Elon Musk Messes Around And Finds Out
December 5, 2022
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as posted by the channelElon Musk's downfall and destruction of Twitter has ripple effects for the social media platforms dedicated community. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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"So it happened. We thought maybe that cringey SNL appearance would have satiated his “anti-woke” crusade, but we were wrong. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, took an amount of money that could put a big dent in world hunger, or the housing crisis, to buy … Twitter.
In some ways it’s fitting that Musk paid far too much to own the saddest social media platform. Twitter is, after all, what traumatized nobodies who refuse to go to therapy treat as both their best friend that can’t keep a secret, and the kind of running conversation you would find on a bathroom stall door. It’s a blanket fort with a one-way mirror for all to gawk. And Elon, the most fragile and petty of our billionaires, fits right in with its tantrums and hysterics. He is living proof that money cannot buy happiness, even if it can buy you hair.
Now Musk has to make Twitter profitable, and he’ll probably make it to Mars first. He is lodged in the bowels of the most public financial blunder since Kanye decided his hill to die on was antisemitism. And the boss man is being epically dunked on, right there on his own platform, for such absurdities as banning anyone who impersonates him, while advocating for free speech. Or firing half his workforce only to rehire some of them because he needs their help. Or trying to charge $8 a month for a blue check mark. It’s a pretty cathartic way for a billionaire vanity project to end."
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