Why does Elon Musk put an "x" in everything ?
zing
Ftfy
Elon gonna buy the German LinkedIn now
The Germans will all be unemployed soon then.
Why do you think Musk is developing humanoid robots?
He doesn't 'develop' anything. He buys businesses and then pays clever people to develop things and basks in the reflected glory.
He should rename Tesla to Edison
What do you call a stolen Tesla? ... An Edison.
He didn't name it, hr bought it prenamed and took all the glory from the actual engineers at Tesla... Oh wait
Not a nice way to refer to Germans.
What did it say?
He put something like "he also puts X in front of his wives"
And his daughter too 😅 Vivian is a Musk no more.
Pow!
He’s never bothered to marry most of the baby mammas
You don't have to be married to have an ex-boyfriend.
Take my upvote 😂
What it say? It got deleted.
Lmao that was good.
Yowza, haven’t seen that joke before
What was it? It's deleted.
He even adds it to the beginning of each of his wives.
Pretty mild to warrant a removal. Wasn’t aware the site was so milquetoast.
Oh wait, yes I was. Never mind.
The mods are so sensitive it's crazy
Because he's that person who back in the 90s and early 2000s thought adding X to things was cool. When the dot com boom was happening and people were buying up domains to beat people/companies to them so they can flip for a profit he bought X. Now as an adult he still thinks it's cool, has owned the website for decades and finally has something he can use it for so he did.
xXMuskYouUpXx has entered the game ...
Oh gods.
He really is just one of these.
Just, rich
Eww. Holy shit you’re right. Except instead of reeking like axe body spray, it’s acqua de gio.
Don’t bring acqua de gio into this
X body spray
Seriously, this is really fucking good.
It's not about being rich it's about being immature. He's both
I’m pretty sure his emotional development stopped around age 13. Exhibit A: Tesla models are S 3 X Y
We are all in agreement with you.
He's the richest mall ninja. This is what our society has produced.
I am ashamed for any future societies that discover us, terrestrial or otherwise.
I used this exact xXformatXx for my AOL screen name in the late 90s. I was not cool.
Don’t worry. You’re still not.
It's fine, we all did. It was the style at the time.
Hey that’s why I tied an onion to my belt!
Mine was o.O.o.username.o.O.o lol
-=@=-UsErnAmE-=@=-
Now that's fancy.
I mentally pronounce those, when I see them: eks-eks-eks-NAME-eks-eks-eks.
Hey, what's wrong with X's????
Straight edge kids in the 90-00’s
Only kids who didn’t do drugs?
Nah, I did it back then too and I also did drugs.
I knew one 'straight-edge' kid in my HS in the 90's and he marked the backs of his hands with huge 'X's in thick black sharpie. I think he was trying form an identity based on it. Perhaps Elon if he was not rich?
I was really into gaming in the early 2000s. Anybody with a name like the above was a douchebag a good 90 percent of the time.
In old school MMOs like SWG, EverQuest, early WoW, etc. some clans literally had a "no recruiting guys with Xs in the front and back of their name" rule.
I just used X's because the name was taken without X's and X is almost like a blank slate and I'm lazy and uncreative haha
Some of them went as far as X anywhere in the name.
My character Denix got kicked out of one because of that.
That must be why they kicked my Penix out
Nothing.
He's probably got an edgeville pking video out there somewhere
x.com was his online bank that PayPal bought. PayPal owned it until very recently
It was a 50-50 merger, after the merger the X.com branding was still the main branding though.
It was styled as "Paypal, a service of X.com" or "X.com PayPal", until they later rebranded as just PayPal.
They did it this way because X also did banking, while PayPal was only a send money by email service.
There are three single-letter .com domains, only two of which are active.
Which 2?
x.com and q.com
And the inactive one?
Even though everyone still calls in Twitter. What a stupid bell end musk is!
They achieved the absolute dream of branding where everyone uses your brand name as a verb. And he was like "let's change that name to something so common, like a letter of the alphabet, that it's impossible anyone will ever associate it on it's own with a brand."
He's so, so dumb.
Like practically everyone else, I still call it Twitter.
I figure if Musk can dead-name his own daughter, I can dead-name his stupid social-media shitshow ...
You need to pay homage to the name X regardless.
I call it Xitter.
You can do it the other way around, pay homage to twitter by by calling Musk the chief twit.
Pronounced as [ˈʃɪtər]
Is that fancy speak for shitter? Cause I call it shitter.
It is indeed
Its IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for "shitter"
I think this is hilarious. it's been how long since he tried to rename it? yet in news/everywhere it's still referred to as, "..and on X, formerly known as Twitter..."
I have a client who knows him somewhat and you’re 1000% right. He’s had an obsession with buying things and naming them X. He’s tried to do it with multiple online platforms since the mid 00’s. He’s like a child with a cool sticker and can’t decide what the sticker needs to go on, not realizing he’s going to ruin whatever he puts the sticker on.
Daring Danny X did it first.
fuck that guy
The 90s... X-Files
Elon Musk watched The Matrix and xXx in his twenties and, with a side of tech bro and libertarianism, made it his whole personality.
I'm proud to say I have NOTHING to do with any of his companies. And never will.
I can't wait till he's arrested. That drama is gonna be good.
He'll probably OD first. Either way I'm good.
I'm proud to say I bought Tesla stock and then sold it at it became super obvious musk was insane made a decent profit.
Something also stuck in the 90s was his vision for what the cybertruck should look like
You made a mistake " as an adult" has not happened yet.
He’s been trying to do it since the 90s with PayPal. He wanted the X company to be the everything company. A bit like WeChat is in China.
His vision is you’ll use his X product to do social media, to do payments, to prove your identity, to order food, to send money etc. X, like algebra, could be anything, any one of his many products.
That’s his vision at least. It seems to have failed at every twist and turn. Except for his X wives, that is.
This is the answer, he wants to have the same level of control over people as the Chinese government has over china.
He literally wants to implement a privately owned social credit score which is ironic considering he courts a lot of people on the far right like Alex Jones who hate things like that.
They "hate" these things until they serve them a purpose to advance the draconian agenda of extreme conservatism.
Once they find a use after years of trash talking about it, they just switch gears, talk about how magnificent it is and that everyone should adopt it and it seems like people forget how it used to be evil and now is great.
See: Bitcoin. Tesla.
Social Credit Score is a great idea so long as the way to keep it high is to conform to right wing ideology.
I imagine that an American “social credit score” system would definitely be set up in a way that wealthy people could simply pay money to increase their score.
Wealthy people are not bothered by things like that. They currently don't concern themselves with credit scores because that's not how they do business. They have private client banking that doesn't concern itself with petty things like credit scores. They aren't buying cars on credit, they aren't walking into the mall and buying a ring on credit.
The same would apply to a social credit system. Can't buy train tickets? Like the rich care if they can't buy train tickets, they have private jets. These systems are setup by the rich to keep the poor under control.
lol delusional
i’m so happy it failed, because it’s so extremely cringey
I guess "X" does sound better than "Weyland-Yutani" or "Arasaka".
Does it thou?
Yes it doesth.
Dost thou truly thinketh thus?
Aye. Thine own self dost ponder thusly.
I would totally be onboard with a social media site with a nasacore aesthetic run by Arasaka Heavy Industries. I don't need any bloops and blips, when I open the settings menu I want to hear gears turning and metal clunking.
Idk Arasaka goes hard in a villainous way. It’s the name of an old Japanese rifle so it plays into the fascist with jackboots aesthetic 1940 style
I won’t use any of his shitty products so the jokes on him.
Then, when SA got rid of apartheid, he moved to the USA.
Technocracy isn't just an organization.
It's the idea that subject matter experts should decide laws. You know, like the Chevron ruling that was struck down that reddit flipped out about. Or the whole COVID thing. Reddit is very much on board with the idea.
Instead he's just turning Twitter into OnlyFans LOL
He managed to turn twitter into something I no longer use for anything. Great job, dickhead
And yet he cant even get X to be better than twitter ever was. Talk about daydreaming lol
He seems to be doing alright financially
Elon Mux
Elon Multiplexer
xX[420]Xx_The_Musker69!!!_xX[420]Xx
The X's for angst, 420 for cool, 69 to prove he's had the sex
Lol looking for this
Only millennials and gen-x'ers will understand how cool putting x in everything was
It was very cool 30 years ago.
Cos he’s mentally around 12 and to him it’s so cool.
Is he doodling the "cool S" on everything when he's bored during Space X meetings, too?
The first 4 Tesla model numbers, in order of release are:
S - 3 - X - Y...
Ford owns the rights to E model cars, otherwise the 3 would have been E.
12 year old mentality all the way.
He probably thinks the S is cool, but I doubt he's competent enough to draw it
Honestly it's a fucking miracle the cool S isn't the logo for everything he does.
Mitch Hedberg is goat
He wants to land a spot of the cast of Wormhole X-treme!
You don't have the right, O, You don't have the right
Time for pickle
Calling him an edge Lord is giving him way too much credit. More like an edge mayor or something, he doesn't have anywhere near the authority of the Lord.
O I want to go home, I want to go home
He's still in his edgy teenager phase. As the heir to a diamond mine fortune he never got to rough it like the rest of us.
No, he says it means unknown.
No, he says it means unknown.
Fantastic branding for a company then. 😂
Vapid, Unknown, Meaningless, - Actually I take it back, that describes Twitter perfectly...
As the heir to a diamond mine fortune
Hey now, let's not sully his "good" name. It was an apartheid era emerald mine, not diamond. Very important distinction there which he's been sure to correct people on numerous times.
/s in case that wasn't obvious
I just love how he pontificates about not needing a college degree. Yeah just the profits from your father's child slaves in the emerald mine.
He had idea for x.com - app that does everything even before PayPal was a thing. Trying to turn paypal into x.com was one of the reasons why they kicked him out.
It's a very old fetish of his. Now he want to make Twitter into that. So expect bunch of bullcrap features on x.com including payment handling in near future.
So expect bunch of bullcrap features on reddit including payment handling in near future.
What does Reddit have to do with this? Did I miss something?
That domain would be much better suited as an XCOM 3 promo site.
(It’ll come out one day for sure)
Because he's unoriginal and thinks it's cool.
And he’s unaware that X is the signature of personal that cannot read or write.
Remember those losers in high school who would make their gamer tag xXDarkLordXx because they thought it was cool.
That’s the kind of man child we are dealing with
lmao I used xXzeeroXx at, yes, around 12-15 years old. Only on Xbox Live, appropriately enough.
i had a friend with the most horrific name: xXiHazCupkakeXx
gotta give her some slack though because we were 9
Musk's first major company was X.com, an online bank he founded in 1999 which eventually became PayPal after a merger. The domain X.com, which Musk bought back from PayPal in 2017, holds significant sentimental value to him.
In addition, the letter "X" is often used to denote the unknown or a variable, which aligns with Musk’s futuristic and ambitious vision for his companies. By using it, he symbolizes exploration and pushing boundaries, which is evident in his projects like SpaceX .
The use of "X" also harkens back to the 90s and early 2000s when adding an "X" to names and brands was seen as cool :D
I think he also remembers how branding of electronics started putting an "i" in front of everything after the success of the first iPhone, leading to lots of things being synonymous with Apple even if they didn't actually make it. I wouldn't be surprised if he was trying to replicate that branding success with the letter "X", so that people think anything with a prominent "X" in the name is something to do with Musk - but he's not really doing it properly.
It's an interesting observation :)
Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like this comment was made by ai?
Not just you. I was going to make the same comment.
hes an edgy early teen at heart
What's sad and hilarious is that he ISN'T edgy, he just thinks he is.
The great prophet DMX was trying to warn us about “X gon’ give it to ya” but we didn’t listen, now here we are…
Because he's 13
No, that's Taylor Swift.
"The 'X' makes it sound cool" - Bender Bending Rodriguez.
He's essentially trying to craft his own modern day alphabet, where 'X' is the letter that represents the unknown variable in all of his works. Whether it's technology, social media, or space, he's aiming to be the alpha and the 'X,' the starting and ending point of innovation. A one man band playing the tune of the future, where each 'X' in the lineup is another step towards a monopoly of cutting edge enterprises. The 'X' is his branding baton in this relay race against obsolescence.
After reading so many dumb replies to such an obvious question, it's nice to see someone actually understands it!
lol I actually laughed out loud because I thought this was the dumbest reply of all of them
Yet another demonstration of what an abject dork he is. Dude is in his 50s and still has the same idea of "cool" he had in the 90s and he was wrong about what was cool in the 90s. He's pathetic.
I seem to recall something from design marketing about seven sexy letters:
- X - Visually striking and has a unique, sharp sound.
- Z - Dynamic shape and energetic sound.
- S - Smooth, flowing shape and sleek sound.
- M - Balanced, symmetrical shape and soothing sound.
- K - Bold, angular shape and impactful sound.
- L - Elegant shape and fluid sound.
- V - Vibrant shape and strong sound.
Because back in the day, Peter Thiel fired him for registering the domain and trying to rebrand paypal with it (basically a naked power grab, because he was still a nonvested w-2 employee at the time, so was going to swap control of the domain for an equity taste), now he's dug in his heels, and wants to rebrand the entire world X
It's mostly because he's a fucking idiot.
I highly recommend the Dollop podcast’s two parter on him.
I only recently found out he tried calling his lineup of cars " S E X Y" but because Ford had the model E, he had to use 3
Because of his grandfather's (Joshua Haldeman) belief in Technocracy.
This is the correct answer. This should be the top response. Elon had a tight relationship with his grandfather and they believed in technocracy, which isn't as nice as it sounds. The fact that he named his son that ridiculous name also falls in line with this. The podcast "The Dollop" did a good workup on all of this.
For those inclined to educate themselves :
SpaceX does actually make sense. the full name is Space Exploration Technologies. shortened to SpaceX
When you are a teenager, you believed things like Neon Polarized Shades, Slang-Words like “rad” and having “X” everywhere representing “Extreme” (Like the X-games) sounds super cool.
Since Elon is just going through his adolescence, that’s the exact result we get
Because he's a massive tool.
he's illiterate, but still feels the need to put his signature on everything
"Osiris Risen"
Honestly, cause he is autistic and it's his hyperfixation.
Cause X gon’ give it to ya
The X billionaire
Because he wants to?
X is probably his favorite letter and the letter X is a symbol of innovation and mysterious stuff like the X-Factor, the X-Men, or even the common cliche of spelling “extreme” like “Xtreme”.
There is a great podcast about this very question called "Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket" by Jill Lepore. In it she delves into this question and comes up with the answers (I dont want to spoil it for you).
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/elon-musk-the-evening-rocket
He's a Huge Kingdom Hearts fan.
because idiots think the letter 'x' is edgy, for some reason.
Elon Mux
He is trying to be like apple with the "i"
Even back into the days where he bought into PayPal, Musk has been obsessed with rebranding things to “X”. In several interviews he’s claimed that he wanted to change PayPal/Twitter (depending on when the interview was conducted) to accompany a transition to more of an all-in-one platform beyond their main functions.
Why he wants a single generic letter to be the specific moniker is anyone’s guess.
His second company was X.com an Online bank
To remind him of his ex
because he is generation x and in most news articles they skip form boomers to millenials like generation x does not exist and did nothing
All of his companies are sort of working toward the same goal. You should think of them as a research enterprise that makes a company and sells the products of their research to fund themselves. All companies have the approximate goal of supporting the first manned mission to Mars.
Tesla car models S, 3, X and Y. "SEXY"
Because he’s x-tupid.
He just thinks it’s cool but keeps forcing it when it doesn’t work bc he’s a total loser
He has a small brain and thinks he is cool by adding X to all.
A complete mess of a human, deciding that the letter X is edgy
It's the closest he could get without using an actual swastika.
hes actually an edgy 13 year old wearing a middle aged man costume
He’s “edgy” lol
He thinks that it looks cool.
No.
Really.
That is literally it. He thinks "X" looks cool. There isn't a deeper meaning here.
Because he's a fucking idiot
That’s how all the women and kids in his life refer to him.
it was the name of his first successful company back in the 90s dot com boom. been in his brain ever since.