Elon Musk Is Weird

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  • @SpiralSine6
    @SpiralSine6 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11097

    Musk is the prime example of how we don’t live in a meritocracy

    • @Kushagra.j
      @Kushagra.j 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +274

      Well bro you're broke and unhappy 😂😂

    • @free_at_last8141
      @free_at_last8141 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +291

      The Man's done more to inspire than I ever will. He's also spun up some really amazing companies and products over his time. I don't think that He's a good example of the flaws of meritocracy nearly as much as children of many Politicians are. The Trump and Biden broods are examples of that.

    • @Fr00stee
      @Fr00stee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@free_at_last8141literally all you need is a shit ton of money, if you throw it at enough startups some of them will succeed

    • @user-cf6fo6bj1u
      @user-cf6fo6bj1u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +668

      @@Kushagra.j😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

    • @hayleyxyz
      @hayleyxyz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1597

      You're going to get lots of Musk riders in your replies now lmao

  • @PennTankerGuy
    @PennTankerGuy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2273

    What's hilarious about the "X" rebranding is that he tried it with PayPal before he was fired. He got a few focus groups, and they all said the same damn thing.
    "It sounds like a porn website."
    The damage to his ego has never healed since then.

    • @lyricsdomatter
      @lyricsdomatter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@sgn988 what's even funnier about that is as soon as he got off the plane and found out he got right back on a plane to SF and left his wife behind. On their honeymoon

    • @bimbgusbomgus2861
      @bimbgusbomgus2861 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@420bagsofdicks guess you could say he...values his X more than his wife?

    • @internet_userr
      @internet_userr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      ​@@sgn988what's hilarious is that no one asked 😂😂
      Honestly X doesn't feel quite right it doesn't have the same feeling as Twitter did

    • @JMS_Hunter
      @JMS_Hunter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +143

      I mean... Twitter already has plenty of porn so it matches I guess

    • @Rahul_Sastry
      @Rahul_Sastry 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@JMS_Hunterthe only reason I would make an X account. Is becouse Twitter has porn I don't even have a account 😂

  • @stephenshoihet2590
    @stephenshoihet2590 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +168

    I always thought that the best thing a rich person could do for humanity was to buy Twitter and shut it down... I just didn't think this is how it was going to happen 😆

    • @CakePrincessCelestia
      @CakePrincessCelestia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm still waiting for him to buy Russia. And since its value is dropping like Linus is dropping stuff, this could very well happen in the future :D

    • @User-zh8rp
      @User-zh8rp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @CakePrincessCelestia мы его не хотим

    • @BadThrusher
      @BadThrusher 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂

    • @Fabian46544
      @Fabian46544 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@User-zh8rp Oh come on! He comes with free idiocy, a lot of bad ideas and a huge pile of narcissism. I mean, if you have another one of these, you could put them in the same room and let them play.😂
      Russian from google translate:
      Ой, давай! Он приходит с вольным идиотизмом, множеством плохих идей и огромной кучей нарциссизма. Я имею в виду, если у вас есть еще один такой, вы можете поместить его в одну комнату и позволить ему играть. 😂

  • @asher3311
    @asher3311 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

    i think people who think buying twitter was a drop in the bucket for musk forget the stage of the twitter purchase where musk was basically trying to back out of buying it as hard as possible but wasnt able to lmao

    • @TimeBomb014X
      @TimeBomb014X 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And I think you forget how twitter themselves tried to kill the deal at every turn until Musk hinself forced them to have to take his deal and in the process exposed that twitter had been a bit infested hellhole that it was using to bolster its numbers

    • @raygunsforronnie847
      @raygunsforronnie847 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      About US$18b of the money came from Saudi sovereign wealth funds. MBS might want his money back, or Musk may do some development deal with S.A. to keep from being "one with the sands of time."

    • @janeydoe7417
      @janeydoe7417 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@raygunsforronnie847bone saw time!

    • @One.Zero.One101
      @One.Zero.One101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      🔖Yeah a lot of people don't understand that he doesn't have $100 billion cash in his pocket or in the bank. His business is speculative. The reason the stock prices are high is because investors are hoping to cash in. Speculative stock (Tesla) is when people are hoping it will be profitable *IN THE FUTURE* but there's no guarantee. Low-risk stocks (Apple, Google, Toyota) are stocks that are actually profitable *RIGHT NOW.*

    • @domehammer
      @domehammer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I also don't think Elon realized how poorly run Twitter was, he probably expected a poorly run company not a adult daycare.

  • @nathansamuelson
    @nathansamuelson 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3125

    I found it hilarious during the Twitter verification mess that someone posed as Eli Lilly, tweeted that insulin prices were being dropped, and their stock price had a stroke for the day. Kinda telling where investor priorities are there.

    • @88_TROUBLE_88
      @88_TROUBLE_88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Good point

    • @LakeGameCreepr
      @LakeGameCreepr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +528

      Eli Lily executives when people think theyre going to save millions of lives (they wont be able to afford another mansion):

    • @Cloudsurfer69
      @Cloudsurfer69 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

      The dude who did that tweet made a video about it and it’s really good! Would probably be a good time to tell you the video title or channel but I have no idea what it’s called or who did it now lol. Sure a little searching would yield results tho:)

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      @@LakeGameCreepr That wasn't the executives, it was the investors.

    • @kavky
      @kavky 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

      I regret not getting in on that when before the window of opportunity closed. Only afterwards I thought about impersonating Disney and tweeting that it would no longer screen films in China until they cease harvesting Uyghurs.

  • @jebes909090
    @jebes909090 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5293

    Musk is such a genius he bought a 20 billion dollar company for 44 billion then turned it into a 1 billion dollar company 😅

    • @SlermmMcderm
      @SlermmMcderm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +203

      Well when he found out that a good chunk of the users that were propping up twitters value were bots he tried to pull out 😂 and then they threatened to sue him if he didn’t buy it

    • @derek.castle
      @derek.castle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Twitter made 4.4Billion last year... it will pay itself of quickly at that rate.... seems like there are a lot of triggered leftist on this chat. Elon was happy to lose business to the insane leftist to make the platform fair for free speech and it should be mentioned that most leftist business are migrating back and he has fired tons of useless employees that has brought his expenses way down. Any company that makes 4.4 billion a year is worth more than 20 billion. Not to mention as an 'asset' that in 10 years when it is paid off it will be worth way more as compared to your money which will be worth less , thanks to inflation from Biden.

    • @Vapor817
      @Vapor817 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SlermmMcderm why would he care, it was an obvious pump and dump scheme

    • @redrustyhill2
      @redrustyhill2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +234

      Just as he has done with every company he bought or weaseled his way into.

    • @kevikiru
      @kevikiru 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      I'm sure you've done more with your life!

  • @magolord2820
    @magolord2820 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    The only thing I'm sad about with Twitter dying is for every artists and just creators in general who needs websites like Twitter to easily share their work to a large audience and connect with it who don't really have anywhere else to go as they either are bad to share their work to a large new audience or straight up aren't able to sahe it at all. The only competitor I could see is Bluesky but even then, the waitlist is horrendously long if you aren't well established and don't have connections to people who are already there to share a code to join, and as long as it is on a whitelist only, they are pretty screwed...

    • @JayTraversJT
      @JayTraversJT 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Artstation still works as a great online portfolio, market and recourses site.
      However, between the god awful modern UI and their decision to support AI art, they just kinda ruined everything that site built up.

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      there are TONS of better sites out there that you just have to put in the effort to learn how to use.
      why any creator would defend the anti-creator Musk's platform is beyond me

    • @lindenbree9188
      @lindenbree9188 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JayTraversJT Iirc (and I could be wrong since I haven't visited it in years), Art Station has high standards. So silly meme drawings and beginner artists aren't welcome there
      It can be good for a polished portfolio, but not so much for fanbase interaction or newbies. And since consistent posting is crucial to maintain a relevant online presence, that's super hard to maintain when all you can do is post super polished work that might take weeks to make

    • @cancerino666
      @cancerino666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JayTraversJTai art has its own categories, don't know what you're pissy about.

    • @DanaiHamit
      @DanaiHamit 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JayTraversJT
      it's a controversial opinion of mine but i think Twitter artists should just abandon their website and move to Instagram
      Instagram is actually a decent platform for art in my opinion

  • @litterboxstudios
    @litterboxstudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    Guy’s one “skill” is narcissism, and paired with the luck to be born wealthy, it’s almost impossible to fail in a country where the rich and powerful are almost always mythologized as “success stories”. I’m rooting for him to keep (inadvertently) proving the meritocracy concept is BS.

    • @flaror3496
      @flaror3496 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      why is the concept BS? they are not even using that concept, you already know his just a rich dude, not skilled one

    • @litterboxstudios
      @litterboxstudios 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@flaror3496 The concept in practice, then. The idea that the concept is actually working. I think it’s pretty fair to say that most people with high amounts of power and influence do not deserve it and should not hold it by any genuine merit.

    • @cancerino666
      @cancerino666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@flaror3496when the rich in this country are rich because they were born rich or got lucky, there is no meritocracy here

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People overstate his families worth. By American standards they were basically upper middle class, even today his dad has a net worth of around $2mil which is admittedly a lot of money but I've known small business owners who were able to get similar amounts of wealth. People assume his family is wealthier than they are because his dad was part owner in a gem mine, and people often picture mines as containing vast wealth but there are plenty of small mines. There are plenty of tiny gold and silver mines all over the American southwest with families sometimes owning their own little mines; the TH-cam channel "Cody's Lab" is a famous example of an upper middle class guy who's got his own mine. I even worked with an electrician from New Mexico who had a family gold mine.
      Elon got a leg up in life but he was a pretty standard upper middle class guy at first who just happened to be one of the few people to move to Silicon Valley and make it rich during a boom. His family didnt have any ties there or any influence, he established those himself. He wasnt the only one who's had ideas like Paypal but he was lucky enough to strike it rich. That took a ton of work and plenty of skills, but with Silicon Valley like many places there might be 20 people doing the same thing but only 1 will get big so it also takes a fair amount of luck too.
      His family got him an education and made sure he could establish himself but beyond that it was mostly Elon. He was able to turn tens, maybe a few hundred thousands worth in education into a multi-million dollar business and grow from there. Getting a free education and getting to move out of country for it is something many of us dont get, so he did get a lot of help, but it's not purely an inherited wealth like with Trump or many other super wealthy people, and his family didnt really get him any useful connections either like some of the super wealthy do.

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To be fair to him, He became the richest in the world by leveraging his meme stocks, his family was far from that rich.

  • @wombat8812
    @wombat8812 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4150

    Elon Musk is living proof that you don't need intelligence or social acumen to be stupidly, ridiculously wealthy.

    • @Kushagra.j
      @Kushagra.j 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

      Ok why don't you become one then?

    • @zenoblues7787
      @zenoblues7787 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +727

      ​@@Kushagra.jHis dad doesn't own an emerald mine to prop up his failing businesses.

    • @Redtecho
      @Redtecho 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The most dumbest people often belive they're smart.

    • @mephistosinner2
      @mephistosinner2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zenoblues7787 if you did any real research on Musk you would know he and his father hate one another and he didn't get a dollar of his dads money.

    • @tired_boy
      @tired_boy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

      ​@@Kushagra.jhe probably wasnt born into wealth

  • @StringsNStrands
    @StringsNStrands 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3088

    You can say what you want about twitter, but the twitter bird is iconic and "Tweets" have become internet lingo that can found its way into the public consciousness. Changing all of that for an icon that is bland and it would seems more like a pornsite app than a social media one. This man has truly made himself the smartest man in the room by removing everyone with any intelligence from that room, and now that room will be X. He will, by default, become the smartest user of X.

    • @Melggart
      @Melggart 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +251

      I think there are a lot of smart people around him. The problem is that the smart play in this case is to be silent and/or praise everything Elon say while letting the money roll for them as long as possible.

    • @k.umquat8604
      @k.umquat8604 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

      ​@@MelggartI mean... I'd totally do that if I were them.

    • @racool911
      @racool911 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Honestly he might make more money just making a great pornsite

    • @alexthewrecker4666
      @alexthewrecker4666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      ​@@Melggartyeah honestly I respect the hustle

    • @itsme924
      @itsme924 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

      @@Melggart I saw the x on my phone before hearing it was changed and thought “did I download a porn app?”

  • @saumyacow4435
    @saumyacow4435 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Reminds me of the old joke. How do you make a small fortune? Well, you start with a large fortune and...

  • @thomas_xsg
    @thomas_xsg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    It’s been sooo satisfying to see Musk and Twitter go down the ‘Xitter’ at the same time. I hope we can draw this out as long as possible. 😊

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      sadly it wont really put Musk down. Even if he loses everything he invested (which rarely happens with billionaire investors, they usually get at least a portion back) it still leaves him with around $200bil elswhere. It's a sizable part of his wealth that he could lose but sadly not really career ending either and as much a blow to his ego and image as his pocket book.

  • @cockatoo010
    @cockatoo010 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +709

    Twitter's most valuable asset was its brand. The rebrand ruined that

    • @lamontjohnson5810
      @lamontjohnson5810 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      So if I want to send a tweet now, is it still a tweet? LOL

    • @damientech88
      @damientech88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The previous owners turned Twitter from a town square into a left-wing activist circle jerk. That's what ruined the "brand" (unless you're a leftist activist)

    • @DarkPirate647
      @DarkPirate647 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not really, it’s brand was stupid people

    • @Graceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
      @Graceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lamontjohnson5810 It's an x now

    • @ownedmaxer607
      @ownedmaxer607 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lamontjohnson5810 Now, it's just a message you send on a forum, only gussied up and heavily monitored by the government, not to mention said message is being sent on a platform filled with emotional grifters looking for their daily grievance to cry about for attention.

  • @phant0
    @phant0 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2254

    He made the biggest mistake of all: He started believing his own myth. The guy has lost all grasp on reality. And yet he still has the money to have a completely disproportionate effect on people's lives.

    • @hellomate639
      @hellomate639 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is it.
      He is talented. People don't understand that talent is what actually creates this kind of hubris. Money and wealth that gets handed to you *can* do it, but if you have talent and you're kind of autistic and can't deal with a lot of social stuff, add in a shitty father, and yeah, you get Elon Musk.
      He's not the greatest. He's not the worst either. Don't work for him and ignore him and nothing bad will happen to you.
      But, I still can't find a single fucking video expose on the evil vile scum that runs healthcare. Why aren't we vilifying health insurance CEOs? I can't name one! They've killed millions of people and made millions of dollars off of it.
      For all the dogshit Elon has done, he sure ends up being a great distraction for the truly evil people in society. Just like Trump... Trump's significantly more evil that Elon. Elon is not great.

    • @Randyy111
      @Randyy111 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +163

      Nobody deserves a billion dollars

    • @theallseeingeye9388
      @theallseeingeye9388 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

      Its a classic issue of a looped feedback system.
      You get recognised for something and you are praised for being a genius.
      You think you have figured it out and keep pushing on that edge you think you have discovered.
      You end up in a situation where you have managed to avoid council of those who do not agree with you by either firing them or choosing to surround yourself with the cheer leader type.
      Shit starts hitting the fan.

    • @gg2fan
      @gg2fan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The old capitalists of a previous era understand that all the 'captains of industry' propaganda they were gassing society up with was just a cover for their own cynical self interest. Today's capitalists have forgotten that and totally bought into their own bullshit. Zuck thinks he's a Roman emperor, Musk actually thinks he's an untouchable super genius, and the Titan submarine guy ACTUALLY GOT IN his cheap plastic death machine instead of letting the rubes do it for him.

    • @user-rl4gd9dx4b
      @user-rl4gd9dx4b 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      What disproportionate effect he has on my life?

  • @kenshin6553
    @kenshin6553 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    I wonder how many “Elon Musk is a billionaire therefore you can’t criticize him!” comments there are 😂

  • @kakaiyu
    @kakaiyu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    Just want to call out that Twitter actually does play a significant role in the networking and livelihoods of people in creative industries outside of being a tktoker or TH-camr. Many visual artists and animators are losing the followings that create their livelihoods, Elon's stupidity is causing some actual harm to people beyond just trolls and cancel-happy losers.

    • @GoddessPallasAthena
      @GoddessPallasAthena 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Yeah, I think it's a shame. I do (or did) see value in Twitter once I started reading it, seeing people of the same profession find each other, etc. I think for those who used it for good, it had some great benefits, which are being ruined now.

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      when it comes to creators, Elon's moral corruptness is worse than his stupidity.

    • @BornRemaining
      @BornRemaining 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Anyone who puts their livelihood into social media reliance really isn't any smarter than Musk or his cult members.

    • @straighttothedisco
      @straighttothedisco 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Yes it was really hard for artists to move off of tumblr to Twitter and having to do the whole migration again is a lot of time and stress spent that people who own small businesses don’t have.

    • @kakaiyu
      @kakaiyu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@straighttothedisco not sure where nsfw artists would go either

  • @thewestisthebest6608
    @thewestisthebest6608 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1522

    I was pretty sure Elon would destroy Twitter but I didn’t know it would destroy him too

    • @duyanhng8430
      @duyanhng8430 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@somethingdiabolical3894twitter has never been profitable, before and after musk

    • @vegeta4693214
      @vegeta4693214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@somethingdiabolical3894 In business success is measured by the size of your wallet (or your family's wallet) and your credibility and reputation. You need the second one to be able to attract investors for your projects. So, if twitter makes Musk broke, and it makes him look incompetent; he'll have no wallet and no money from investors. So yes, twitter can literally destroy him, it's possible.

    • @lonemaus562
      @lonemaus562 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Twitter is now actually successful and earns money without people getting banned based on there thoughts .. it’s literally better and people like u have zero arguments ever but the same “Elon destroy twitter wah”

    • @shoulderpyro
      @shoulderpyro 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      "if im going down, im taking you with me" (x

    • @reprovedcandy
      @reprovedcandy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      added benefit

  • @Jose04537
    @Jose04537 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +429

    You didn't talk about the massive very bright and flashing X sign in the roof of Twitter headquarters. A sign that he didn't ask construction permissions for and that flashes a residential building in the front. That's another lawsuit on the making. And he also didn't pay the severance of his workers, that's another lawsuit.

    • @senritsujumpsuit6021
      @senritsujumpsuit6021 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      brother this is not Cyberpunk City

    • @MattMcIrvin
      @MattMcIrvin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Elon Musk is stupid in so many ways that it's difficult to mention them all.

    • @georgiahoresh6719
      @georgiahoresh6719 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      Also, X or twitter or whatever is being sued by the building's landlord for not paying rent.

    • @--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820
      @--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@senritsujumpsuit6021????

    • @mgordon1713
      @mgordon1713 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To be fair, I highly doubt it was Elon's job to get a permission for it.
      He told his employees to change the sign, its the project leads responsibility to get the permissions in order.

  • @alden1132
    @alden1132 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The question of whether or not he's stupid aside, he DEFINITELY doesn't have the social awareness to realize whether he's the butt of the joke, or in on it.

  • @Zuneg
    @Zuneg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The whole "Twitter" to "X" thing reminded my the Simpsons episode, where Homer Simpson was mistaken for a genius and built the "Homer car".

  • @casbot71
    @casbot71 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2292

    IMHO Elon *never intended to go through with buying Twitter,* it was just another stock price manipulation attempt, and he got trapped into buying it.
    The original owners knew what he was up to because he's done so much price manipulation before (especially with crypto) that he'd become predictable ["Elons gonna Elon" - pentagon official when he kept jacking up the price of Starlink _after_ the Ukrainians became dependant on it].
    They set up the contracts _so he couldn't back out of the deal,_ and walked away with $44 Billion.
    They played Elon as they could see the angle of his con coming.

    • @themac6356
      @themac6356 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +297

      Pretty based of the original owners to fuck up Elon's plan (if what you say is true). Granted, only based in the sense that Elon was fucked over. In terms of Twitter’s workforce being let go, very unfortunate and pretty ridiculous that a majority were just let go like that.

    • @Erdanya
      @Erdanya 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +333

      Yeah you're quite right, IMO.
      People criticized Dorsey/Twitter a lot over the choices they've made running the platform, but that is often from a consumer point of view. But behind the scenes you have people running a business who are interested in very little else but money. Dorsey, being an actual coder and the guy who started it, might've been more attached, but even he knew that it was floating on investments (it was profitable in 2018 and 19, only) and wasn't likely to actually make money or get anywhere beyond where it was around 2020.
      Once Dorsey bailed in '21, that mostly left a Silicon Valley management who DGAF about the product beyond how much money they can get out of it, and people underestimate how GOOD some of these people are with that legal/corporate side of things.... and they played Musk's ego like a fiddle once they figured they could get more out of that sale than they'd *ever* make from it ever again.

    • @fellipedasilva99
      @fellipedasilva99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      I’ve heard of that, I wasn’t sure if it was true or just rumors. But I’m not surprised at all if that was the case. Funny as well lol.

    • @fupoflapo2386
      @fupoflapo2386 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I dont think anyone won in this deal

    • @StarCenturion
      @StarCenturion 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      @@fupoflapo2386 If one thing is for sure, the people lost.

  • @ziggytheassassin5835
    @ziggytheassassin5835 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1112

    I love how he tweeted out for X logo suggestions and got a ton of really cool ones, but then just used the X of some random font. Either he was drugged out when he made the decision, or he made the decision beforehand and just wanted to look like he was engaging with users.

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      It could be due to copyright, it might sound like a good idea at first but then his lawyers advised against it.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      @@-haclong2366 Quite possible. I have read that TV writers are often ordered to avoid engaging with any fan community for their show, because they might read a plot idea some fan comes up with and use it in the show.

    • @Oblivion___
      @Oblivion___ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@vylbird8014 Interacting with fans seems like a good idea at first, until you look at all the legal problems that come with it, and it goes from being a nice thing to being your worst nightmare.

    • @YouCaughtCzars
      @YouCaughtCzars 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      A part of me wonders if he picked something to match the giant glowing sign because it was all that was available on short notice.

    • @donniepayne9786
      @donniepayne9786 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And what exactly are your accomplishments compared to elon's

  • @eee32323
    @eee32323 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    i got banned from twitter for calling elon musk "melon husk" and i am glad i did

    • @UDontCare0
      @UDontCare0 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      liar

    • @josgretf2800
      @josgretf2800 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@UDontCare0 dude he'll ban people for calling him cis lmao. He's a baby with a fragile ego

    • @stanleylaw107
      @stanleylaw107 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      Elon even banned people on Twitter for spreading information regarding the location of his personal jet. Information that is publicly available for all from a legal crowdsourced public site. That's how petty and fragile Elon's ego is.

    • @Smiley_101
      @Smiley_101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      😂 I got ban from his site all the time for cursing 🤬 he ban me from freedom of speech 🎤 😅 .. what a 🤡 . Not like I cares to be there anyway

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I got timed out for telling him to fuck himself to death.
      so proud

  • @Jake-rs9nq
    @Jake-rs9nq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Remember when all those reddit fanboys kept spamming the internet with Elon Musk propaganda about 6-7 years ago? That was my first introduction to the 'image' of Elon Musk, and it was pretentious and cultish from the start.

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +580

    In other news, water is wet.

    • @TURBOMIKEIFY
      @TURBOMIKEIFY 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      It is not.

    • @theactualTVB
      @theactualTVB 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And the sky is blue

    • @davidcox4436
      @davidcox4436 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@theactualTVBnot here, it's mostly grey.

    • @erikno2992
      @erikno2992 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@TURBOMIKEIFY Water is wet because water molecules are touching eachother, if when something touches water it gets wet then as water is touching water it is wet too.
      A single water molecule wouldn't be wet but it is practically impossible to have one water molecule by itself.

    • @connie4334
      @connie4334 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I dead ass came to comment this

  • @vegamineral207
    @vegamineral207 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2552

    I remember when I was in college studying computer science everyone in the program (including myself) loved to idolize Musk and talk about what a genius he was. Now that we are all more mature, any time I talk to to someone in the software industry all we do is talk about how stupid he is. He is one of those guys who you look up to as a kid and then grow up realize you grew up with false idols

    • @jasminet3722
      @jasminet3722 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      literally me

    • @maroonblood151
      @maroonblood151 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      I wouldn't say he's 'stupid', but I also wouldn't idolize him as a genius.

    • @DylanDrinksWater
      @DylanDrinksWater 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

      He's above average intelligence in some ways but dumb in others
      Intelligence isn't one stat
      It's a spectrum of stats
      He's dumb in ways that make him lack some self awareness it seems
      Which makes him act a fool online sometimes

    • @vegamineral207
      @vegamineral207 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +157

      @@maroonblood151 perhaps stupid isn't the best word. Perhaps irrational is more fitting. Or even crazy. He is truly more than intelligent enough to be capable of understanding the consequences of his bad choices but his ego has left him so detached from reality that he can't any longer

    • @daslynnter9841
      @daslynnter9841 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Well my personal journey was idolizing what he wanted, and being completely dumbfounded when he actually tried to do it.
      I wanna get people to space and mars, i dont want to clutter orbit to that goal. I want electric cars, but not his smart shit boxes that weigh 9,000 pounds and lose horsepower overnight. I want public transport but not hyperloop nonsense. Etc. Everything he does is a terrible implementation of a good idea. So before he does something, its easy to empathize and support him. Luckily i was too young to buy into anything besides tesla. Woulda been smart to invest it them in hindsight.

  • @n0ham
    @n0ham 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    In a way I find it sadening that twitter got doomed like that.
    Yes, it is a very toxic plateform due to it's userbase, but it's concept was a great idea that no other social media apps could replicate.
    It wasn't plagued by stupid reels eveywhere (like every social media app today) and you could actually just comunicate with people on a large scale like it was intended to be, and it never tried to be something else then it's original premise until Musk arrived.
    I used to use the site to follow my favourite artists without the trouble of the app trying to look like tiktok but the incessant con ads and this stupid rebranding got me disgusted off of the plateform entirely.
    Really, f*ck Musk.

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      text base mass communication has been on the internet for decades
      nothing unique to twitter

    • @awsgamerguy
      @awsgamerguy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think you mean X

    • @michaelstaab2872
      @michaelstaab2872 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Go outside

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michaelstaab2872 wait til you learn about mobile apps

  • @nlpnt
    @nlpnt 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The only upside I see to X is that when he dumps what's left of it on a big-5 media conglomerate for $3-5 million they get to use "The Bird Is Back!" as a relaunch tagline.

  • @RIPCrazyFrog
    @RIPCrazyFrog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2357

    Elon seems to have a mind of an edgy 15 year old kid who thinks naming things "something-x" is cool.

    • @lssjgaming1599
      @lssjgaming1599 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

      He sure as hell acts like it too

    • @lIllIlllIlIllIlllIlIllIlllIl
      @lIllIlllIlIllIlllIlIllIlllIl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      Thinking about kids again huh?

    • @muttipi
      @muttipi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lIllIlllIlIllIlllIlIllIlllIl elon musk was photographed with ghislaine maxwell who helped jeffery epstein traffic children, he was also recently subpoenaed in a jeffery epstein case where he was allegedly referred to a bank by epstein.

    • @venmis137
      @venmis137 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

      Oh damn, last I heard he was an edgy 14 year old kid. It's good to see that he's maturing, albeit slowly.

    • @bryantgomez7135
      @bryantgomez7135 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      An edgy kid from the 1980s.

  • @elrondhubbard7059
    @elrondhubbard7059 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3345

    I think the greatest gift Musk has given us is that he has singlehandedly blown open the myth that the rich and powerful people who control this world are intelligent and skilled.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

      Be white, be tall, and tell plenty of clever lies.

    • @redrustyhill2
      @redrustyhill2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most are incompitent buffoons

    • @trollashnikovavtomat
      @trollashnikovavtomat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Yes because you hating on him in the comments shows us just how skilled and intelligent you are

    • @jinyoo2245
      @jinyoo2245 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +345

      ​@@trollashnikovavtomatNot necessarily, but that doesn't change anything they said about Elon. Maybe consider canceling that $8/month lil bro

    • @trollashnikovavtomat
      @trollashnikovavtomat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jinyoo2245 lmfao im not even on twitter, keep being butthurt that you'll never have 1/1000th of the sucess he's had

  • @dv6165
    @dv6165 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

    As the actual Elon Musk hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym I can vouch that everything mentioned in this video is correct and true.

    • @datjap8883
      @datjap8883 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Like the elon test account 😂

    • @ahmadahmal2942
      @ahmadahmal2942 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      SO basically Elon wants to copy WeChat.
      WeChat is the biggest and the most complex platform on the internet, nothing comes remotely close.
      - WeChat is more like a smartphone operating system than an app.
      - People in China practically live on WeChat as payment processing is more efficient than systems built on card-based architecture like google or Apple Pay.

    • @lolunicornsaj8907
      @lolunicornsaj8907 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I love you for this lmao

    • @westerling8436
      @westerling8436 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So It isn't?

    • @Dean-eb3sm
      @Dean-eb3sm 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      1:01 ​@@datjap8883

  • @simoneastmond3970
    @simoneastmond3970 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    this is proof that being rich doesn't mean you're smart

    • @DDMSakb48
      @DDMSakb48 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He must be the luckiest richest man in history
      lol

  • @Heyoka86
    @Heyoka86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2367

    Never before has a guy mythicized as a genius outed himself as a moron that quickly and irrefutably.

    • @DMC1982
      @DMC1982 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      E.Musk is the biggest scammer in the known universe.

    • @lukewarmwaterr
      @lukewarmwaterr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      you havent seen all the "refutations" by Elon stans then

    • @Okijuben
      @Okijuben 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      @@lukewarmwaterr Stans gonna Stan

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lukewarmwaterr you mean paid shills?

    • @rars0n
      @rars0n 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      To be fair, he's actually been working on it for quite a long time. See the Hyperloop, Solar City, everything he's ever said about AI or Neuralink or Mars, etc.

  • @VinceHere98
    @VinceHere98 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2631

    I’ll still call it Twitter, no matter how hard Elon tries to change its identity.

    • @venmis137
      @venmis137 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How could you be so bigoted??!?!?!?!

    • @lebronjericho6008
      @lebronjericho6008 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Rip twitter

    • @wilyriley_
      @wilyriley_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +165

      @@gnomefrompinkertonand I’m sure none of them will ever realise the irony

    • @kingofcards9516
      @kingofcards9516 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gnomefrompinkerton Twitter has always been a cesspool of political degenerates.
      The left wing were not better than the edgelords now.

    • @georhodiumgeo9827
      @georhodiumgeo9827 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I never got a Twitter account but now I want to get one just to call it Twitter. Or W, see I got rid of everything except the W.

  • @BrianS1981
    @BrianS1981 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    It's says much about the nature of internet companies that "stealing your identity and data" is what makes them "profitable".

  • @jackreads
    @jackreads 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I love the idea that an app/website that struggles to provide itss core functionality is going to do 'everything'. We all remember just a month ago when Twitter had to stop its users from being able to use it because they didn't pay a server bill.

  • @114418514
    @114418514 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

    "Don't call it twitter, call it X, and when people post on X, they do an X-crement" -found somewhere on the internet

    • @xXVibrantSnowXx
      @xXVibrantSnowXx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Xitter is better actually

    • @timetraveler7
      @timetraveler7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Man, I love X, I love receiving Xvideos on there, I love Elon Musk, hail Elon, hail Elon.

  • @DualEdgest
    @DualEdgest 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The Hyperloop didn't fail, it did exactly what it was intended to do: stop expansion of rail and bus services.

    • @AquaCoalaNest
      @AquaCoalaNest 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Even in Europe, since "Public transportation is a solved issue, just give this genius a few years, no need to do anything until." This was a good excuse back then.

  • @ricardoludwig4787
    @ricardoludwig4787 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I find the framing of "nothing of value was lost" just plain wrong because while twitter was terrible at most things, it was also one of the best place to get a following as an artist and work with comissions, its discovery algorithm worked decently well and the greater level of anonymity was actually great to allow for slightly more risky art not to ruin a person's IRL life if it didn't pan out; the website was still terrible and often undercut these advantages by being terrible, but something meainingful was lost

    • @ajitbalkawade
      @ajitbalkawade 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was a great platform for journalists as well. It was the only social media with social utility and that is what people In power didn't like about it.

  • @sinceremage9
    @sinceremage9 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I feel like Elon has become what his geeky past self thought would be cool. It seems like hes never really had to be responsible for anything failing and now his naivity is on full display.

  • @IAmNotAFunguy
    @IAmNotAFunguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +465

    Don't forget he did that stupid thing with the rate limits that one day, all because he made a change to the website that did not work correctly, and lead him to think the site was under attack.

    • @cadekachelmeier7251
      @cadekachelmeier7251 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      To be fair, getting people off of Twitter is a public good.

    • @firewoodloki
      @firewoodloki 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      And Reddit followed...

    • @kavky
      @kavky 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I thought it was to limit data scraping bots. I mean who tf scrolls through a thousand posts a day?

    • @thewerdna
      @thewerdna 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      ​@kavky repies count as tweets. So if you check repies at all (aka, actually engage at all) you can very easily and quickly reach the limit

    • @donniepayne9786
      @donniepayne9786 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Don't forget he has accomplished more by 9 a.m. Monday you than you have all your life

  • @robindevoh
    @robindevoh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +604

    I was catching shit for years when I told others I didn't like Musk and thought he was massively overrated. They said I was jealous or just 'didn't get it'. They've changed their minds since, I haven't had to.

    • @reprovedcandy
      @reprovedcandy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Same here. Ages ago when he first proposed the hyperloop my dad (a physicist w/ a phD from durham who worked on the development of better boring technologies for oil companies) ranted about how stupid his idea was and said there is no science to back what he's trying to do and that is was physically impossible to build a hyperloop. I thought my dad was jealous for awhile but I followed the project and realized it had become a total failure over time. I started hating that con artist after that.

    • @rev3274
      @rev3274 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's weird that you and your friends talk about Musk. Looking at the comments and all the "Elon haters" it's wildly apparent he lives in the brains of crazy people rather than the average citizen. I don't hate the guy, but he never crosses my mind until some moron needs to feel better by calling him "dumb". He hasn't done anything egregious, or that directly affects you, so the only reason you don't like him is because he does what he wants with his own money.
      Wow, must be really hard to live right now, huh?!

    • @CHIEF_420
      @CHIEF_420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rev3274🙈

    • @Yaltaforma
      @Yaltaforma 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      @@rev3274what? So what he did with twitter doesn’t affect its users? His political statements (of the richest man in the world) don’t affect the public? Does he need to personally come to my house and slap me in the face so that I’m allowed to talk about him?

    • @tr3vk4m
      @tr3vk4m 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      @@rev3274 Elon, is that you?

  • @Helicard
    @Helicard 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I downloaded Twitter and forgot about it. I found an app on my phone with an X in a folder. Took 10 minutes to realize what app I was using. The longest time I spent on the app.

  • @centurybug
    @centurybug 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The best way to make a small fortune: Start with a large fortune

  • @Ponicrat
    @Ponicrat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1390

    When you get right down to it, Elon Musk is a lottery winner, who thinks and has convinced his fanboys that winning the biggest jackpot makes him the best lottery player.

    • @user-ei5mt6ws9m
      @user-ei5mt6ws9m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      Yeah, won a lottery working his ass off in SpaceX and Tesla when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Also won the lottery on making Paypal with his brother from scratch

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-ei5mt6ws9m You really believe his stupid lies don't you?
      Paypal was one of the random investments he made with his daddy's emerald mine money that lucked out and got big. He then ran Paypal into the ground so hard that HE WAS FIRED, but because he was already wealthy he got a massive golden parachute which he then used for SpaceX and Tesla.
      SpaceX is continually held back by Musk and his stupid ideas. If he had only thrown his ill-earned money at them that would've been fine, but his rank idiocy keeps stressing the employees who do the real work out and leads to massive accidents.
      Tesla is a bunch of overpriced, overdesigned cars that are very unsafe and routinely catch fire.
      This isn't even getting into Musk's numerous stupid, go nowhere narcissistic projects like the Hyperloop and rebranding twitter.
      Elon Musk is a fraud born into obscene wealth who has never worked a day in his life and you are _pathetic_ for simping for him. Have an iota of self-respect.

    • @GRMNCVS
      @GRMNCVS 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

      @@user-ei5mt6ws9mLmao how can you be so gullible. Sure. Jeff Bezos also started by selling apples in the desert

    • @welfare_baybee
      @welfare_baybee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You sound salty.

    • @Rcb4th
      @Rcb4th 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-ei5mt6ws9mimagine getting millions to start a company and thinking that’s from scratch 😂😂

  • @rorbee
    @rorbee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +101

    i shit in solidarity with tyler's fun bucket

  • @reprovedcandy
    @reprovedcandy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    How do you build a $1B company?
    Buy a $20B company for $44B and then reduce its value by 95%.

  • @DoomFinger511
    @DoomFinger511 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At one point in the past Musk mentioned that he wanted to make a website or app that would be everything in one. That was his goal with 'X'. There are some platforms like this overseas. Grab is an app in Asia that is basically Uber, Amazon, Doordash, Google Maps, and Whatsapp, all in one. Everyone in Thailand and several other Asian countries use it. I think Musk is hoping to achieve something like this with Twitter.

  • @ffejpsycho
    @ffejpsycho 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    He bought Twitter for 1 reason...
    => His ass was forced to cash a cheque his mouth had very loudly written.

  • @UnderTheGoldenGate
    @UnderTheGoldenGate 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Elon has gone insane. His behavior is very similar to several friends of mine who had their first big failure in life and went insane. Well in this context, I mean out of touch with reality. They all couldn't accept that they failed, and that they are not as talented or blessed as they thought they were, and started resorting to behavior that created a spacial warp around them to bend reality so they didn't see problems, solutions, and failures.

    • @virtualworldsbyloff
      @virtualworldsbyloff 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      He has always been insane, some people just take 10 years to spot it

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      "has gone" implies "was not previously"
      Apparently you need to study Elon's past more

    • @Feefa99
      @Feefa99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I don't want to start heated discussion, but apparently Elon Musk is antisemitic, it's like he wants to experience same character arc of Henry Ford

    • @yondie491
      @yondie491 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Feefa99 sourceless accusation of antisemitism when most people already know the accusations... boiling down a very flawed and complex man of the past to a simple stereotype... superb job and not starting a discussion. you'll do well on the internet

    • @Feefa99
      @Feefa99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yondie491 The worlds richest man is blaming jews because his shit throwing isn't turning into gold. This is compatible with every antisemitism before WW2. FU

  • @ZelphTheWebmancer
    @ZelphTheWebmancer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The only thing I disagree with is that "Nothing of value was lost." At the contrary. Now a days social media is huge for business (being companies or people that make their business online), and the xitting of Twitter made the site uninhabitable for advertisers, and by consequence, for users and business. A lot of value was lost even if the site was never that great.
    Although users will migrate (and are doing so as of now) the migration of audience, which is vital for online business, is slow and usually hurts smaller business.

  • @1Kent
    @1Kent 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    He never had much going on between his ears.
    He's just a lucky Rich Boy.

  • @Chord_
    @Chord_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    The Party Boy/Drug-Binging Connection you drew is something I'd never considered before, but fuuuuck me, it starts making things make sense

    • @etienne2315
      @etienne2315 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think its also just general billionaire brainrot, if you are surrounded by yesman who will tell you all day you are the greatest genius who ever lived, then you will follow through on decisions most people would say are moronic.

    • @morninboy
      @morninboy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Just like Obama

    • @88_TROUBLE_88
      @88_TROUBLE_88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@morninboy ..or Trudeau

    • @BigWheel.
      @BigWheel. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe, but it is predicated on the assumption he is a proper drug addict and that drug addicts are inherently unable to control their lives or manage anything and that's not really true. Neither is the idea that doing weed or DMT is going to make you belive stupid shit. Elon, very likely would be just as "dumb" without the drugs as he is with them.
      I genuinely don't think that's it. Seems way too convenient and is based on stereotypes and assumptions.

    • @vaultdweller1386
      @vaultdweller1386 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BigWheel. While it probably isn't making him dumber per se it could be making him more impulsive, we all know someone who acts increasingly more stupid while drunk who is normally rather restrained. Doesn't seem unlikely Musk's drug habits are making him more impulsive as he continues to feed into it.

  • @justinwatson1510
    @justinwatson1510 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +871

    It takes a true genius to dress up an intern to look like a robot to lie to shareholders.

    • @mjbaricua7403
      @mjbaricua7403 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      Or a ketamine addict

    • @oscarhagman8247
      @oscarhagman8247 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      wait what, did he actually do this? 😂

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      @@oscarhagman8247 Yes, there's a video of his vaporware AI semisentient cyborg robot homunculus (those don't all go together, but felt musky) only there's a no hardware but there is IS a guy in tights doing The Robot.

    • @dannydetonator
      @dannydetonator 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Or it takes a quick lesson from Russia-24, doing the exact same thing in Youth technology forum in 2018. His name was Boris, , or betterk own as Alyosha the robot. I wonder does everyone laugh at Tesla-bot as much as at Russian internal state-propaganda.. Or is Tesla-bot actually on market now?

    • @Helperbot-2000
      @Helperbot-2000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@BaronVonQuiply well its lore accurate for things musk say to not make sense together so ill say it works

  • @Mojken_yakionigiri
    @Mojken_yakionigiri 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The relationship between companies and people is technically parasitic, not symbiotic.

  • @robertkerr4199
    @robertkerr4199 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'd be rich too if I inherited a fortune in blood diamonds...

  • @sl33penjoy3r
    @sl33penjoy3r 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +380

    he filmed himself carrying a sink into his giant money toilet to make a pun and still expects to be taken seriously. i swear rich guy divorce court can magnify even the biggest inherent flaws

    • @AZ-ib8uf
      @AZ-ib8uf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      let that "sink" in for a moment lol

    • @maroonblood151
      @maroonblood151 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He doesn't take Twitter seriously that's why. He has stated it's not on the same level as Tesla or SpaceX.

    • @davidbrockmeier9538
      @davidbrockmeier9538 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Oh. I thought he was carrying the sink in to imply that he was "throwing out everything, including the kitchen sink."

    • @Synthonym
      @Synthonym 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I mean we all knew at the time that he'd sink the company

    • @disposable_income_andy
      @disposable_income_andy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      theres a fake video of him in a zoom call talking about putting ball-warming technology in a car, but it's believable because hes so unfunny and its something he'd actually say so his reddit fanboy cult would eat it up

  • @robertoXCX
    @robertoXCX 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +314

    I don't think the lesson should be "don't do drugs, kids" it should be more like "don't believe egomaniacal supervillains, kids"

    • @nenasadie
      @nenasadie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Underrated comment.

    • @kardoxfabricanus7590
      @kardoxfabricanus7590 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Especially when that villain is on ketamine.
      My god I've done plenty of psychedelics but I am staying away from ketamine cause I've seen people become delusional In unimaginable ways with that shit.

    • @prozacdick
      @prozacdick 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kardoxfabricanus7590drugs are not the problem, only how they are used. Know the effects and the risks involved if you want to take any drug and then decide for yourself. Stay away from whatever you would like, just don’t apply your experience to everyone else’s. stay safe.

    • @stereo-soulsoundsystem5070
      @stereo-soulsoundsystem5070 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sell egomaniacal supervillains drugs, kids

    • @nonegone7170
      @nonegone7170 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's always funny to me how Musk compares himself to JC Denton from Deus Ex, whilst actually being Bob Page.

  • @andreeberhardt7418
    @andreeberhardt7418 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In Germany, there is a pretty old saying: "Ein Satz mit X, das war wohl nix!" That translates very roughly to: "Unpredictable factor X in your equation - worthless!" However, King Elon, The Great Regulator brought new life to it.

  • @Bigsolrac
    @Bigsolrac 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The everything app, is like a multi tool that has so many tools that ends up cumbersome and not one of the tools performs better than a separate too for a specific job.

  • @ArchOfWinter
    @ArchOfWinter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +144

    It would have been so much easier on everyone to just pull a Zuck or Google and create a new parent company. Zuck created Meta and brought Facebook and Instagram under it without rebranding them to Metabook or Metagram. Google did the same with Alphabet.
    Probably would have gone a lot better if Musk said Twitter will be brought under the X family and will be seamlessly integrated into future X money service and other things.

    • @fduranthesee
      @fduranthesee 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      "Metagram" sounds like a new/fancy unit of measurement, "Metabook" sounds like some dystopian novel's version of The Bible.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@fduranthesee The prefix "meta" comes from a greek word meaning 'beyond' or something similar. In modern usage it usually means something more like 'transcending one level removed.'
      Metadata is data about data.
      A meta-study is a study of other studies.
      Meta the company means nothing, it's just a cool-sounding word that sounds technical. Although it could be described as a 'meta-company' because, as a holding company, it does nothing except own other companies.

    • @ABUBBA22
      @ABUBBA22 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think twitter is intended to be the hub site for X Corp and that's why it's rebranded. He didn't buy twitter for the branding, he was paying for the millions of users who are now automatically registered for whatever Musk had planned next for his web3.0 scheme.

    • @MeatballYaro2
      @MeatballYaro2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      How dare you make a rational thought

    • @cykeok3525
      @cykeok3525 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      That would have been a good move. Maintain the Twitter brand (it's still very valuable), yet indirectly use it to promote his money services.
      Unfortunately for him, it looks like that ship has pretty much sailed, though.

  • @EisenSMT
    @EisenSMT 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +322

    I mean we all know that
    -Him buying twitter
    -Him renaming Twitter
    -Basically all his decisions over the last 3 years
    Have been prefaced by the phrase "you know what would he hilarious?" followed by a long drag of a joint. The man's having his midlife crisis and unfortunately he's rich enough that he can take the rest of us down with him

    • @barrag3463
      @barrag3463 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honestly he won't even really be able to take many other people down with him either. If twitter just disappeared tomorrow it'd be a little inconvenient for some, but the world would keep turning. Tesla and SpaceX both have had competitors creeping up on them in the last 5-6 years. Other car manufacturers starting to put more serious effort into EVs and getting theirs out in a much shorter amount of time than Tesla, because they have much larger pre-established production bases than Tesla. NASA is finally getting off it's ass and starting to actually put more time into their own rocket programs again, which means Spacex is going to have to compete with much larger and more established aerospace companies (Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and Northrup-Grumman) for contracts in the future. Hell, a good amount of the concepts that went into SpaceX's development came from previous research done by NASA, that NASA just didn't develop further because "it wasn't worth the cost" (ie congress or the fed didn't want to fund it).
      The only reason Elon seems super important to anyone is because he has worked to build that image and implant it in everyone's heads.

    • @smokeyplane3285
      @smokeyplane3285 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      "the rest of us"
      this only effects twitter users?

    • @fanban2926
      @fanban2926 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Who is the rest of us????

    • @placeholdername0000
      @placeholdername0000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      SpaceX will survive, due to the US gov wanting an advantage in space, even if it has to go to someone else. Tesla will become a battery maker with the car department bought by GM or whatever. The Boring Co is probably fucked and Shitter is going in the Shitter.

    • @ignisterzone5399
      @ignisterzone5399 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      That and divorced dad syndrome.

  • @somedudeok1451
    @somedudeok1451 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You say you don't want to touch any *politics* here, but this whole thing is political. The domain of politics includes what egotistical billionares can and cannot do. It includes the question, if they're allowed to put up a brightly strobing sign that is so shoddily put together that it could fall over during a storm and kill people walking below. It also includes the question of what kind of people we want our economic system to promote to such powerful positions and if we could make our society more meritocratic instead of oligarchic.

  • @RRW359
    @RRW359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I started hating him when he started interfering with transit projects but I think the Twitter fiasco has turned him from generally loved with haters like me being a minority to the public hating him and fans being a slight minority.

  • @lennycrew3
    @lennycrew3 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +591

    As much as I despise Elon Musk and his politics, I have to thank him for one thing: helping me end my Twitter addiction

    • @onionfarmer3044
      @onionfarmer3044 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      What are his politics?

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@onionfarmer3044 Whatever he's told his politics are. These people don't do research, they don't look or really care. They just want some "other" to pile their obvious prejudice on.

    • @uberbyte7467
      @uberbyte7467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@onionfarmer3044 diddling children, musk was a good pal of ole epstein

    • @nonegone7170
      @nonegone7170 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@malcontender6319 Ah yes, you know so much better of course.
      Your esoteric internet knowledge is to be respected sir.

    • @Rodoet001
      @Rodoet001 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      @@onionfarmer3044 Mostly whatever will net him the most attention. But among some of the ones who seem to stick are anti-trans (has shown hints of just being kind of anti-LGBT in general), anti-feminism, pro-decentralised currency, espoused rethoric of neo-concervatism, neo-liberalism, anarcho-liberalism, and futurism, he's pro-Russia and pro-Putin (or at the very least admire the man quite a bit), he is against wistle blowers and would like there to be laws against them, he hates unions of all kinds, he has on multiple occasions expressed antisemitism, he has flip-floped a few times on the matter of copyright in the past but now seems to be pro-copyright, and he has on multiple occasions said he want less people to be able to vote.
      In regards to less people being able to vote, who those people are have changed I think twice now with the latest being that only parents should vote though I can't recal off-the-top-of-my-head if he's said anything about the suggestion to raise the voting age in the US to 25 so it's possible it has changed again.
      And that's the ones that seems to be reoccuring and sticking around. Other than those examples he has made quite a few other openly political and politically charged statements but those seems to have been either jokes, manipulative hype making, or to garner attention, and has not stuck around.

  • @TheChees1996
    @TheChees1996 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1139

    The worst thing he did is block people from browsing twitter unless you make an account.

    • @dannydetonator
      @dannydetonator 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      And then there's naive me, thinking i could read posts without registering.. YT is only and last social place i've used for a year.
      FU Neil Mohan!

    • @Helperbot-2000
      @Helperbot-2000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@dannydetonator no discord? discords really useful to talk with people

    • @jcc.21
      @jcc.21 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      @@Helperbot-2000discord kinda mid too many ppl that take the internet seriously

    • @Helperbot-2000
      @Helperbot-2000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jcc.21 and the alternative? im not going to be able to talk with people a continent away across an ocean in person, and discord has alot of really useful features

    • @mooganify
      @mooganify 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      its always been like that

  • @henrikhumle7255
    @henrikhumle7255 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Every offhanded mention in the public sphere, every political debate, every pop-culture reference... literally all of that free advertising is now gone. Permanently. Because none of it refers back to the site anymore.
    The lingo, referring to the bird, to "tweets" or "tweeting" - phrases that have entered the mainstream in the same way as "googling"; a kind of brand-association that most companies could only dream of - is gone. Rendered inert.
    It's genuinely difficult to explain exactly how dumb this single decision is. It's difficult to overstate how badly Musk needed to *NOT* do literally just this one thing. At this point, he may as well just have spent all that money he spent acquiring Twitter on programmers instead, in order to build his own alternative. The only thing he got in the deal was the brand, and now he's thrown that out, leaving him with nothing but an increasingly reviled and irrelevant platform, whose space in mainstream culture is now an unknown quantity.
    I mean, sure. Let this be the litmus test; if Musk somehow manages to turn this ship around and make "X" a profitable venture that we'll all come to care about, then he genuinely is a business genius.

  • @SweD5425
    @SweD5425 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can't get over "retweets" being renamed to "reposts." It went from it's own catchy little thing to, "I'm going to go send some mail."

  • @cinderefell1399
    @cinderefell1399 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    I hadn't even known that Twitter turned to X. I saw it in my apps on my phone and thought it was malicious. So, ya know, I deleted it.

    • @MustraOrdo
      @MustraOrdo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      smartest thing to ever do regardless

    • @KufLMAO
      @KufLMAO 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      rip

    • @ElecWaff
      @ElecWaff 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Implying twitter wasn’t malicious beforehand

    • @88_TROUBLE_88
      @88_TROUBLE_88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is the 1st Ive heard of it just now hahaha guess Im out of the loop and didnt get the memo..

  • @sunkcostfallacy2738
    @sunkcostfallacy2738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    I literally just deactivated my Twitter, sorry, "X" account when I saw the update. It's just too stupid for me to remain a part of it. I felt nothing as I did it. Years of tweets obliterated in a single moment, and I felt nothing. I'm free.

    • @birdman9860
      @birdman9860 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      How is Threads?

    • @sunkcostfallacy2738
      @sunkcostfallacy2738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@birdman9860 No idea how it works. I just made the account. It's certainly different from Twitter. Usually when I first install an app, it takes me forever to get interested in it. Hell, I'm still trying to give a shit about Tik Tok, and I've had it for almost a year.

    • @sunkcostfallacy2738
      @sunkcostfallacy2738 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@birdman9860 Took me legitimately like 5 years to start using Twitter regularly, and I was still never all that attached to it. It was just something to do while I was taking a shit, waiting for the train, or on break at work.

    • @Unknownlng
      @Unknownlng 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@birdman9860 Idk but it sure has resulted in a few peoples instagrams getting deleted lol

    • @Supershadow301
      @Supershadow301 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good riddance!

  • @sarakajira
    @sarakajira 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I gotta know where you got your ending theme song hahahaha

  • @manfreddawg
    @manfreddawg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I like it how people really believed him he wasnt supported financially by his father. Truly a self made man 😂😂😂 whoever believes that is crazy

  • @VexAcer
    @VexAcer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +357

    Honestly when he made the acquisition, I didn't expect much to change. Normally with stuff like this the changes are very gradual over time or imperceptible to the users.
    It's funny how much worse the site got after all the incompetent decisions that have been made.

    • @sanantohomie
      @sanantohomie 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he could have just kept his fat mouth shut and raked in cash but instead he had to open it to show people how stupid he really is, just like the trump presidency... both of them, all you had to do was COAST and whatever mythology the PUBLIC made of you but instead they rekt themselves! No sympathy for those idiots.

    • @SangoProductions213
      @SangoProductions213 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      He literally said repeatedly that he'd change it almost entirely.
      How could you think anything... oh.

    • @just_your_localguard9612
      @just_your_localguard9612 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      site was already tanking way before Elon tho, like Twitter had to filled void with bots.

    • @VexAcer
      @VexAcer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@just_your_localguard9612 Oh yeah don't get me wrong, it already had issues beforehand. It's just funny how all the changes just made the site worse to use and addressed none of the problems from before.
      Except Community Notes, that's literally the only good thing we've gotten.

    • @lulyhead
      @lulyhead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Twitter is bigger than ever before? Meta even tried to copy them and failed miserably? If Elon Musk didn't buy twitter they were set to bankrupt between months? Oh you don't have a brain and don't care about the actual facts just want to complain about someone you hate for no reason, my bad

  • @skaruts
    @skaruts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +601

    Twitter was a very good place for artists, entertainers, game developers, and many other people to provide quick updates about their work to their followers. A lot of people tend to have a very narrow perspective of twitter (including Musk) and don't really see all that was going on there. Twitter was actually useful to many people.

    • @Very_Silly_Individual
      @Very_Silly_Individual 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      Wasn't very good for speaking your mind, though, which was the entire point of the website.

    • @AR-24
      @AR-24 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I see from the average consumer perspective, as well as the more not so safe works perspective. Twitter was a great place for both and managed to separate them both pretty well back then, no discrimination of either too.

    • @skaruts
      @skaruts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Very_Silly_Individual when you're inside private property, you follow the rules of the owners. And nothing changed with Musk. Especially since he only advocates for free speech during interviews.

    • @Very_Silly_Individual
      @Very_Silly_Individual 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@kemist578 huh, I've experienced significantly less banning. Maybe you're just a loose cannon 💀

    • @phutureproof
      @phutureproof 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      bear in mind the vast majority of people on the planet don't use twitter at all

  • @jerodwolf5582
    @jerodwolf5582 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It takes a village to raise a company, but it takes one idiot to burn it all down

  • @rustyshell2
    @rustyshell2 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dumb question, what is the song that plays at the end?

  • @fXInn14
    @fXInn14 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +921

    Musk had literally one of the most effective propaganda machines of modern times genuinely convincing alot of people he was a real life superhero and threw it all away after watching too much Tucker Carlson 💀

    • @rainofrest7778
      @rainofrest7778 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      💀

    • @WarlockInTraining
      @WarlockInTraining 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just like how Joe Biden convince most Americans he would be a good president and Harris a good Vice President? 💀

    • @joshfritz5345
      @joshfritz5345 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      He let people speak without being censored. That's a good thing.

    • @guitarded55
      @guitarded55 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

      @@joshfritz5345 except that Elon bows to every bigger player asking him to do censorship (government of India for example)

    • @m3371
      @m3371 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joshfritz5345 he has accepted most government requests to employ censorship on his platform since buying it

  • @MarcStollmeyer
    @MarcStollmeyer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +198

    My favorite part of the Twitter purchase was he started by buying 10% of it and went after joining the Board… until he found out they do in depth background checks on all board members and he suddenly backed out. Then his fan boys started doubting him so he decided to buy the whole company as a 4D chess move… like what? Oh and the background check leaked that he sexually harassed a flight attendant and paid her $250k to keep quiet.

    • @goshawk4340
      @goshawk4340 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Most of the Mee too accusations were false. With no punishment if made up.

    • @firecatskylar
      @firecatskylar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@goshawk4340ok if thata true show stats. Show that most of the Me Too people were lying

    • @goshawk4340
      @goshawk4340 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@firecatskylar look at the amber heard Johny deep trail. Women don't get punished for a false accusations and get rewarded if the guy doesn't carry proof of location.
      Justin Bieber got a false accusations by a fan. He only didn't get sentenced because he had proof that he was a hotel in a different country on the day he allegedly had relations with the woman.
      If you don't get punished for false accusations then you have no down side to accuse someone.

    • @sighup7663
      @sighup7663 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +84

      @@goshawk4340 There very much are options to sue false accusers in the US legal system. Also paying someone off with so much money doesn't exactly indicate a false accusation.

    • @SteakFromJakeFarm777
      @SteakFromJakeFarm777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@goshawk4340it’s not polite to speak with your mouth full of Elon meats…

  • @deejnutz2068
    @deejnutz2068 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I swear i remember hearing all of this 8 years ago with tesla and space x.

  • @tezz_27_
    @tezz_27_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the picture at 9:38 does anyone know where it's from?

  • @Midnight-Starfish
    @Midnight-Starfish 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    I always saw his acquisition of Twitter as a rich person's way of poorly handling his divorce and children disowning him. Like, he's trying to have some semblance of control in his life and he went overboard with it that cost him $44 billion dollars.

    • @Ildarioon
      @Ildarioon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He sleeps around. He already has 10 children and touched seemingly every woman out there, even Amber Heard had a go.

    • @slimyelow
      @slimyelow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I luv your analysis. I'm no shrink, but It fits perfectly.

    • @HeavyMetalGamingHD
      @HeavyMetalGamingHD 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      44 billion he did not have. He has to make insane interest payments for twitter. more than a billion per year. And he can't even sell it off, because it absolutely tanked in value. this could literally lead to his ruin. the only good way for him to get liquid money is to sell off tesla stocks. and selling his tesla stocks will also tank tesla's value.

    • @Midnight-Starfish
      @Midnight-Starfish 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@HeavyMetalGamingHD The rich may never face justice, but karma tastes just as sweet to me

    • @DeadKraken
      @DeadKraken 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@HeavyMetalGamingHD The day Twitter definitively dies, I will weep, since I've been using it effectively to post my art and is the only big social media that permits NSFW and porn, but knowing that that day Melon Husk will also lose everything......well it's a good trade😌👌

  • @emPtysp4ce
    @emPtysp4ce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    Watching Elon talk about the software engineering of Twitter when I know a thing or two about code makes me think Elon has never had a coherent thought in his life.

    • @just_some_greek_dude
      @just_some_greek_dude 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yea I mean this is the guy who everyone was saying he created a video game before he was 12?

    • @emPtysp4ce
      @emPtysp4ce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @just_some_greek_dude The lines of code thing was what really convinced me. Bad programmers write two lines of code a day, average programmers write 40 lines of code a day, good programmers write two lines of code a day. And the truly skilled veterans write -2 lines of code a day

    • @tinonoman5831
      @tinonoman5831 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@emPtysp4ce Huh?

    • @emPtysp4ce
      @emPtysp4ce 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @tinonoman5831 A good programmer can do in two lines what a less skilled one will need 40 to do, and a really good programmer can make other people's code more efficient.

    • @tinonoman5831
      @tinonoman5831 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@emPtysp4ce Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. I am a data engineer, been programming for about 7 years. My code definitely follows this rule as I become more experienced.

  • @randomdude8877
    @randomdude8877 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Xitter to Xeet Khajit got a good laugh out of me. Thanks lol

  • @larrisAWSOME
    @larrisAWSOME 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's nice seeing more people finally realize what I've known for years.

  • @dr_birb
    @dr_birb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    "hes good at getting good people to work for him" that's a weird way to say he's rich

    • @Videohead-eq5cy
      @Videohead-eq5cy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "He's good at being born into inheriting an Emerald mine that uses slavery" didnt have a good ring to it

  • @croozerdog
    @croozerdog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +504

    guys he's actually really smart because he bought a bunch of smart people's work with his dads emerald mine money without having to think himself, you should all just buy stuff with your dads emerald money :)

    • @Discounted
      @Discounted 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Seems like he managed to get quite a big ROI to become the richest person on earth just from an emerald mine.

    • @Letsplay222
      @Letsplay222 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I once read that Musk offered a million dollars to anyone that could provide proof that he benefitted from an emerald mine. Nobody ever took Musk up on that offer.

    • @ihl0700677525
      @ihl0700677525 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol. Elon is such controversial figure. It seems that third of the population worship Elon, while the other third truly hate him.
      IMO, as the third group who neither worship nor hate Elon, he's obviously no genius, but not stupid either. His passion on EV and space exploration is real and he gambled everything on these things.
      Somehow it works, maybe he's truly visionary, or maybe it was blind luck. Either way, he is what he is, he deserves his fame and current success.
      No amount of praise and no amount of mockery could ever change it. Elon is an eccentric and obnoxious man-child, but also one of the richest and most influential person alive.
      Thanks to his "vision" (or, alternatively, his bloated ego and megalomania) we could experience this worldwide EV revolution, and the new space race led by private sector.
      So, yeah, Elon, you are such obnoxious man-child, but I applaud your work and legacy. Well done.

    • @Ralofguy
      @Ralofguy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      i wish my dad had a emerald mine :(

    • @racool911
      @racool911 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@DiscountedIkr how profitable was the damn emerald mine lmao

  • @fireblast133
    @fireblast133 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This rebranding to X has inadvertently caused a resurgence in the toilet fire that was “Foodfight”. Because the villain was known as ‘Brand X’

  • @mrknopester
    @mrknopester 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What's the name of the song at the end?

  • @NeutralGuyDoubleZero
    @NeutralGuyDoubleZero 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +574

    $40+ billion to just throw it all into the trash anyway lol

    • @dpactootle2522
      @dpactootle2522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Imagine that. Broke people telling the richest guy in the world that he is stupid. HOW STUPID IS THAT?, jajajajajajaja

    • @dpactootle2522
      @dpactootle2522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      when you get even $4 spare millions to trash, you earn the right to criticize Musk. For now, you are the moron and Musk is the genius.

    • @dpactootle2522
      @dpactootle2522 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Correction: $4 million DOES NOT give you the right to criticize Musk. You will need $40 spare billions

    • @jocaleb0236
      @jocaleb0236 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dpactootle2522 so, i can't criticize Kim jong un or whatever his fucking name is? He has an entire country in his pocket. Albeit a poor one but still an entire country, he owns a country. So I can't criticize him until I also own a country?

    • @josevictorribeirolisboa7576
      @josevictorribeirolisboa7576 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@dpactootle2522He is still stupid, as are you for defendind him like he cares about you or even knows you exist. If anything he would spit on your face for not being part of the "elite"

  • @MisterZimbabwe
    @MisterZimbabwe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +578

    He's good at getting talented people to work for him because he has enough money to entice them to put up with his awfulness. Which isn't really a talent, "having money" isn't some inherent skill, as he clearly evidences.

    • @fanban2926
      @fanban2926 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Huh? That's not it. He doesn't have money, not at all. The valuation actually comes from those talented people WILLINGLY working. That's where valuation comes from, not the other way around.

    • @MisterZimbabwe
      @MisterZimbabwe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

      @@fanban2926 Willingly working for a fat enough paycheck to put up with him running around the SpaceX offices and screaming at the engineering teams when they tell him "Your idea is impossible to enact based on the known laws of physics".
      And the valuation comes from product demos mostly, and/or product proposals. Half of which are just Elon running his mouth with zero understanding of what is actually feasible. Remember his Tesla android that was just a dude in a suit? He literally pushes bullshit first and then expects the actually smart and talented people to pull miracles out of their ass and just invent solutions to problems modern science has been already slowly grinding away at for the last century.

    • @AZaqZaqProduction
      @AZaqZaqProduction 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      His companies actually famously pay below market rate for engineers.

    • @jimhalpert0
      @jimhalpert0 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ok clown, let's see you do the same

    • @Studeb
      @Studeb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@MisterZimbabwe I think most of the people working under him would earn more elsewhere, he has managed to inspire people far smarter than him to make him enormously wealthy, that is his biggest skill. For some reason it seems bullet proof, no matter how much evidence you show these people, they will just stand by him.

  • @Marconius6
    @Marconius6 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You said an everything app in a free market is impossible, but I will point out LINE exists too, and that's not in China. It is mostly popular in more insular, non-English markets though, so that definitely helps.

  • @KyrenDinh
    @KyrenDinh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "If everyone can be verified, no one can"
    That really isn't the nature of the problem. You could verify everyone and have it be a good thing. The problem is that no effort is going into verifying anyone's identity, so it's verification in name only

    • @raygunsforronnie847
      @raygunsforronnie847 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      VINO. Has a nice sound to it. Red, white, or blush?

  • @Dayanto
    @Dayanto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +501

    Contrary to popular belief, Twitter wasn't really doing poorly financially. They had basically no debt, and while they've invested a lot into the company and been slightly in the negative many years, they've also managed to pull in over a billion dollars in net profits at least once in recent years.
    The big issue is the giant debt that Musk took on. When you're paying >25% of your entire revenue in just interest payments it is hard to grow (or even sustain) your company.
    This loan doesn't even benefit the company in any way. The money all went to paying off the former owners.

    • @fawfulfan
      @fawfulfan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Eh, they only barely managed to turn a profit for two years and were back in the red when Musk took over. Things got much worse under Musk but it wasn't a great business model even before him.

    • @Ealsante
      @Ealsante 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      @@fawfulfan Turning a profit for two years is better than Uber, Lyft or Snap were ever able to manage.

    • @fawfulfan
      @fawfulfan 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@Ealsante yeah, well those companies have poor business models too. Why not compare to something like, say, Amazon?

    • @wizardhacker2887
      @wizardhacker2887 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      @@fawfulfanbecause they are totally separate types of businesses. Lyft, Uber and twitter don’t generally sell physical items while Amazon does. It’s like comparing Amazon with Visa and Master card totally separate businesses

    • @svancina
      @svancina 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Revenue is not profit. They never made a billion in profit.

  • @ThatOneREDScout
    @ThatOneREDScout 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +281

    I like titles that are truthful and to the point. This is up there in one of the best.

    • @morninboy
      @morninboy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black not knowing it is stainless steel.

    • @88_TROUBLE_88
      @88_TROUBLE_88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@morninboy Good point

    • @kappadarwin9476
      @kappadarwin9476 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I have to agree Elon is stupid, Brand recognition is a powerful thing that can make and break companies.

    • @morninboy
      @morninboy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kappadarwin9476 The Elon haters entertain me. Please list your amazing accomplishments and let me know if you are stupider.
      Na, you don't have to respond after rereading your comment

    • @kappadarwin9476
      @kappadarwin9476 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@morninboy A man who gets rid of one of the most recognizable social media brand names in the world for the letter "x" is an idiot. There isn't any other way to put it.

  • @jazzygryphon
    @jazzygryphon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I won't be surprised if it gets to a point where Twitter, or "X" whatever lol, makes you pay to send out tweets. And I think that would be the final nail in the coffin.

  • @ZalexMusic
    @ZalexMusic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just about everything you've said here is pretty right on. But respectfully, blaming psychedelics is lazy and straight from the DARE playbook.
    I also like the theory that some unknown party is blackmailing Elon into ruining the best way to get real time news and discourse.

  • @STICKOMEDIA
    @STICKOMEDIA 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    This video just made me remember NFTs and crypto, ah... those times feel like ages ago

  • @nathanphillipsgo
    @nathanphillipsgo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    A video to save and re-watch in a year.

  • @NoxiiousGaming
    @NoxiiousGaming 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is the name of the outro song?

  • @patchnpaw15
    @patchnpaw15 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The chance to say "You go to Xitter to Xeet" was right there smh