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Elon Musk, the wealthiest man on the planet, in contrast trendy civilization to the Roman Empire on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, early Monday. And Musk used a meme to articulate the concept, in fact.
“Anybody feeling late stage empire vibes?” Musk tweeted.
Musk additionally shared an illustration of a Roman soldier with the caption: “Watching the Roman Empire collapse once more however with wifi and memes this time.”
Musk has attracted widespread consideration prior to now yr for his social media musings ever since he purchased Twitter in October 2022. Apart from altering the title of the location, the billionaire has just lately promote a marketing campaign to ban the Anti-Defamation League, defended extraordinarily polarizing figures like Dilbert creator Scott Adams and proposed a bodily combat with Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg that now not seems like it’ll occur.
Musk typically shares pessimistic views on the world on X, regardless of being a person with extra wealth than most individuals might ever dream of achieving. Musk’s internet value is $248.7 billion, based on Forbes. The 52-year-old even urged that the Unabomber could have been proper about know-how after Ted Kaczynski, the 81-year-old terrorist, died in jail again in June.
Musk has additionally scared off a variety of advertisers from the platform, with advert income down no less than 50% since he took over. Executives behind a number of the world’s greatest manufacturers are reportedly even scared to be seen in the identical room as Musk, based on studies from earlier this yr.
X has tried to show issues round by hiring NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino to develop into CEO, a transfer that was meant to calm skittish advertisers. However Yaccarino has been seen largely as a figurehead as Musk makes it clear each day on-line that he’s actually making the seemingly impulsive selections at X.
X didn’t reply to emailed questions early Monday ET. I’ll replace this submit if I hear again.
