(Full disclosure: Musk once re-posted a meme I made, and it still makes me feel unclean.) Yet Musk wasn’t always so eager to have the public think him a funnyman, as when he carried a sink into Twitter HQ in October to mark his acquisition of the company, tweeting “let that sink Haha, awesome □- Elon Musk April 30, 2015 That evening, he gave an interview with a BBC reporter and, in a couple of tweets afterward, pretended to confuse the news organization with the shorthand for the porn category “big black cock.” Sharing part of the conversation, he commented, “Penetrating deep & hard with BBC.”įor anyone who’s remained a regular Twitter user since Musk’s takeover of the platform last year, none of this is remotely surprising: he logs on every day and, aided by an algorithm that forces his posts onto everyone’s feed, punishes us with a routine of garbled gags, corny jokes, and pilfered memes. This weekend, he ordered the “w” in the the sign on Twitter‘s San Francisco headquarters painted over, so that it read “Titter.” Then, on Monday, he changed his Twitter display name to “Harry Bōlz” before tweeting, “Impersonating others is wrong!” He later added: “I’m just hoping a media org that takes itself way too seriously writes a story about Harry Bōlz… ” Then, on Tuesday, he announced that the site’s unpaid “legacy” verification checks, formerly scheduled for removal on April Fool’s Day, would now disappear on April 20, or 4/20, the stoner holiday to which Musk has winkingly referred on many occasions.
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