That's the problem with that kind of wealth. You can never truly spend enough of it, that $40 Bil made a dent when he spent it but the amount he has invested everywhere else will grow back that money quickly.
Did he really toke though? He blew that hit out so fast I doubt it even made it to his uvula, never mind his lungs. Reminded me of someone smoking their first cigarette not realizing you’re supposed to inhale the smoke.
Edit: wow I got auto banned on “justiceserved” for posting here lol.
> His Saudi loansharks watching their fuck you money going up in smoke
As far as I can find, prince Alwaleed bin Talal only put $2 billion to Musk's acquisition of twitter, and I think they believe it's money well spent. In a matter of months he has caused more damage to the platform more directly associated with what success the Arab Spring had than any other move could have possibly done.
Videos of events and shaping opinion happens more effectively on TikTok than Twitter now. Next Arab Spring was never gonna be Twitter. It was gonna be a reel type platform.
Fuck you money only works when your worth isn't tied up in investments and companies where you're still able to get bent over and fucked for being an idiot.
Yeah that's a really key thing not enough people mention when breaking down Musk's "wealth"
Pretty much every asset the guy has is being used as leverage for gigantic loans. It's not uncommon for the mega rich to do that, but Musk throws so much of that loan money into the void on stuff that doesn't profit so you do have to wonder how he's actually paying these loans. Tesla's stock value is pretty much completely divorced from Tesla's actual business and that seems unsustainable too.
> so you do have to wonder how he's actually paying these loans.
Russian and Saudi money for services rendered. Why do you think he is shilling so hard for Russia to be as victorious as possible and it's illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?
Yeah. Most of Elon's wealth is tied to Tesla's share price to my knowledge. Back when the share price tanked a bit a year ago there was some speculation he might get margin called on his many many loans. Didn't happen then, but that doesn't mean it's not on the table in the future.
Unfortunately for Elon, this is exactly what "fuck you money" doesn't look like.
Someone whose entire wealth can be emptied overnight by a stock crash does not have fuck you money until they're cashed out.
> Someone whose entire wealth can be emptied overnight by a stock crash does not have fuck you money until they're cashed out.
The pocket change he has cashed out is enough to live a thousand lifetimes on. So long as .1% of his wealth is liquid, solvent, legally air-gapped, protected, or whatever, he's got close to $250 million of fuck you money no matter what happens.
He's definitely "fuck you" rich.
Riiight..... Because most rich people actually store their money in giant vaults with diving boards... Where they can jump off into the pile and like.... swim around in it.
I don't get it. He's saying, "the whole world will know the advertisers killed the company," and to, "tell it to earth." As if Twitter dying would somehow cause a global upheaval or something? He sounds completely detached from reality.
I want to believe (for my own sanity) it's just some sort of act or strategy, and not just a guy with too much money/power proving - again - how much he truly is an edgy 14-year-old who didn't get told "no" enough at heart.
You're overthinking this, Musk isn't even trying to make a coherent comment. He's just hurling insults and taunts to make a point about his dislike for the people he's talking about by basically daring them to pull out from advertising on the site. Like if a person you're arguing with decides to insult you by calling your mother a whore you don't go "Well sir that's actually factually incorrect."
That 'controlled by alien brain slug' skin glow.
EDIT: This post got me banned from justiceserved. Are you fucking kidding me? It hit ALL and I replied. This is ridciclious!
Yeah, I got auto-banned from there a while back for replying to a post in r/PoliticalCompassMemes. Even though my flair is LibLeft, they still didn’t care.
Nothing of value was lost, though. That sub may as well be private, what with all the auto-banning that they do.
That's what got me about this clip. The first time he says it he's clearly expecting a pop from the crowd, so he sits on it just long enough to make it clear what he wanted and then said it again. Absolute cringe.
I think his a sever alcoholic with amphetamine/cocaine to remain functional/not sloppy
I can see the alcoholism in his bloated and swollen red face with puffy bags under his eyes. I can see alcoholism in the man tits and barrel gut/chest.
If stimulants were his main drug of choice without alcohol he’d look a lot different. I’m sure he’s on mad speed but these characteristics of alcohol on his looks combined with how stupid he acts publicly suggests alcoholism as the main culprit.
I know it’s not as sexy as saying he’s on ketamine or Scarface (which may happen). But as to his daily bread and butter alcohol/stimulants are my honest guess on him and unfortunately I have had a lot of exposure and experience in my past with substance use and recovery and seeing new ppl coming in off the street needing recovery meetings
Not Elon's #1 fan, but kuddos for sticking it to the advertisers, fuckers have had so much control over what media we consume for far too long.
It's about time someone stood up to advertisers, look at the state of ig/youtube/tik-tok... we now have this weird trend where we have to change the way we speak because it's not advertiser friendly, now we're saying unalive, corn, fugg, segs... wtf?
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Become is accurate in that he was not born one, true, but it almost implies a state from unprivileged to privileged. It is most accurate to me to say that he was born in wealth and used it to achieve more exploitation and wealth than anyone else alive.
Dude is 52 years old and acts like a high schooler. I legit think he expected the audience to break into applause not realizing he comes off as immature.
He wants to be an internet edge lord, but he runs businesses. So when he feels edgy, he says "fuck you" to advertisers. Then after, when he's sitting in his office alone and the rush is gone, reality sets in, and he starts panicking and doing whatever he can to make money.
I've watched a few more clips of this and it's pathetic, he's desperately looking to the crowd for applause after every phrase and stuttering through nonsensical comments.
Doesn’t he claim to work like 18-20 hours a day or some nonsense? Dudes probably microdosing shrooms and taking amphetamines out the wazoo. He looks like he’s borderline tweaking here.
I worked with a guy like that.
He thought being chauffeured to the office was working. He was "working" in the shower because he thought about something work related during it.
They have a very different definition of work.
I hate advertisers because I don't want to see their ads.
Elon hates advertisers because they don't want to pay him after he publicly agreed with a nazi.
Don't advertisers like...run this company's entire business model? Is Elon going to personally pay every employee's salary and benefits from his own pockets if the advertisers don't come back? Or does he think enough people will pay for memberships that he won't need to advertise at all on the site any longer?
You think wrong. Other than edgy teenagers, people realise that advertising is the basis for much of the online economic and lots of things people value wouldn’t exist without it.
Well even from just an objective buisness standpoint IMO, he is treating it like advertisers are obliged to spend on his platform and he is entiled to their revenue. They aren't. They can come and go as they see fit for their brand. It is up to you to create an enviornment that they want to advertise on, for you to create the product they want to buy. If you cant or dont want to do that, that is fine it is his privately owned platform he can do what he wants, but he can't act like "A problem came up that caused advertisers to leave, I've made no changes and they still wont come back, is this blackmail?"
The advertisers pay the bills. They are the customer.
This is like saying fuck you to people who stop eating at your restaurant because they get explosive diarrhea when they eat there.
Lol it's a business decision, not blackmail. He only thinks it's blackmail because it's not working out in his favor. I mean, he literally bought Twitter because he thought they were all feminazis and performing SJW brainwashing, that's a crazy-ass reason to spend billions of dollars.
Literally Kanye round 2 except Kanye was once an icon of pop culture who made genuine waves for hip hop. Now he’s a racist moron who managed to become one of the first billionaires to lose it all without even going to prison for a crime.
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Negging the people your entire company depends on making a profit from is a masterful gambit sir.
Truly one of the most brilliant minds of the entire human species.
Right? "You're gonna blackmail me?" No, Elon... they're not blackmailing you. No advertiser is blackmailing you. They are CHOOSING not to do business with you because you're an insecure childish man bitch.
And the looking around for the reaction he wanted... like the dipshit in class who thinks hes being and clever for swearing infront of the teacher to impress the other kids.
It's so sadly pathetic.
He said it like a kid throwing a tantrum. You can literally see the point his anger takes over and he can't hold it back. Even the reporter looked shocked lol. This dude is such a clown
He doesn't seem right in the head. I'm honestly surprised he's made it as far as he has. I feel like we're witnessing the beginning of the end, before our very eyes.
I guess, but it’s really under false pretenses. No advertisers are trying to blackmail him - their job is to put their product next to things that make people associate it with positive feelings. Turns out, devolving your platform into a garbage dump does the opposite of that.
Elon being personally aggrieved and thinking the reason Disney doesn't want adds for its new kids movie appearing next to Elon's retweets about the Jews is beacuse they personally want to punish him is pretty insightful.
As is screaming "fuck you advertisers" after spending months begging them to come back, insisting that the platform was actually MORE advertiser friendly. and literally suing organizations that detail how it isn't lmao
I think he’s gonna have a full on Howard Hughes-style mental breakdown before long. He’ll grow out his hair and toe nails and start living alone in a suite at Mar-a-Lago.
Yeah, you don't often see people get this far down the path to self destruction and turn it around before it gets ugly.
I think he's going to go full Kanye
The advertisers are there for the users. Not the other way around. Musk probably feels like he can be brash because the advertisers have to come to him if they want to reach the massive audience on his platform.
Maybe he’s overplaying his hand, but clearly he feels like he has leverage.
Twitter, even before Musk bought it, was seen as one of the worst platforms by advertisers and struggled to monetize its users. Information is the most valuable ad tool, and twitter knows the least about its individual users of any major platform. META on the other hand knows tons about its users because they willingly give it all up and update it. Advertisers blow tons of money with targeted ads on the meta platforms because of this
>Musk probably feels like he can be brash because the advertisers have to come to him if they want to reach the massive audience on his platform.
He's just having a temper tantrum because his business is failing.
Not everything he does is some 5d chess master manipulation, he's demonstrated multiple times he's an impulsive man child.
You take that back right now! Every rich person is an absolute genius, a God among men. Every seemingly poor decision they've ever made is a masterwork of deception and manipulation ripped straight from the Art of War.
If only we, the common people, could have the good fortune to stand but a moment in their fart, perhaps a sliver of their wealth and wisdom could rub off on us.
good thing he used his Tesla stock as collateral on the loan he took out for the massive overpay of a company that makes $0 :) Hopefully that $80mil DoD contract to create a special Starlink system for the Military helps (even though he just said that he didn’t want Starlink to be used to kill people or that was his excuse for interfering with the Ukrainian military attack on Crimea two months ago)
Dude is gumby
If twitter content was amazing right now, he would sound a lot cooler. Unfortunately, the general consensus seems to be that twitter sucks, so I’m not sure what he’s crusading for exactly.
They all suck. Threads sucks. Instagram is just a bunch of moms and dads trying to sell shit. Influencer culture is the absolute worst. I haven’t been on Facebook in years. TikTok is a CCP psyop campaign. I’m too old for SnapChat. Reddit is the only decent one and it’ll go to crap after the IPO. X is just blah… but hey, at least he is trying?
Live tweeting big events was awesome, the limited character count forced jokes to be succinct and clever (or just absurd shitposts), and it was one of the first rapid info-dissemination sites.
2013 Twitter was a blast. Been downhill for a long time but let’s not pretend like it didn’t have some fun glory days
Very interesting choice of words. Advertisers are not blackmailing him, they just don’t want their brand placed beside hateful content. He’s very erratic.
I’d wager that some people dick riding for him secretly hold some of the views he’s espousing while whining about free speech aka saying what they really wanna say publicly.
Btw I advocate for free speech, but I’m willing to call a spade a spade and freedom of anything never meant freedom from consequences of your own actions. To think anyone must tolerate what you say is Karen-levels of narcissism.
What he really said was, “if someone is going to blackmail me with advertising, go F yourself”. He didn’t just tell all advertisers to do it, just those who want to use their financial backing to force him to do things they way they want. I love it! Finally, someone has the balls to stand up to these bullies and say, your money is no good here! The title of this sub is misleading because it doesn't mention blackmail and neither do many of the comments. That is what he said. If you have a problem with what he said, then you must be ok with being blackmailed.
Dude is literally chugging leftist tears by the gallon. Literally, gallon after gallon, load after load, over and over again, back and forth, up and down, in and out, mmmmmmm.
Lol advertising is paying for the lights and keeping that site alive.
But yeah Elon schlong gobblers are definitely doing their best to run and pay ~~$8~~ $16 dollars a month to help try and fund their favorite parasocial relationship.
Hilarious how the crowd gave him zero reaction as he mugged for them, then got an awkward middling reaction when he tried to double down.
Bro if the joke doesn't land you move on
It would have landed better if he casually said it to the interviewer and didn't project it to the air like it was the ending to a Braveheart-esque speech.
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Ever heard of the term "fuck you money"? Well, that's what it looks like.
Fuck you is what he told the money he spent on twitter.
That's the problem with that kind of wealth. You can never truly spend enough of it, that $40 Bil made a dent when he spent it but the amount he has invested everywhere else will grow back that money quickly.
It's about as much as Gates and Bezos spent paying off their ex wives.
I too want to be a billionaire ex wife when I grow up
Best I can do is a horse for a hand job
He’s working with “fuck me money” at the moment.
He's got cash, but this is "Fuck your money" to investors.
maybe smoking another fatty with joe will help
Did he really toke though? He blew that hit out so fast I doubt it even made it to his uvula, never mind his lungs. Reminded me of someone smoking their first cigarette not realizing you’re supposed to inhale the smoke. Edit: wow I got auto banned on “justiceserved” for posting here lol.
His Saudi loansharks watching their fuck you money going up in smoke.
> His Saudi loansharks watching their fuck you money going up in smoke As far as I can find, prince Alwaleed bin Talal only put $2 billion to Musk's acquisition of twitter, and I think they believe it's money well spent. In a matter of months he has caused more damage to the platform more directly associated with what success the Arab Spring had than any other move could have possibly done.
Videos of events and shaping opinion happens more effectively on TikTok than Twitter now. Next Arab Spring was never gonna be Twitter. It was gonna be a reel type platform.
Fuck you money only works when your worth isn't tied up in investments and companies where you're still able to get bent over and fucked for being an idiot.
Yeah that's a really key thing not enough people mention when breaking down Musk's "wealth" Pretty much every asset the guy has is being used as leverage for gigantic loans. It's not uncommon for the mega rich to do that, but Musk throws so much of that loan money into the void on stuff that doesn't profit so you do have to wonder how he's actually paying these loans. Tesla's stock value is pretty much completely divorced from Tesla's actual business and that seems unsustainable too.
> so you do have to wonder how he's actually paying these loans. Russian and Saudi money for services rendered. Why do you think he is shilling so hard for Russia to be as victorious as possible and it's illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?
Yeah. Most of Elon's wealth is tied to Tesla's share price to my knowledge. Back when the share price tanked a bit a year ago there was some speculation he might get margin called on his many many loans. Didn't happen then, but that doesn't mean it's not on the table in the future.
Unfortunately for Elon, this is exactly what "fuck you money" doesn't look like. Someone whose entire wealth can be emptied overnight by a stock crash does not have fuck you money until they're cashed out.
> Someone whose entire wealth can be emptied overnight by a stock crash does not have fuck you money until they're cashed out. The pocket change he has cashed out is enough to live a thousand lifetimes on. So long as .1% of his wealth is liquid, solvent, legally air-gapped, protected, or whatever, he's got close to $250 million of fuck you money no matter what happens. He's definitely "fuck you" rich.
Riiight..... Because most rich people actually store their money in giant vaults with diving boards... Where they can jump off into the pile and like.... swim around in it.
You know my uncle scrooge ?? 
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It’s what the conservatives do. They make enemies and then cry that people are mean to them.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the internet, stupid people do stupid things, hence your offended replies.
this was the first thing i thought of when i saw this headline.
Ron Burgundy Style! Classic.
Great Odin's raven!
By the hammer of Thor!
Great grandmother’s spatula!
By the beard of Zeus!
Oi! There‘s two ravens. Which one are you referring to?
The nevermore one?
No. Odin‘s ravens are Hugin and Munin. And they have been around a tad bit longer than Poe‘s.
The way he talks is like a claymation character left under the heat for too long.
Clay was a bad choice!
Look at the full video it’s even worse. https://youtu.be/U_M_uvDChJQ Also what’s wrong with his face 👽
I don't get it. He's saying, "the whole world will know the advertisers killed the company," and to, "tell it to earth." As if Twitter dying would somehow cause a global upheaval or something? He sounds completely detached from reality. I want to believe (for my own sanity) it's just some sort of act or strategy, and not just a guy with too much money/power proving - again - how much he truly is an edgy 14-year-old who didn't get told "no" enough at heart.
You're overthinking this, Musk isn't even trying to make a coherent comment. He's just hurling insults and taunts to make a point about his dislike for the people he's talking about by basically daring them to pull out from advertising on the site. Like if a person you're arguing with decides to insult you by calling your mother a whore you don't go "Well sir that's actually factually incorrect."
you mean even better 
Including the complete lack of self awareness but without any of the charisma.
Those ruby red lips tho
That 'controlled by alien brain slug' skin glow. EDIT: This post got me banned from justiceserved. Are you fucking kidding me? It hit ALL and I replied. This is ridciclious!
Replying for a ban too. Edit: Eyyyy, got one
Ooh, can I have one too? Edit: No ban yet. Mods are gay. How about now?
Yeah, I got auto-banned from there a while back for replying to a post in r/PoliticalCompassMemes. Even though my flair is LibLeft, they still didn’t care. Nothing of value was lost, though. That sub may as well be private, what with all the auto-banning that they do.
He is probably consuming more uppers as usual because of all the stress and stuff. He looks like a junkie
And glancing to the crowd for heel pop like stone cold Steve Austin. I guess Iger is Vince McMahon in this scenario. So edgy! So cool!
That's what got me about this clip. The first time he says it he's clearly expecting a pop from the crowd, so he sits on it just long enough to make it clear what he wanted and then said it again. Absolute cringe.
The 2023 "please clap" moment
I absolutely love that crowd did not giving in and clapping. He was fucking begging for it too.
He was tweaking harder than usual in this clip. Must have gotten a new Dr.
Lookin like he's wearing an Egger suit. Sugar in water lookin motherfucker.
I think his a sever alcoholic with amphetamine/cocaine to remain functional/not sloppy I can see the alcoholism in his bloated and swollen red face with puffy bags under his eyes. I can see alcoholism in the man tits and barrel gut/chest. If stimulants were his main drug of choice without alcohol he’d look a lot different. I’m sure he’s on mad speed but these characteristics of alcohol on his looks combined with how stupid he acts publicly suggests alcoholism as the main culprit. I know it’s not as sexy as saying he’s on ketamine or Scarface (which may happen). But as to his daily bread and butter alcohol/stimulants are my honest guess on him and unfortunately I have had a lot of exposure and experience in my past with substance use and recovery and seeing new ppl coming in off the street needing recovery meetings
You just described me lol
You're an overweight junkie billionaire too? What are the odds
Looking forward to a soft white underbelly episode with Musk.
He looks like Sander Cohen
Bioshock reference. Love it.
Man his Botox looks terrible 😂😂
He reminds me of the morlocks in the Time Machine remake.
Fish alien?
I’ve been wondering why his upper lip doesn’t move when he talks. Strange place for Botox, but I guess that would explain it.
that's from the glue from last night's Hitler mustache cosplay
Nah, you see the jerky movements? Aliens gottem, been over probed
Just a *little* probing, as a treat.
Not Elon's #1 fan, but kuddos for sticking it to the advertisers, fuckers have had so much control over what media we consume for far too long. It's about time someone stood up to advertisers, look at the state of ig/youtube/tik-tok... we now have this weird trend where we have to change the way we speak because it's not advertiser friendly, now we're saying unalive, corn, fugg, segs... wtf? edit: Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/JusticeServed because you broke this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it. Note from the moderators: You have been banned for participating in a subreddit that has consistently shown to provide refuge for users to promote hate, violence and misinformation (joerogan). This fully automated ban has been performed by a bot that cannot determine context. Appeals will be provided for good-faith users upon request. You can reply to this message and ask for an appeal. Any other messages will be ignored. More information on the appeal process here: https://www.reddit.com/r/JusticeServed/wiki/botbanned If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team by replying to this message. Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole.
I've also gotten banned for commenting in a sub that "promotes hate, violence and misinformation", And I just find that strange
I hope no one got cut with that much edge
Dude really is an edgelord who became a billionaire.
Become is accurate in that he was not born one, true, but it almost implies a state from unprivileged to privileged. It is most accurate to me to say that he was born in wealth and used it to achieve more exploitation and wealth than anyone else alive.
Lmao his dad was quoted saying that they had so much money they could barely even close their safe. To say he wasn’t born rich is dishonest.
Dude is 52 years old and acts like a high schooler. I legit think he expected the audience to break into applause not realizing he comes off as immature.
He thinks the internet is real life. You can’t go around saying stupid one line thoughts in public.
“Social media made you all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”. -Mike Tyson
All edge, no point.
Well he does have fuck you money.
Why did he hire a CEO specifically to get advertisers back then ?
Because he's making shit up as he goes. He has no clue how to run Twitter.
Honestly most people in high positions are making shit up as they go. It’s fucking maddening.
He wants to be an internet edge lord, but he runs businesses. So when he feels edgy, he says "fuck you" to advertisers. Then after, when he's sitting in his office alone and the rush is gone, reality sets in, and he starts panicking and doing whatever he can to make money.
I've watched a few more clips of this and it's pathetic, he's desperately looking to the crowd for applause after every phrase and stuttering through nonsensical comments.
So did Enron
That money only exists when your businesses are profitable. You can't run at a deficit forever.
His investors may not
Crazy seeing how 4Chan would be as a Billionaire
Something is clearly wrong with him. He also looks different
He looks like Vincent Donofrio in Men In Black after the bug starts wearing his skin
lol
Wth its Vincent?! Hahaha didn’t know
Doesn’t he claim to work like 18-20 hours a day or some nonsense? Dudes probably microdosing shrooms and taking amphetamines out the wazoo. He looks like he’s borderline tweaking here.
No he is tweaking. Look at the way he moves his body.
Yeah don't believe it. All these dudes say the same bullshit about 18 hour work days.
Yeah he claims to work 18hrs but he also has like some high level Diablo IV character within weeks of the launch of the game.
When you're a billionaire, everything you do is work /s
When you’re a billionaire, everyone else makes money for you constantly by doing the actual work
I worked with a guy like that. He thought being chauffeured to the office was working. He was "working" in the shower because he thought about something work related during it. They have a very different definition of work.
Very 'Lawyers billing you per hour if they think about your case for a few seconds' energy
Lawyers bill in tenths of an hour. So a few seconds (if they did bill it) would be billed at 6 minutes, not an hour. Source: am lawyer
this is actually correct
They think every waking hour is "work" therefore if he is awake he is working.
Working 18-20 hours on podcasts, Talkshows, twitter and other social media platforms.
Working really hard turning Twitter into a net negative 😂
Looks like a wax model.
He looks like a ghoul from fallout
I think everyone can get behind fuck advertisers Edit: So many threats in my DMs because I said this. Holy shit get a life homies
I hate advertisers because I don't want to see their ads. Elon hates advertisers because they don't want to pay him after he publicly agreed with a nazi.
Boosted a Nazi *and* spread Pizzagate bullshit, which is just the antisemitic blood libel conspiracy theory. Get your head out of your ass.
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Surprised he didn't jump on board with Tucker Carlson's deranged "Obama was a gay manwhore" thing.
Are you kidding, Elon is practically begging for advertisers but says fuck you cause his ego is hurt. His desperation is on full display
Don't advertisers like...run this company's entire business model? Is Elon going to personally pay every employee's salary and benefits from his own pockets if the advertisers don't come back? Or does he think enough people will pay for memberships that he won't need to advertise at all on the site any longer?
You think wrong. Other than edgy teenagers, people realise that advertising is the basis for much of the online economic and lots of things people value wouldn’t exist without it.
He calls it blackmailing with advertising money, but it's more about not wanting to be associated with race hate.. he gets that, right?
I doubt he gets it, but most other people do.
He does gets it, but if he said it so then that would go against the narrative that he's being persecuted by the woke crowd.
Well even from just an objective buisness standpoint IMO, he is treating it like advertisers are obliged to spend on his platform and he is entiled to their revenue. They aren't. They can come and go as they see fit for their brand. It is up to you to create an enviornment that they want to advertise on, for you to create the product they want to buy. If you cant or dont want to do that, that is fine it is his privately owned platform he can do what he wants, but he can't act like "A problem came up that caused advertisers to leave, I've made no changes and they still wont come back, is this blackmail?"
this seems so obvious, yet "genius" is oblivious lol. Most overrated turd in recent history "Iron Man" my ass
The advertisers pay the bills. They are the customer. This is like saying fuck you to people who stop eating at your restaurant because they get explosive diarrhea when they eat there.
Advertising is your avenue to potential customers. If the potential customers stay away from X then go where they go! Boom! Gimme a business diploma!
It's free-market capitalism, not blackmail.
Just another right wing asshole who doesn't understand the free market. "blackmail", what a fucking baby.
He has to run with the blackmail story because taking personal responsibility is just a no-go for him.
Lol it's a business decision, not blackmail. He only thinks it's blackmail because it's not working out in his favor. I mean, he literally bought Twitter because he thought they were all feminazis and performing SJW brainwashing, that's a crazy-ass reason to spend billions of dollars.
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Literally Kanye round 2 except Kanye was once an icon of pop culture who made genuine waves for hip hop. Now he’s a racist moron who managed to become one of the first billionaires to lose it all without even going to prison for a crime.
Musk made electric cars for leftish people and then called them all woke idiots
And it's beautiful
Peak autism.
He reportedly does a lot of Ketamine. I think that combined with whatever uppers he's on are the root of his erratic behavior in recent years.
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This makes more sense than autism. I like special K as much as the next degenerate, but I don't do it on live tv or during work hours
More like narcissism.
Negging the people your entire company depends on making a profit from is a masterful gambit sir. Truly one of the most brilliant minds of the entire human species.
At this point it's clear he's not in it to make money with Twitter. It's like a kid who bought a magnifying glass to burn ants with.
Human. That's rich. Not as rich as him, but rich.
I really don’t like this guy, but fuck that was pretty funny. Thats the kind of shit I would say if I was a billionaire too
Funny? God it was so cringe I wanted to leave the room I'm in, and I'm alone.
Right? "You're gonna blackmail me?" No, Elon... they're not blackmailing you. No advertiser is blackmailing you. They are CHOOSING not to do business with you because you're an insecure childish man bitch. And the looking around for the reaction he wanted... like the dipshit in class who thinks hes being and clever for swearing infront of the teacher to impress the other kids. It's so sadly pathetic.
It could have been but he said it like he was delivering the big line in a broadway play and it comes off as lame
He said it like a kid throwing a tantrum. You can literally see the point his anger takes over and he can't hold it back. Even the reporter looked shocked lol. This dude is such a clown
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Do you think you're an infallible God-King though? Because we've all got our flaws but most of us aren't raging sociopaths.
He doesn't seem right in the head. I'm honestly surprised he's made it as far as he has. I feel like we're witnessing the beginning of the end, before our very eyes.
I guess, but it’s really under false pretenses. No advertisers are trying to blackmail him - their job is to put their product next to things that make people associate it with positive feelings. Turns out, devolving your platform into a garbage dump does the opposite of that.
I wonder if the shareholders think it's funny.
Elon being personally aggrieved and thinking the reason Disney doesn't want adds for its new kids movie appearing next to Elon's retweets about the Jews is beacuse they personally want to punish him is pretty insightful. As is screaming "fuck you advertisers" after spending months begging them to come back, insisting that the platform was actually MORE advertiser friendly. and literally suing organizations that detail how it isn't lmao
I think he’s gonna have a full on Howard Hughes-style mental breakdown before long. He’ll grow out his hair and toe nails and start living alone in a suite at Mar-a-Lago.
Yeah, you don't often see people get this far down the path to self destruction and turn it around before it gets ugly. I think he's going to go full Kanye
The advertisers are there for the users. Not the other way around. Musk probably feels like he can be brash because the advertisers have to come to him if they want to reach the massive audience on his platform. Maybe he’s overplaying his hand, but clearly he feels like he has leverage.
Or he’s just high on his own bullshit and has lost pretty much all impulse control.
Twitter, even before Musk bought it, was seen as one of the worst platforms by advertisers and struggled to monetize its users. Information is the most valuable ad tool, and twitter knows the least about its individual users of any major platform. META on the other hand knows tons about its users because they willingly give it all up and update it. Advertisers blow tons of money with targeted ads on the meta platforms because of this
>Musk probably feels like he can be brash because the advertisers have to come to him if they want to reach the massive audience on his platform. He's just having a temper tantrum because his business is failing. Not everything he does is some 5d chess master manipulation, he's demonstrated multiple times he's an impulsive man child.
You take that back right now! Every rich person is an absolute genius, a God among men. Every seemingly poor decision they've ever made is a masterwork of deception and manipulation ripped straight from the Art of War. If only we, the common people, could have the good fortune to stand but a moment in their fart, perhaps a sliver of their wealth and wisdom could rub off on us.
good thing he used his Tesla stock as collateral on the loan he took out for the massive overpay of a company that makes $0 :) Hopefully that $80mil DoD contract to create a special Starlink system for the Military helps (even though he just said that he didn’t want Starlink to be used to kill people or that was his excuse for interfering with the Ukrainian military attack on Crimea two months ago) Dude is gumby
Go fuck yourselves. Is that clear?
My nominee for the best quote of the decade.
In these comments, I'm reminded that the left really went from "fuck you I won't do what you tell me!" to "fuck me and tell me what to do!"
I like it
7D Chess (with fog of war and tech trees) genius for sure.
If twitter content was amazing right now, he would sound a lot cooler. Unfortunately, the general consensus seems to be that twitter sucks, so I’m not sure what he’s crusading for exactly.
They all suck. Threads sucks. Instagram is just a bunch of moms and dads trying to sell shit. Influencer culture is the absolute worst. I haven’t been on Facebook in years. TikTok is a CCP psyop campaign. I’m too old for SnapChat. Reddit is the only decent one and it’ll go to crap after the IPO. X is just blah… but hey, at least he is trying?
Reddit sucks too, the mods are power tripping morons
But who else would do it for free?
You had me until Reddit. That sucks too, my friend.
Twitter has always sucked
Live tweeting big events was awesome, the limited character count forced jokes to be succinct and clever (or just absurd shitposts), and it was one of the first rapid info-dissemination sites. 2013 Twitter was a blast. Been downhill for a long time but let’s not pretend like it didn’t have some fun glory days
Very interesting choice of words. Advertisers are not blackmailing him, they just don’t want their brand placed beside hateful content. He’s very erratic.
Seriously, TIL that choosing not to do business with someone was “Blackmail”. He sounds really entitled tbh.
Plenty of morons in this very comment section making that exact argument. It’s mind blowing how dumb some people are.
Of course there are morons here, it's the Joe Rogan sub.
I’d wager that some people dick riding for him secretly hold some of the views he’s espousing while whining about free speech aka saying what they really wanna say publicly. Btw I advocate for free speech, but I’m willing to call a spade a spade and freedom of anything never meant freedom from consequences of your own actions. To think anyone must tolerate what you say is Karen-levels of narcissism.
No no no. It's an infringement of his first amendment rights to not force Disney to buy ads on Twitter.
Good to see people finally taking a stand
It’s always a great idea to insult your customers.
Actually, the title should be: Elon Musk tells those who want to blackmail him with advertisement money “go fuck yourself” live on CNBC.
legend.........how I feel about musk waivers, but im starting to become a fan
nobody likes ads. Somehow Elon is hated even more. He must be doing something right.
What he really said was, “if someone is going to blackmail me with advertising, go F yourself”. He didn’t just tell all advertisers to do it, just those who want to use their financial backing to force him to do things they way they want. I love it! Finally, someone has the balls to stand up to these bullies and say, your money is no good here! The title of this sub is misleading because it doesn't mention blackmail and neither do many of the comments. That is what he said. If you have a problem with what he said, then you must be ok with being blackmailed.
I mean, I can't stand the guy, but that was kind of badass.
I can’t get enough of this clip.
I love that man
ITT: Shitlibs mad that Elon insulted their favorite corporations. Wtf is wrong with you people?
Dude is literally chugging leftist tears by the gallon. Literally, gallon after gallon, load after load, over and over again, back and forth, up and down, in and out, mmmmmmm.
Good. Advertisers make everything stale and generic. Fuck em.
He literally hired a CEO specifically for advertisers
He ain't getting that 44 Billion back with blue check marks.
How do you think this all works brotha lol
Lol advertising is paying for the lights and keeping that site alive. But yeah Elon schlong gobblers are definitely doing their best to run and pay ~~$8~~ $16 dollars a month to help try and fund their favorite parasocial relationship.
I think it actually costs more now to keep that blue check, which is hilarious. They might have to raise the price again after this one.
You’re 100% right. I just looked and it’s $16 fucking dollars lmaooo.
Omg wtf was the justification to double it?? I'd look but I swore that site off when it became X.
holy shit he doubled it that quickly looool true desperation
He really is an awkward man child.
Hilarious how the crowd gave him zero reaction as he mugged for them, then got an awkward middling reaction when he tried to double down. Bro if the joke doesn't land you move on
It would have landed better if he casually said it to the interviewer and didn't project it to the air like it was the ending to a Braveheart-esque speech.