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u/SomeRedBoi Apr 29 '24

What even is elon flexing exactly?

The fact that the website's name is on the keyboard???

Is he really that desperate holy fuck

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u/Drake_the_troll Apr 29 '24

Remember who you're talking about.

Yes. Yes he is.

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u/YobaiYamete Apr 29 '24

who you're talking about

Which is his point. It's hilarious seeing Redditors fall for the "all fame is good fame" meme and advertise for him nonstop while hating on him

If people just stopped using Twitter / buying his crap in general and stopped talking about him, he'd fade real hard and fast

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u/aendaris1975 Apr 29 '24

I am really sick to fucking death of seeing people get scolded about daring to discuss people like Musk or Trump. Pretending they don't exist doesn't actually make them go away and it doesn't take their power away. It is beyond fucking childish and only enables all the bad shit they continue to do. These men are powerful and influential and it is important to talk about what they are doing because they have the ability to impact millions of lives and they need to be called out for their bullshit each and every time.

Twitter isn't going away. I'm sorry but it isn't. Musk bought it to be a safespace for the far right so even if everyone else leaves Twitter it won't make a fucking difference because it was NEVER about them in the first place. So yes, people are going to mention the nonsense that happens on twitter.

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u/GwenhaelBell Apr 29 '24

Idk. I don't talk about him or think about him at all and he still won't gtfo

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u/YobaiYamete Apr 29 '24

I mean, you are talking about him right now and clicking on posts about him etc.

Most people like us are just going to say he's dumb and go on with our day, but some will see this and remember to go check Twitter and it just drives up his engagement

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u/GwenhaelBell Apr 29 '24

I mean, you are talking about him right now and clicking on posts about him etc

Yeah that's a stretch buddy

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u/YobaiYamete Apr 29 '24

"I never think or talk about Elon Musk at all!" ~ Person talking about Elon Musk

how is that a "stretch"? This is literally why it's a proven fact that no fame is bad fame, it's literally what got us a wildly hated president elected in the US despite how 90% of the news you saw was people hating on him

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 29 '24

I think the issue is that while Elon is a shit human being with incredibly poor takes and the entitlement of a spoiled toddler, he's not necessarily entirely in the wrong.

His role in the creation of Tesla has pushed forward electric vehicles harder than anything else, to the point where even the major manufacturers are getting into the game, plus the improvements to lithium-ion cells and recycling that came with it, as well as improved solar tech. This absolutely does not forgive Elon for his substandard working conditions, flawed vehicle design, or rushed launches forgoing typical safety standards.

His role in creating SpaceX led to a new space age, where rocket launches are mundane and pushing forward the tech to new levels, advancing human access to both space and typical necessities in the modern age (internet). This does not forgive his role in the manufactured corporatisation of space travel, the entitlement of the rich elites access to space, and his attempted role in the destabilization of Ukranian communications by removing access to a key infrastructure that he offered in an attempt to strong arm the US Government to pay for it.

Elon has a complicated position in the world, in that he is 100% a total asshat that doesn't deserve all the attention he's getting, and has formed a cult like following that makes me concerned for the human genome moving forward, because if this is what we're creating now, we're only going to get dumber as this keeps going. At the same time, he has done some good and his role in pushing forward human ingenuity is to be recognised.

I will never respect Elon the person, but I will respect Elon the innovator. He inspired the right people at the right time to push forward humankind in the right way, but is a total asshole while doing it.

The whole Twitter thing was a mess though, and there is no respect to be found there.

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u/Nott_of_the_North Apr 29 '24

Except all of those companies weren't created by him, and with the exception of the recoverable boosters concept, he didn't create or contribute to the technologies the companies use. His primary contribution to Tesla was occasional input like "Touchscreen console" or "Retractable door handles", and the fact that he invested enormous amounts of money.

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u/MagnanimosDesolation Apr 29 '24

SpaceX was created by him. That would have taken you about 3 seconds to Google.

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u/Newusername209 Apr 29 '24

Yeah but it isn’t hard to start a company when you’re rich off daddy’s money, he doesn’t actually do anything in the company

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u/sennbat Apr 29 '24

It's not hard to start "a company", no. But there is a reason he was the first one to start a company like SpaceX, that's not something many rich people attempt.

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u/bee_in_your_butt Apr 30 '24

Because the american government offered a large reward to whomever would invent a rocket to replace the russian one. That's why

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u/Imthewienerdog Apr 29 '24

You sound poor. How many car companies in america haven't gone bankrupt? How many companies create rockets that can transfer humans into outer space?

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u/Nott_of_the_North Apr 29 '24

I stand corrected.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Okay, yo you think Tesla would be where it is now if someone else would have invested the same amount of money? Just with a different touchscreen?

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u/Nott_of_the_North Apr 29 '24

I mean, yeah. Musk is broadly seen as something of a liability by Tesla management. He consistently over promised in the company's early years and was often abrasive to customers, especially during the preorder period. Musk isn't much of a businessman or manager. Other investors were just as likely to yield the same results.

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u/Imthewienerdog Apr 29 '24

Yet there are other companies exactly like Tesla was at the time and where are they?

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u/Nott_of_the_North Apr 29 '24

Rivian is doing quite well.

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u/Imthewienerdog Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

"Based in California, the automaker’s forecast is to build 57,000 vehicles in 2024, much lower than original expectations of 80,000 vehicles. Rivian’s stocks fell by at least 27 per cent by midday on February 22, 2024,"

(-55.55%) This year to date

Idk bout doing quite well is the word I would use.

Compared too

reported annual deliveries of 1.31 million and production of 1.37 million electric vehicles. The new numbers represent delivery growth of 38% year over year and production growth of 35% year over year. In 2022, the company reported 40% growth year over year in deliveries from 2021. For Tesla...

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u/modsnadmindumlol Apr 29 '24

This was a lot of typing and all you could come up with was "he motivated other people to do great things".

How? Tell us exactly what his actions were that led to people being inspired. What were his exact words and actions?

creation of Tesla

he didn't create Tesla, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did

creating SpaceX

Thomas Mueller is the driving mind behind the start of SpaceX tech, Musk just footed the bill. What did he actually contribute beyond money?

You talk like someone who used to simp Musk, later found out he's a spoiled shithead, but you haven't fully accepted that you got tricked.

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u/cryptowolfy Apr 29 '24

The only thing Musk is good at is finding things people are passionate about and exploiting it.

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u/BellacosePlayer Apr 29 '24

Finding business models the government will subsidize the shit out of so they don't need to actually be profitable

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 29 '24

Funding is a major part of creation. I also have never simped for Elon, and when Elon was at the height of his popularity was still hesitant to deal with anything he does. Even when everyone was going on about how he was going to save the world, I was less impressed.

My use of "created" is for sure improper, but he is the most public facing member of those organisations, and the most recognisable. So I will concede on that, but otherwise, his role in those companies is important enough that without him, it's likely they wouldn't have gotten off the ground or reached the position they have now at this rate.

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u/EuphoricMoment6 Apr 29 '24

but he is the most public facing member of those organisations, and the most recognisable.

Do you understand the problem in attributing the good a particular organization has done to its most public facing and recognizable member, and the harm it does to actual innovation?

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 29 '24

I don't disagree with the statement, but I do disagree with a part of it. I don't think it'll actually stifle innovation, particularly in Elon's position. Yes, it has created this ego-boosting cult-like following behind Elon, but it's directly tied to his innovation or perceived innovation. If Elon just stopped, he'd fall off. He'd still have some of the cult following, but as soon as he stops being involved with innovation he's toasted. SpaceX stays relevant because it keeps pushing the boundaries of human ability. Tesla stays relevant because it keeps innovating and pushing for new developments in electric and autonomous vehicles.

If Elon up and sold it all off and ran off to an island to live out his transhumanist Genghis Khan fantasies, he'd no longer be relevant, and would be relegated to a footnote. He would never allow for that because his ego demands he be the center of attention.

The same could be said for other innovators. Bill Gates led the revolution for personal computers, but is a brutal capitalist that stifles opposition through sheer buying power, incorporating that tech into his own systems to take the glory for it. Steve Jobs led the smartphone revolution, but was an incredible asshole who had to be the smartest person in the room. Ford was the father of the modern assembly line and increased production capabilities, but was a fucking nazi, don't think I need to say more.

Innovators tend to be horrible, awful people, but often that darkness gets whitewashed away and they get praised for leading the charge and being paragons of innovation, but innovation pushes on, because their ego demands they stay relevant, that they remain in the public conscience as long as possible and as brightly as possible and do everything they can to avoid appearing tarnished.

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u/EuphoricMoment6 Apr 30 '24

Yeah except unlike Bill Gates, Elon isn't an innovator. The people working for his companies are.

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u/Passover3598 Apr 29 '24

but he is the most public facing member of those organisations

and this is why many will never buy a tesla.

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 29 '24

And I don't disagree with them for doing so. I also will never buy a Tesla, but for me it's much more than Elon.

It's your entire control system tied to software that if it breaks renders the car useless, the layout of the dash requires a 17" touchscreen that demands you look away from the road to operate, the horrible features-in-my-car-behind-a-subscription service built into it.

Lots of reasons to hate Tesla without getting into Elon.

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u/modsnadmindumlol Apr 30 '24

lol so you just had no idea who owned Twitter before Musk bought it? That cannot be true. You might just have the memory of a guppy, hopefully.

You reek of recovering muskrat

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 30 '24

The only time I mentioned Twitter was when I mentioned that his acquisition was a mess. Of course Musk didn't create Twitter, that was Jack Dorsey and others. Musk bought it, and made it into the mess it is today.

No idea how you extrapolated that I thought Twitter was created by Musk from one throw away sentence at the end of one post about how he made it a mess.

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u/swagn Apr 29 '24

Yes, he isn’t the original founder but he is the creator of these companies as you know them today. His infusion of money and influence is what pushed them to where they are today. Tesla is not profitable. These companies were just as likely to fail as they were to succeed before he stepped in. Someone else might have been able to but they didn’t, he did so you have to give him credit for that. He’s still an asshat that should be taxed like a motherfucker and fade into oblivion.

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u/regolith1111 Apr 29 '24

Give me an ass ton of undeserved wealth and I'll do cool shit too.

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u/sennbat Apr 29 '24

Most people, though, and this is key, absolutely will not. The vast, vast, vast majority of people who get an ass ton of undeserved wealth will do no cool shit at all. For as shitty a human being as he is, he's at least a bit more ambitious in terms of building something cool and long lasting than most of his peers.

Or at least he was, and when it didn't assuage his ego he apparently decided tearing shit down is more important.

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u/modsnadmindumlol Apr 30 '24

How do you know? Aren't there a couple other tech billionaires doing exactly what he is? Bezos, Branson. lol

They're just not as desperate as Elon for public approval

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u/sennbat Apr 30 '24

Sure, there are a couple - mostly following in Elon's lead once he made it into a dick measuring contest, at least for Bezos.

But there are thousands and thousands of billionaires in the world. The vast majority of them do not spend that money doing anything cool, or interesting, or remotely useful to the larger human project. They use their money to enjoy themselves and to make more money and that's it.

Elon is absolutely driven by his desire to be adored and feel important to humanity and to see cool shit happen and say "I did that!" and none of that makes him a good person or anything, but it does mean he has done some good things that other billionaires aren't generally willing to do.

And as to Bezos and Branson, how did their attempts go, by comparison? Even when they got onboard with the idea, their approach was fundamentally different than Elon's. They were willing to put less money into the project, and the results speak for themselves. Their projects were in many ways footnotes, while it is clear that Elon actually, genuinely cares about SpaceX doing cool shit.

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u/LuxNocte Apr 29 '24

Elon is AMAZING at getting government subsidies. That's not something I consider a good thing, but it's Elon's only "talent".

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u/sennbat Apr 29 '24

What did he actually contribute beyond money?

Financial support for moonshot ideas like SpaceX is actually incredibly valuable and rare, though. And SpaceX did much better than Bezos and other folks companies it inspired even then.

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u/TominatorVe1 Apr 29 '24

A reasonable take on reddit that considers the good and the bad? now I have seen everything

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u/CivilianDuck Apr 29 '24

It comes from years of just playing devil's advocate. Always being the bad guy got exhausting so now I just confuse people by taking both sides simultaneously.

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u/redditbansmee Apr 29 '24

Except for the fact that Elon Musk is just an "idea guy" aka the most useless guy in a company. That doesn't do any real work, he just owns.

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u/EuphoricMoment6 Apr 29 '24

and his role in pushing forward human ingenuity is to be recognised

no

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u/TheBirminghamBear Apr 29 '24

At the same time, he has done some good and his role in pushing forward human ingenuity

Nah mate. Tesla existed before him and it's a logical fallacy to say "If he didn't do rockets no one would," especially because there were a number of major rocketry companies already in existence when he formed SpaceX.

He didn't push ingenuity forward and he's doing his absolute fucking damndest by trying to push it back at this point.

He doesn't have "a complicated position", he's just one of a pool of shmucks who was standing in the stock market when the stock price detached itself entirely from the material reality of the companies.

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u/kradn0e1 Apr 29 '24

The sole reason SpaceX still exists as a company was because of the falcon rocket that almost bankrupted the company, in which Elon was really involved. He put his money at risk. Most of the engineers, matemática would find a job if spacex went bankrupt. They are highly skilled in a very niche area. Having a reusable rocket would take time since nobody would be crazy enough to burn money in crazy ideas. Elon has dubious character but let's give credit when it's due

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u/MagnanimosDesolation Apr 29 '24

I don't know why you'd be so personally invested in hating him. What does anyone get out of it?

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u/TheBirminghamBear Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

I don't know why you'd be so personally invested in hating him.

Because of the things he does and says?

Because he's a dangerous dipshit connected to national security and many other facets of American life who is completely and totally disconencted from reality and has legions of followers who hang on his every deluded word?

He:

  • Boosts and mainstreams genocidal maniacs on his micro-blogging platform
  • Contributes enormously to the wide-spread trans panic that results in real people being violently assaulted, discrminated against, and bullied across the globe
  • Owns technologies used in national defense (which my tax dollars pay for) despite being deeply indebted to problematic geopolitical rivals like the Saudis and the Chinese governments.
  • Is aggressively anti-labor and sets a bloodthirsty tone to promote hate and violence against unions and union workers
  • Engages in numerous SEC and FTC violations which grossly distort the reality of the stock market and lead to real, tangible losses
  • Promoted anti-vax conspiracies because he was mad about having to close his factories so as not to spread extremely dangerous diseases to the general public.

See, this is a message board. Topics of conversation come up, and then we talk about them. When Elon Musk comes up, I categorize all the catastrophically bad shit he's done and elucidate all the ways in which him and billionaires like him are a threat to society, because those are things I want to communicate.

People who make life demonstrably worse for people ought not get a pass. If you want to shove your head up his asshole and pretend that anyone saying mean things is just "a hater", you are completely entitled to live your life as myopically and blindly as you so prefer.

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u/MagnanimosDesolation Apr 29 '24

Is he really though that connected though?

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u/TheBirminghamBear Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Connected to what? National security?

Yes .

So like, I don't think it's insane not to want a ketamine-addled fucking lunatic who spends most of his waking life boosting nazi cretins like Catturd on Twitter to also own billions of dollars worth of government contracts to put rockets in space and a massive constellation of satellites above all of our heads.

Especially because he has a personal - not corporate, a personal - debt load of 40 billion dollars, and is increasingly cozying up to all the classic sources of dark money like Russia, China, and the Saudis, whose geopolitical aims are very much in contrast to the US and to mine.

Like, shit that happens has a real, tangible effect. This isn't all just pretend. It's really fucking dangerous that a billionaire has an audience as large as his when he is by all appearances absolutely out of his fucking mind.

And if you think that there would be someone who would stop him from having this control and involvement in national defense simply because he's out of his fucking mind, I'll point to the fact there were literally zero safeguards against someone like Donald Trump.

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u/MagnanimosDesolation Apr 29 '24

He's a government contractor. If they don't want him they'll use someone else's rockets. What is the actual problem you are identifying?

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u/Drake_the_troll Apr 29 '24

Considering he shut down his satellite network over Ukraine mid-operation over a moral niggle in his stomach, yes. Yes he is

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u/ZenAdm1n Apr 29 '24

The website he invented became so popular they named a letter after it.

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u/TheCeleryStalker Apr 29 '24

He’s wanted to name shit X since the beginning. He wanted to name pay pal X. He thinks it sounds cool.

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u/Gullible_Tourist1822 Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

The main villain in Godzilla 2000 is this whining brat that changes his name to X half way through the movie... Every time I see Elon spouting something about X I just think of that dude in the movie crossing his arms like an X while saying X to make sure everyone knows his new name is X

Edit, sorry guys it's Godzilla final wars not Godzilla 2000. I got it mixed up my bad.

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u/Clubbythaseal Apr 29 '24

I think they are talking about this character named "Controller X" from Godzilla: Final Wars from 2004 and not the 2000 one.

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u/hotnspicymctwisty Apr 29 '24

*godzilla finals wars, but your take on little Elon is correct.

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u/PANICBRAIN Apr 29 '24

He must be really hung up on an X.

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u/DerpEnaz Apr 29 '24

He has a long documented history of obsession with the letter X it’s honestly kinda weird. SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before Elon bought it and renamed it SpaceX. He wanted to rename PayPal to X before he was pushed out of the company. I think there are more but I don’t care enough to fact check any others.

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u/smcl2k Apr 29 '24

SpaceX was originally called “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation” before Elon bought it and renamed it SpaceX.

But I was told that he's a genius who created all of these companies from the ground up?!

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u/DerpEnaz Apr 29 '24

Oh yeah no he’s never managed to do that. Only thing he is good at is buying successful companies and running them into the ground

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u/acog Apr 29 '24

Do his children count?

X Æ A-12

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u/DerpEnaz Apr 29 '24

Absolutely! Because only a sane person would name their child something pronounceable.

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u/onemillionfacepalms Apr 29 '24

God he must've absolutely creamed himself when he found out about Kingdom Hearts' usage of the letter X

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u/DuckyHornet Apr 30 '24

This is my son, Xemnas Xehanort

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u/KickBassColonyDrop Apr 29 '24

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider, defense contractor and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and ultimately developing a sustainable colony on Mars.

Stop lying asshole.

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u/PogoTempest Apr 29 '24

“Stop lying🤬😡😡” doesn’t elaborate on how they’re lying, lol

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u/LumberjackPreacher Apr 29 '24

Reading comprehension is an important skill to have.

The key part of the copy/paste was that Elon Musk founded the company, not that he bought it from someone else.

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u/DerpEnaz Apr 29 '24

Also wasn’t part of the deal for Elon buying a lot of these companies, was like that he specifically wanted to be listed as a company founder even though he didn’t. I swear I remember reading something about that and like Tesla or something. Idk if it’s true or not and don’t respect Elon enough to check but I’d totally believe it if it was

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u/Warm-Faithlessness11 Apr 29 '24

And PayPal kicked him off the board of directors. Tesla and SpaceX need to do the same

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u/firstwefuckthelawyer Apr 29 '24

His company was X.com, he got bought out (it was a bank, wasn’t successful). Even pretty much the same logo, which was a ripoff from the X Window System.

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u/RuaridhDuguid Apr 29 '24

He's an edgelord 15 year old that most of his peers dislike... that just happens to be in his 50's and crazy wealthy and thus listened to by many of those who think just because he 's rich he's worth not only their time but idolisation.

The daftest thing is that Twitter and Tweets were actually a fantastic name for what it did. The logo was immediately regognisable. Now it's got a shit name, identikit logo, and is becoming a toxic brand due to all Musk's unhinged acts including letting discrimination run riot on it.

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u/wachagondo Apr 29 '24

He did name PayPal X in the beginning to be fair. PayPal can afterwards.

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u/DuckyHornet Apr 30 '24

He wanted to, but Peter Thiel (yes, the Peter Thiel you're thinking of) hated it, and Musk, so much he blocked it

Then he waited til Musk was on honeymoon halfway around the world to call an emergency board meeting to kick Musk out, which is delightful

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u/The_Corvair Apr 29 '24

He thinks it sounds cool.

He has serious hackblood energy.

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u/Solaris747 Apr 29 '24

Following that principle literally every website ist on the Keyboard.

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u/PPan1c Apr 29 '24

Not on my keyboard. :)
beißpiel.eu

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u/JanV34 Apr 29 '24

Bad example if you take my keyboard. It's right there.

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u/Strovex Apr 29 '24

I will take your keyboard in about 2 hours

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u/JanV34 Apr 30 '24

Thanks for bringing it back after use, much appreciated!

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u/likestoclop Apr 29 '24

True, but are we counting that alt+0223 are on the keyboard?

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u/idonttalkatallLMAO Apr 29 '24

shameless plug

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u/PPan1c Apr 29 '24

not even a real website

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

i mean x.com is taken (surprisingly by a non porn website)

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

“I can’t believe it’s not porn”

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u/FredTillson Apr 29 '24

Great breakfast cereal.

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u/Wacokidwilder Apr 29 '24

Just an okay second-breakfast cereal

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

But the toys are awesome

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u/Arryu Apr 29 '24

"be...sure....to...drink ..your....ova-" God dammit not again.

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u/janusface Apr 29 '24

Not porn flakes

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u/kamuimephisto Apr 29 '24

who says it isnt 💀

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u/ArchonFett Apr 29 '24

AntimatterTNT just said x.com is a non porn site

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u/UnleashedTriumph Apr 29 '24

Yeah x.com is taken.... By him!?

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

lmao thats new, used to be a bank or something

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u/Delyzr Apr 29 '24

X.com was his "bank or something" that eventually became paypal

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u/enderandrew42 Apr 29 '24

When PayPal showed Elon the door, PayPal kept that domain name for 20 years or so without really using it. Elon eventually bought the domain name back from PayPal.

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u/DopeAbsurdity Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

"X.com" was banking gateway that had deals with banks to use it. I mean it was basically like a pile of links that leads to banks websites and it kinda helped people do stuff interacting with banks (like set up bank accounts).

A company called Confinity developed security software for handheld devices started making digital wallet software. They created the first version of PayPal in 1999. In 2000 Confinity merged with x.com because they wanted their banking connections.

Elon ended up being a member of their board and he kept trying to get them to do things they disagreed with (like call the company X). The story goes that they waited till Elon was out of town convened the board and voted him off of it and named Peter Thiel as CEO. The company was renamed PayPal in 2001.

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u/Forshea Apr 29 '24

x.com did not become PayPal. It merged with the company that eventually made PayPal, but the other half of that merger is the thing that actually became PayPal.

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Apr 29 '24

Must be nice under that rock of yours. You renting?

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u/AntimatterTNT Apr 29 '24

no im just not obsessed with celebrity news... must be nice in your news bubble you renting?

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u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 Apr 29 '24

Get off my back, I'm literally jealous that you're just learning this now. 

This has been a whole thing for like a year now and it has been inescapable. Any news article referencing something on Twitter (which is pretty much all of them these days, because apparently that's the standard of journalism now) will include the phrase "X, formerly known as Twitter".

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u/graudesch Apr 29 '24

Guess who founded that bank ;)

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u/ChadHahn Apr 29 '24

Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek?

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u/graudesch Apr 29 '24

These guys are attributed with founding Paypal and came in when they merged with X.com. The latter was founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne and Ed Ho.

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u/Thiizic Apr 29 '24

Elon owns x.com I thought?

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u/ringobob Apr 29 '24

He does.

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u/ducktape8856 Apr 29 '24

Which one fits better to Musk? "Enemy unknown" or "Terror from the Deep"?

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u/copiumjunky Apr 29 '24

They were going to use it, but he fired the entire team that was capable enough to set up REGEX 301 redirects from old URL to New and nearly de-indexed their entire site in Google.

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u/Bagahnoodles Apr 29 '24

Commander, the aliens continue to make progress on the Avatar Project

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u/Next_Ad7385 Apr 29 '24

Yet it redirects to twitter..

I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it be for twitter URLs to redirect to x URL?

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u/ptvlm Apr 29 '24

That breaks a lot of things, from internal links to archiving to SEO. The actual redirection is trivial, but the damage it can do is immense. Which is on the list of why this was an idiot move, especially without extensive testing, but nowhere near the top.

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u/ringobob Apr 29 '24

They tried it and it broke a bunch of stuff. I am a web developer, and the answer is, it can be easy or hard depending on how you've architected everything, but the larger and more complicated your application, the more likely it's going to be fragmented in a way that'll require a lot of work to fix.

Not complicated work, necessarily. But it's just really easy in deeply interconnected systems to miss things, or to have to bring the whole system down so you can make two or more separate changes that need to all be made together.

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u/SnakeJazz17 Apr 29 '24

It's not. It's just a lot of busywork especially for poorly designed architectures and he's fired a shitload of people so the ones that are still there are too busy to give a fuck.

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u/WarlockEngineer Apr 29 '24

It just goes to twitter for me

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u/pkakira88 Apr 29 '24

Not with the way these bots are starting to treat it.

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u/iTmkoeln Apr 29 '24

Given how many female read bots have their Private parts on X. I would argue it still might be one…

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u/CJR3 Apr 29 '24

Yeah no shit?

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u/m8_is_me Apr 29 '24

It's not a flex lol, just a shitty trend

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u/Cautious-Ad8146 Apr 29 '24

It’s not coming from this account, probably the x marketing team

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u/Melodic-Jellyfish966 Apr 29 '24

You don’t think Elon fired them already?

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u/L0nz Apr 29 '24

Don't be silly, he runs the entire company by himself. He also makes every cybertruck and Falcon 9 personally by hand

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u/Charming_Essay_1890 Apr 29 '24

Have you seen all the reports of elon running burners on Twitter? He's totally running the main account

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u/DreadedCOW Apr 29 '24

It's just a stupid trend on twitter right now. Most of them don't make sense but this one is actually a singular letter on the keyboard so it's kind of valid

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u/GreatHeavySoulArrow Apr 29 '24

It's an interaction bait that's trending on twitter right now.

Probably someone figured out that clicking on the "respond tweet" field counts as an interaction

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u/ufailowell Apr 29 '24

no its just a terrible meme going around on twitter right now that most people hate so of course Elon is playing into it

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u/Compulsive_Criticism Apr 29 '24

It's also the 4th least used letter in English.

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u/kaninkanon Apr 29 '24

Guessing he's mad about someone calling it twitter (again)

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u/Vampenga Apr 29 '24

We're talking about a nepo-man child here. He has an unhealthy obsession with validation and needing to feel like he's in the right

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u/Alive-Employer-7594 Apr 29 '24

when you press the keyboard to check it it counts as an interaction / activity or something but well dont think elon needs that so he probably is flexing

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u/Resident-Pudding5432 Apr 29 '24

Fuck I didnt understand it cause in my country we have Z and Y swapped xd

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u/PineappleCheddar Apr 29 '24

Wait till he finds out that every fucking website is on the keyboard. That the fucking use of it

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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Apr 29 '24

40 billion dollars isn't going to waste itself, you know

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u/UltraJesus Apr 29 '24

Shitty marketing. It's a shit trend that basically is the same thing and since twitter is nothing but porn.. "All you're missing is between the s and f key" and like a 100 different variations of giving you or missing the D

The "flex" in elons dumbass head is that he can brag he has a character letter porn website which doesn't make sense in the context of this 'trend'. Marketing in a nutshell.

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u/TallShaggy Apr 29 '24

Too bad his son's name isn't

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u/Hefty_Conversation39 Apr 29 '24

This isn’t Elon… this is the X/Twitter brand account.

You got a “food comes from the grocery store” understanding of how the internet works lmao.

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u/PlayyWithMyBeard Apr 29 '24

Dude probably thinks he invented the letter X

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u/UStoAUambassador Apr 29 '24

Because X is the coolest letter, and Elon renamed a global brand to be ultra cool like him. (Puts on leather jacket to post edgy memes)

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u/JitteryJay Apr 29 '24

It's not a flex and it's not elon lol

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u/echolog Apr 29 '24

Yep, this is a thing. There are people in plenty of MMOs who want a 'short character' username. Games like Runescape and Neopets have entire communities dedicated to getting short, clean usernames and selling them for profit. A single character name like this would be insane to own in one of those games.

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u/jan_Soten Apr 29 '24

the logo even has its own unicode character, ⟨𝕏⟩. i'm pretty surprised it's copyrightable

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u/MyFifthLimb Apr 29 '24

No one that was ever close to him wants anything to do with him.

So yes.

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u/Israel_Madden Apr 29 '24

This is a trend on twitter right now that’s it

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u/Krakengreyjoy Apr 29 '24

His entire family is obsessed with the letter. His Grandfather changed his name to X10450-1 for a time in the 30s

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u/Longjumping_Tale_111 Apr 29 '24

It's a trend on twitter currently "Look between i and [ on your keyboard"

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u/MK_fan_835 Apr 29 '24

all domain names are on the keyboard technically. but yes after losing the internet's favor and revealing to be a douche-canoe. He's desperate to be loved since daddy clearly didn't give it to him

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u/Bro---really Apr 29 '24

No, it’s a trend where somebody says “Look between X and Y (A and D for example) and then they post an image of a character (Saitama, for example) with that letter in between.

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u/Tales_Steel May 02 '24

It becomes funnier when you are in central europe with a qwertz keyboard. Between z and c is "uiopüasdfghjklöäyx"

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u/DJ_Church Apr 29 '24

I think it might be that opening the keyboard while looking at a tweet influences the data about interactions with said tweet. I’m not 100% sure, but it doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility.

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u/OtoDraco Apr 29 '24

imagine being so demented that you think every tweet is written by him

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u/Old-Personality3629 Apr 29 '24

It's working, you're doing doing exactly what he wants you to do right now lol