Big Baby Elon Musk Has Threatened To Quit Twitter Because Someone Asked Him To Credit An Artist
Elon's gonna Elon.
Elon Musk is a walking, whining example of the old adage that having lots of money doesn’t make you happy.
The Space X and Paypal tech titan has more money than God, and could literally spend every last waking minute he has left on Earth giving his money to charitable causes and travelling the world solving people’s problems like Moe in the epilogue of that one episode of The Simpsons.
Hell, even if he wasn’t feeling charitable, he could always just hole himself up in one of his many houses and watch Neon Genesis Evangelion on Netflix with his fellow weeb and life partner Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes.
I’m confused why so many people like Elon Musk
Is it just because he memes and says he likes anime tits
— Zenrotto #PlayPitterPatterPop (@Zenrotto) June 17, 2019
But instead of doing either of those things, Musk has decided instead to transform into a perpetually whiny edgelord, one who spends his days causing fights on Twitter, smoking weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and generally just schlepping about the place like a blight on everyone’s time and attention.
As part of his most recent pivot to troll, Musk has kicked up a stink over — of all things — a fight whether he should credit a fan drawing dedicated to the video game Nier: Automata.
*sees elon musk repost uncredited art* You Bitch Mother Fucker *sees elon musk violate labor laws* Wlel, that's his beliefs and I respect that
— venven (@venven___) June 17, 2019
As soon as Musk posted the picture, which the 47-year-old presumably found while trawling 4chan or some shit, Twitter users encouraged him to properly credit the artist, to which he replied, quite simply, with ‘No’.
When pushed to elaborate, the CEO claimed that giving artists their proper dues is “destroying the medium.”
Not really clear what medium he’s talking about there, given that artists have been signing their name to their work since literally the era of cave paintings. But hey, Elon’s gotta Elon, particularly if it involves exploiting the hard labour of other human beings.
I think it’s pretty justified. Someone spent a long time on that picture and he stole it without proper credit, even after many people told him to, going as far as to say that artists should never be given credit. pic.twitter.com/Hi5E7Bvgha
— RoyalSMO (@Royal_SMO) June 17, 2019
Musk’s bizarre response recieved a torrent more criticism and abuse, so the man did the only thing that a rich and powerful human being should do: namely, he Tweeted that he had deleted his account.
Just deleted my Twitter account
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 17, 2019
Needless to say, he hasn’t actually deleted his account — it’s still there, with that Tweet still up — making this one more exhausting troll from a man who specialises in being as tiresome as humanly possible.