Enough Musk Spam

like Kleenex instead of tissues

No, this is like amazingly, monumentally more stupid. Pre-Elon (prelon?) twitter was getting free advertising on virtually every news cast and commercial in the US. I'm going to guess this varies worldwide, but twitter is for sure a brand that had probably about as much global reach as Apple, McDonald's, etc.

There is virtually no stupider brand change/rename that I can possibly imagine. I thought Max dropping "HBO" might have been one of the dumbest of all time, but this is a whole other level. And I didn't even get to talking about the new brand, which is also possibly one of the dumbest of all time. This post is merely talking about how incredibly dumb it is to drop a globally recognized brand, not even getting to the fact that the brand he chose is dumb for a thousand reasons.

It only makes sense when you you look at it from his perspective of making an everything app. "X" or "X corp" sounds and looks very cyperpunkish and it's been his fantasy since at least 10 years.

I like Mastodon and all, but I'm never going to call a Mastodon post a "toot." It's a terrible name for a post.

Vine would have been a better TikTok. At the very least, it wasn't Chinese-owned.

It never made sense to me why they shut it down because it got so popular so fast.

I think he's this narcissistic and impulsive but he's always had some sort of buffer between his worst impulses and reality.

He was a VC bro that was able to sell a few unicorn ideas to employees and investors (which is no small feat). His investors at his other companies were able to help build competent teams around him and prevent him from pinballing between bad ideas and keep him relatively focused on their investment and ideas that would work.

As Musk's weath grew, so did his power. His need for investors (and the need to listen to them) diminished. Also weath and power attract an entourage who are willing to do/say anything to stay on Elon's good side.

Elon only only purchased Twitter because he was compulsively tweeting.

He signed a no due diligence contact because no one around him was there to say "that's a really fucking stupid idea, there's no rush to buy Twitter, take all the time you need." But he signed a terms sheet that no homeowner should sign before purchasing a much less a multi-billion dollar acquisition. For reference, an acquisition of a small company with an annual revenue of less than $1M annually takes 3-6 months to go through due diligence, multi-billion dollar acquisitions can take years. That's a seriously compulsive decision.

If he sold his stake after saying he was going to buy them, Twitter was going to sue his ass off for doing a pump and dump and intentionally destroying stock value. That would also open an SEC investigation. Both of those would show the public how fucking stupid Elon is in a court of law. That's simply not okay for a narcissist. They must feed their ego.

Now at Twitter, he doesn't have a large backing of investors that he has to listen to like in a normal VC situation, AND he thinks he's actually smarter than everyone around him and we can see the emperor has no clothes.

After being a lucky VC that got forced out of his initial investments right before the DotCom bubble burst Elon's main value was as a marketer.

At Tesla he was able to sell investors and employees a vision of a gas-free future. At SpaceX he sold his vision of exploring the stars.

Who is clamouring for the next great social media platform?

Who's asking for the next 'everything' app?

Who's asking a private company to be more involved in their day to day lives?

Users certainly aren't.

Tl;Dr: Elon was a lucky VC, who's main value was as a marketer and not as an ops/engineering specialist.

He can and antics like this show he was born from money and a silver spoon in his ass. He is stupid and talentless and uses his money to try to prove otherwise, but since Trump he went mask off and no one can pretend a single word form his mouth is intelligent anymore.

Lucky fucking bastard, i hope his luck runs out but he's too rich to become destitute.

You forgot the obligatory 420 & 69 😅

"He hated the people I hate" has become the main attraction point of conservatism these days