Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.
What he's saying: "If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself." Musk said. "Don't advertise."
Just as with Donald Trump or America's other high profile narcissistic capitalists, Musk's shadow over society is entirely driven by the attention he is given. They DO NOT CARE what kind of attention it is. Clearly.
Stop following Xitter links. Stop regurgitating his idiotic vitriol of the day. Stop giving him oxygen.
Report on what his companies do or fail to do, report his business failures on objective terms. if you haven't realized by now, the nonsense he says is nothing but self-hype or in this case shock/outrage bait.
"I have no problem being hated," Musk said, emphasizing that the trip was planned before his controversial post on X.
Grimes still doesn’t want you back, dude.
"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail."
Spoken exactly like the person who doesn’t care if they’re hated or not. “I WILL DOCUMENT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS IN GREAT DETAIL!!”
Although Mr. Musk acknowledged that an extended boycott could bankrupt X, he suggested that the public would blame the brands rather than him for its collapse.
That’s… kinda pathetic, actually. He’s acting like a literal child. “I didn’t want the cookie anyways!”
I would laugh at the absurdity if he wasn’t in charge of a major communications network.
It’s kind of inspiring, really. A guy with the mental age of myself when I was a teenage edge-overlord can “effectively” run a massive social media website. I really can do anything! I mean, I could if I had an emeralds mine from my papa, but still!
"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail."
The whole world has been watching Musk single-handedly tank the company since he acquired it.
It's like watching a dude punch himself in the dick, over and over. Eventually you stop laughing and watch in horrified fascination to see how much he can take before he keels over.
That's not the behaviour of a adult, that's also not the behaviour of someone in charge of a company I want to give any of my time to and certainly not the behaviour of someone who should be in charge of this Internet bank thing he wants X to become.
"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail." -Musk
Who would have thought that a company stopping advertising on an internet platform would actually be some of the greatest advertising?
Musk acted stranger in that interview than even his default setting. It looks like he's on something. If I were a shareholder in one of his companies I'd be wondering if he's about to have to check into rehab and/or the funny farm.
Anyway regarding his comments, telling the companies that are the lifeblood of Twitter to go f themselves is very brave. In the British understated sense meaning of "very brave", i.e. suicidally dumb.
Oops I killed the nerve center of American journalism that constantly reported on my repeated business failure, legal and ethical malfeasance, sexual misadventures, and despicable origin.
Of note: At one point, he also looked out at the audience and said "Hey Bob, if you're in the audience," presumably in reference to Disney CEO Bob Iger who spoke on stage earlier. "That's how I feel, don't advertise," he added.
FFS. Tesla, SpaceX - what are you doing? Eject this chud now.