“If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”
- Elon, 2023
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Careful, you might convince Tesla shareholders to fork over a few more billion to keep the big brained genius motivated.
"Give me 60 billions this year, or the Tesla stock will lose even of more of its price next year!" -- Elon, probably.
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Calling out Bob Iger in particular was the cherry on top.
Massive hubris.
I think this should be posted as a comment to every article about this.
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Go fund yourself.
We ought to normalize this phrase, it's pure gold!
He just got approved for that big $40+ billion compensation package from Tesla so he's got lots to work with.
A single billion is an obscene amount of money for an individual, I can't fathom how anyone can be worth/earn a billion in a couple of years.
Exploitation is the answer.
He works really really hard ;)
Yeah, you guys try making 20-30 xitposts a day. He deserves pay that is best expressed in scientific notation.
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“I hope they stop. Don’t advertise, If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is." - Elon Musk, November 27th 2023
Advertisers:
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Begs??? Wasn’t he the one that said: “Fuck yourselves” to advertisers???? I thought he didn’t need them… lol
Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.
But if I keep my mouth shut how will I assert that I am the most important human on the planet?
Nope, he can't manage that. Because he's an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.
I can't wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don't have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I'm not holding my breath.
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- Tells customers to go fuck themselves
- They leave
- They stop paying for advertisement
- Twitter/X makes no money from advertisement
Elon:
Don't forget his total lack of actual 'prowess' in running Twitter.
- changing the name to X
- Firing employees
- employees severance issues
- Reneging on free speech promises
- Using hidden accounts
- Unbanning of people who should be banned
- Killing API access
- Forcing login to view tweets
- add your fave Twitter dumpster fire item here
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"I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department," he admitted.
He's been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.
Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It's not a value that's always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.
If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn't even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault
Yeah I robbed that gas station but at least some crime boss didn't make me do it. It was genuine so you should forgive me
Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier.
sounds like he needs that PR department
That's pretty much how he kept the public image of "eccentric genius" for so many years. I once read an article (can't remember where, don't care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.
When Twitter was infested, it didn't have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.
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I thought, it was only "woke" companies went broke. Are we now saying "Go fash, no cash"?
Go fash, no cash.
Fukkkin saved.
"If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world," Musk told Read, "the X platform is by far the best."
Does someone want to break it to him that he's one of about 4 executives of a fortune 500 who spends any time on Twitter? The rest have PR people who might make a couple posts a month for them, but they sure as shit aren't wasting any time on it arguing with idiots and bots. They're busy flying around on private jets or playing golf when they aren't spending their 30 minutes a month working.
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Anyone could be a CEO if this douche nozzle can. And for like 6-7 different corporations to by the way.
What do you say you do here elon?
Disagree. You have to be completely devoid of morals and ethics to be a CEO. Empathy too. Most of us have those things on at least some level.
Only to be CEO of a massive capitalist company.
I've heard a few tales of some CEO's (of very small companies) here in the Nordics actually being generous to their employees. Like it's most definitely a rarity, but I believe it is possible.
Like a CEO who values profits but values employees and paying their fair share more and isn't blinded by greed and addicted to money. A socialist, literally. A market socialist, but a socialist nonetheless.
Everyone could have their basic needs met, and we could still have rich people. Just not filthy rich, not "rich-to-the-point-no-one-else-has-anything" rich.
Well, well, well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
I Always thought he just wanted to flush xitter, it never occurred to me that he was actually trying to succeed.
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Well changing the name to "X" didn't do him any favors
Threw away the branding, threw away the user base, threw away the advertisers, throw away the staff.
What exactly does he have left?
His ego🤣🤣😂😂😂
Twitter is a cute name. X just sounds like some perverted shit. Elon is a moron.
Elon, I got some butterscotch in my pockets. They are nice and warm too..Why don't you reach in there and grab ya a couple?
The G20 doesn't meet on twitter. If you want to talk to like second rate journalists or nazis you go to twitter.
I can't find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, "If they don't pay for advertisements, X will be gone. How sad!"
It seems Musk thinks he's tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that's fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.
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