18 Jokes Elon Musk Stole From His Followers On Twitter

Elon Musk likes to make jokes on Twitter, however I’m beginning to wonder if he’s ever made an authentic joke in his life. As a result of anytime you see a joke or a meme from the billionaire proprietor of the social media platform, it’s virtually all the time stolen from his followers with out credit score.

When Musk purchased Twitter again in October for $44 billion, many individuals appeared to imagine wild conspiracy theories concerning the precise causes for his buy. Some individuals insisted he needed to swing the 2022 midterm elections to the Republicans. Others insisted he purchased the platform to eliminate embarrassing photographs that had been taken of the billionaire entrepreneur through the years. However after observing Musk’s possession of the location for over three months, I believe we will definitively say it’s none of these issues.

Musk simply loves all of the jokes individuals make and needs to say possession of the laughter. In case you’ll recall, Musk beforehand tried to purchase humor website The Onion, however that deal fell by way of. And Musk’s look on SNL reveals all he actually desires in life is to get amusing. I simply want somebody would present Musk the place the retweet button is.

For instance, Musk stole at the very least 4 jokes on Saturday, and whereas it’s probably not a giant deal, it’s bizarre and virtually anti-social conduct once you personal a social media website. The Twitter platform has two retweet choices, a local retweet, the place one other individual’s complete tweet is shared in your timeline, and a quote tweet, the place a consumer can add their very own commentary above the unique tweet. However Musk doesn’t appear to know or care about these options.

What sort of content material is Musk stealing? For instance from Saturday, somebody tweeted a joke at Musk that included a photograph of a crying man with the phrases, “While you order a guide known as ‘how you can rip-off individuals’ and it’s nonetheless not right here after 4 months.” The consumer tweeted it at Musk within the afternoon and Musk tweeted his personal model simply 9 minutes later, with very minor tweaks to the wording of the joke.

“Ordered ‘How one can Rip-off’ guide months in the past however nonetheless not arrived. Beginning to assume it could possibly be … however no I’m certain it’s coming quickly,” Musk tweeted with out giving the unique poster any credit score. Musk’s model has over 15 million views, whereas the individual he stole the joke from has simply 177,000 views.

Or take one other picture {that a} Dogecoin account tweeted at Musk on Saturday. It’s a screenshot from the Pixar film The Incredibles making a joke about gendered nouns in varied languages. It was tweeted at Musk at 4:23pm and he stole it simply three minutes later with out credit score. Musk’s tweet has over 5 million views, whereas the unique tweet has 673,000.

Or take this tweet from final month, poking enjoyable on the Related Press for taking subject with utilizing “the” in entrance of sure phrases to explain teams of individuals. Musk even replied to the unique tweet along with his favourite emoticon, the cry-laugher. However he rotated and simply stole the joke reasonably than retweet it.

Or take a look at this tweet from a consumer joking about how a lot time individuals waste on the platform when they need to be working. Musk racked up virtually 25 million views in comparison with simply 28,000 for the unique.

And it’s a relentless sample that Musk has been doing for years. Somewhat than simply hit the retweet button on a tweet, he’ll take the picture and go it off as his personal. In 2021, Musk posted a humorous joke for any fan of the 1982 film Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford. However he simply took it from another person on Twitter who had shared it earlier within the day.

Then there’s this meme that reporter Cody Johnston factors out was tweeted instantly at Musk earlier than he stole it.

Typically, Musk will even seemingly screenshot a tweet and crop out the unique poster, like he did with this joke from comic Morgan Murphy in 2020.

Musk has additionally stolen quite a few jokes from the satire website Laborious Drive, whereas cropping out the web site’s title on the joke. When the location known as him out for not giving them credit score, Musk replied “much less humorous than SNL on a nasty day. This might make a drunk individual sober. Strive more durable!”

Laborious Drive replied, “properly you’re the skilled on SNL’s unhealthy days,” together with a screenshot of Musk’s look on the NBC present.

Musk was apparently devastated sufficient to delete the unique stolen tweet.

It’d be one factor if it was a joke right here and there. Lots of people have the identical concepts on the identical time, and there’s additionally the potential for inadvertently taking somebody’s joke that you just remembered from days in the past, actually believing it was your individual authentic thought. I’ve personally achieved this at the very least twice in my a few years on Twitter, solely realizing it after the actual fact. However Musk appears to steal jokes each single day.

Musk defenders will seemingly say that stealing jokes and memes is not any massive deal, and people individuals can be completely proper. Within the grand scheme of issues, it doesn’t actually matter. Nevertheless it may assist us perceive some issues in Musk’s life that do matter.

For instance, Musk’s rampant meme theft may level to how Musk turned such a divisive media character over the previous yr. It’s one factor to turn into wealthy, a lot of individuals try this. However Musk appears to wish to take all of the credit score for the success of corporations like Tesla and SpaceX, leaving different vital figures within the historical past of his corporations out of the headlines. And Musk reportedly is not going to tolerate dissent to the official narrative.

Musk likes to name himself a founding father of the electrical automotive firm Tesla, however that’s not correct. Musk was an early investor in Tesla and squeezed the founders out. The true founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, sat down with CNBC in 2019 to speak about getting pushed out of their very own firm. As CNBC explains, Musk was the corporate’s fourth CEO when he took that place in October of 2008.

Musk was even requested as soon as about whether or not he creates his personal memes on social media and the billionaire’s response wasn’t terribly assured.

“You create you personal memes although, don’t you?” a bunch from the YouTube channel Tesla Homeowners Silicon Valley requested in an interview printed to YouTube in June 2022.

“Uh, some… I create some memes, um…” Musk mentioned unconvincingly.

“Your meme sport is robust,” the host responded.

“Thanks,” Musk replied.

When you’ve got proof that Musk has ever created his personal meme, not to mention his personal joke, on Twitter, please go it alongside. As a result of virtually each try by Musk at being humorous appears to have existed already on social media.

Under are simply a few of the different tweets Musk has stolen just lately. Once more, it’s not a giant subject within the greater image, however maybe it reveals there’s nothing Musk desires extra on the planet than to get laughs.

Musk was loudly booed when he was introduced on stage at a Dave Chappelle live performance again in December, so the CEO has retreated to his secure area, a web site the place he can joke round with the web, whereas getting the adulation of thousands and thousands of followers—and blocking anybody who displeases him. It’s simply bizarre he paid $44 billion for the pleasure when he might’ve achieved all that without spending a dime.