55 as if Facebook, WhatsApp etc are not. 😂

[@moharak]

Awwww, she got covid head, lol. Adds a nice human touch on this btw. Feel better.

[@Lambda_Ovine]

Maybe systems, resources and organizations that involve and affect more than a dozen people at a time should not be owned and controlled by a single individual... like, ever

[@rorysimpson8716]

You just helped me realize that Elon is the Quentin Tarantino of fake tech geniuses. Entirely derivative work, radiates cringe rays that can fell a child or a sick goat, doesn't know how to talk to women or people who are black, runaway ego, fans that are willing to forgive a complete lack of inspiration or insight and a general level of creepiness. And so on.

[@themorbidzoo]

Preach

[@rorysimpson8716]

@@themorbidzoo haha. That was a wild swing. I'm glad there were no objections.

[@themorbidzoo]

@@rorysimpson8716 Tarantino has always annoyed me lol

[@rorysimpson8716]

​@@themorbidzoo this is going to sound cheesy, but it's actually quite a catharsis to have someone with such a respectable and well considered opinion agree. You put a lot of thought into what you say and I feel validated.

[@franklinnash]

Ditch the woodbines, love.

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

I'm so glad I left Twitter behind years ago.

[@ChadVulpes]

Looking back, I'm glad I never joined.

[@KaelWrit]

hope you feel better soon! 💗

[@DEarls-ye9tz]

I just found your channel! I like your content a lot. You remind me of Daria.

[@Goingwithafakehandlehere]

This week brought to you by a covid fever dream

[@Aburner1109]

Man. Even *if* Elon's dream of a super app was going to happen, it would be fucking awful. One idiot businessman in charge of *all online communication?* Why would anyone want that

[@KINKYmustache]

I am glad to see you still make content! It's been too long since I checked this channel.

[@noahboes5585]

Very fun video, thank you

[@MarKarda]

Get well soon!

[@PaigeSinclaire]

Lol I thought the vid was gonna be about that movie X 😂😂😂

[@themorbidzoo]

😄 just as disturbing tbh

[@redsands1001]

Just as turkey was the sick man of europe. Twitter became the sick man of social media. The coughing maybe influenced that thought. I liked the hellraiser video!

[@thekiss2083]

The sickening coughs punctuating your sentences work better than the lack of them would, thematically

[@schnitzelschnitzel8790]

Your eyes are hypnotic

[@hollyb7142]

Well said!

[@sanchoohches]

This didn't age well...

[@joenunez938]

He's trolling and it's hilarious.

[@themorbidzoo]

Ha no he’s just stupid. He tried literally the same thing with PayPal

[@Polkaknot]

Apparently Meta already had the Trademark for X in relation to Social media 🤔

[@themorbidzoo]

lol this shit just gets funnier and funnier

[@SirNotAppearing]

I hope you have a speedy and complete recovery from The COVID.

[@Polkaknot]

He does have a lot of exes...

[@the_horror_fan]

It is great an dandy but the US like to separate everything to capitalize.

[@Valmont334]

But...But...as a middle aged moderately overweight man, I DO want a global carb delivery experience, though. Like...imagine if Amazon drones and Blue Star donuts teamed up?

[@Lambda_Ovine]

hope you get better soon!

[@edwardchen9619]

i really thought you were going to shxt on the movie X and i was about to disagree lollllll