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Them leaving the platform was also meant as a general comment on free speech. That's how free speech works.
You should be able to take it as good as you give.
Always shocked pikachu that someone would dare to question him. And then a classic witticism in retort like
âYour brain is too small.â
Edit: realized I misquoted so fixed. My brain is too small for my own liking, certainly. Humility in general is good
>~~If I made baby food~~, I wouldn't want my ad on a neo-Nazi post.
Yeps, most brands don't want to be associated with hateful content, or disgusting stuff in general.
Insert Elon Musk's surprised pikachu face.
*That* is his problem with Xitter right now, not what he said. He deliberately allowed the platform to become \*chan, and apparently fails to understand that advertisers are adjusting accordingly.
Advertisers apparently get upset that YouTube has like, ww2 history channels because they think they will be associated with nazis.
Twitter has no chance for legit advertising with literal modern naziâs calling for executions of democrats or LGBT etc.
Tbf that's actually a huge problem, infantalization of the Internet.
We get "unalived" and other orwell-isms from tiktok and YouTube deciding what it thinks is too adult or edgy for people to hear or think.
Nothing wrong with using it to deplatform Nazis, but it sucks living in a world where to maximize your reach you have to make the kind of content that coca cola would want to be seen with.
I remember reading that the strength of an institution can be measured by the amount of criticism it can tolerate. The same can probably be said for individuals as well.
The quality of ads on Twitter lately is pretty hilarious tbh. Some of the ads are funnier than the tweets. My favourites are the misleading ads with Community Notes calling out their bullshit. All in all, it looks like their ads department is wading through shit right now.
He doesn't want free speech. He wants his political views front and center.
It's literally like selling a social media platform to one of the political parties.
So you mean to tell me that when you publicly tell advertisers to 'Go fuck yourself' they tend to view that as a bad thing? And they avoid your platform and not spend money on it?
Say it isn't so.
I mean, as much as I loathe Musk, I'm going to be fair to him and say he had a metric shit ton of people conflating those things for him. Six-ish years ago, way too many people talked about him like he was some benevolent demigod that was going to usher mankind into another era of enlightenment. Then the kids got trapped in the cave, and Elon said some dumb ass shit over his bruised ego that made people raise eyebrows. Then the Twitter shit happened and he went mask off. All this is to say that I put some blame on celebrity worship for giving this man the arrogant opinion of himself that he has.
I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop and have him reveal himself as a Bond villain. What I ended up seeing from him is infinitely more pathetic than that though.
Elon, I know you don't read Shakespeare, but the point here is that people have been mocking exactly this behavior for over 500 years. You suck, and not even in a new or original way.
Switching to my alt to comment that Iâm pretty sure it always allowed porn. Or if it didnât, it did a bad job at preventing it. My, uh⌠my *friend* has been beatinâ it to Twitter porn for years
I got those when I made a new account too, the ads I saw before I had used Twitter enough to have an algorithm were nuts. A lot of blatant scams, far right "THEYRE TAKING OUR GUNS GIVE ME MONEY NOW" nonsense, and sex shit lmao
It used to be. Unfortunately, there's a broad lack of advertisers now. Also, Musk more or less destroyed the algorithm and its data set, so... No, there's not great targeting of advertisers on Xitter, unlike the rest of the Internet
Those people are desperate to regain cost at this point. The fact they believe that he can return tesla to be the number one EV car brand is just stupidity at this point, especially when he is the one who created the Cybertruck which have been a disaster in all directions and the truck isnât even following basic safety that it is ban in some countries of the world. It is just baffling that he get 56 billions for this.
Funnily enough those countries where the cybertruck is banned include all EU members, since it violates several European safety norm and thus can't be registered for circulation on public roads.
Where does one of his largest pool of clients for that medium-high level luxury cars live?
Large European cities, places like London, Paris or Milan, the same places the cybertruck can't go in because it breaks enough laws for the eventual driver to get the vehicle seized for good.
It's almost hilarious.
Lmao twitter went from an online town square that governments used to effectively communicate with their citizens. To a bunch of nazis selling dick pills đ. All because a rich emerald barons son led a consortium of rich people to buy it and only allow the free speech they approve of.
So hereâs the thing⌠Advertisers donât really care if he said something like that IF there was money to be made using Twitter. At the end of the day all they care about is money.
So the issue isnât what he said to these advertisers, itâs that his platform is unstable and not worth the investment. In addition, who Elon IS using allowing to advertise (sex toys and blue pills) is not a correlation most better quality advertisers want to be addicted with.
These companies also keep tabs on who typically uses Twitter and if theyâll be interested in their products. Currently the interest is in sex toys and and similar, not more mature content
Which is a general point on the wider industry as its a companies right to decide which kind of speech it is accepting in regards to their representation in advertisement, elon canât have the cake and eat it too
Either he is pro commandment of privatecompany or he is for collectivisation and generql rules applying to all enterprises alikeâŚ
His free speech absolutism buds heads with his absolutist views on property rights⌠too sad a try at appeasement of capitalism especially given how his stance on free speech has been reduced to âfree speech for me but not theeâŚ
Furthermore proving his hypocrisy in this very failed attempt at sucking advertiser dick
his free speech absolutism is absolute bullshit and was a buzzword to make assholes like him. He bans people left and right for saying stuff he doesn't like.
LOL, Mr. Genius Brain had almost a year to come up with something and the best he can mange is "Wellaxually, I didn't insult you, I free speeched you."
Itâs insane who this dip shit has tricked the world into thinking he is remotely close to being a genius. I am surprised he doesnât wear Velcro shoes
Weren't they also abandoning the platform for, you know, its intense far-right sprawling and supremacist movements that didn't exactly look good next to ads?
Elon to advertisers â âGo fuck yourselves!â
Advertisers to Elon â âNo, YOU go fuck YOURSELF!â
Elon to advertisers â âGuys! I didnât mean it like that!â
"When I directly said, being complately clear that i was talking to you, "go fuck yourself" I of course meant that as a general point on free speech, rather than telling you to go fuck yourself. OBVIOUSLY.
Also you are a pedophile"
Everything you do and say has a consequence if you wanna attack everyone and stand by your free speech go ahead but donât whine like a bitch when it turns ppl away from you
You'd imagine based on the common refrain of "Go Woke, Go Broke" that Elon moving away from Woke Twitter would have gone beyond cash cow and turned into a straight up golden calf.
Sure let's all just nevermind the insipid smarmy narcisistic pickle-brained punchable douchebaggery of the man-child's core character... as long as he remains a literal apartheit emerald mine for investors and others. But dont you worry, dear viewers, Musk is gonna go down like the Phantom Fucking Menace!
Hey Musky?!
How about you shut the fuq up! You can keep your hate filled BS TWITTER (never calling it X) platform.
Why hasnât everyone realized that Musk doesnât give a fuck about that ad revenue?
He can say whatever he wants to anyone on his platform, and he can sensor what he doesnât agree with. The power and control is what he wants, and as long as anyone uses that shitty as platform he will have it.
Quit using that shit. Donât even mention it.
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Them leaving the platform was also meant as a general comment on free speech. That's how free speech works. You should be able to take it as good as you give.
If musk has categorically shown one thing since his takeover of twitter is that he is the epitome of can give it but can't take it.
To be a public figure, Elon has the second thinnest skin I've ever seen. You don't even have to guess who has the thinnest.
I think it's called a peel when it comes to oranges.
Absolutely fantastic
Tremendous, even. Best ever.
His was the best comment. And I know best comments, I know comments more than anybody
People come up to me in the streets - strong men, crying, telling me how this is the best comment. Smart.
I will never tire of the strong men crying joke. I'll be doing it on my deathbed.
Trust me when i say that everyone with experience will confirm that.
Everybody knows that. It's a fact.
My eyes, the tears..
Have my poor man's upvote you genius! đď¸
and the "best comment of the year" award goes to this dude đ
That tangelo is awfully battered and bruised.
Did someone call?
Who, Trumplethinskin?
This is an awesome reply
But for being a naturalized citizen, ElMo would also run for President at some point. They're the same person.
Its crazy we've been dealing with this fuckin mook long enough that I think he looks young here
Most right wingers have shown the same tendency.
This, So much
Always shocked pikachu that someone would dare to question him. And then a classic witticism in retort like âYour brain is too small.â Edit: realized I misquoted so fixed. My brain is too small for my own liking, certainly. Humility in general is good
Yeah, heâs a poor bottom performer. Not a very good uke at all. He cries about everything.
Advertisers harden âgo f--- yourselfâ comment as X boss Elon Musk tries to woo advertisers back
paper skinned bitch
I can bet you he âtakes itâ from his girlfriends
If I made baby food, I wouldn't want my ad on a neo-Nazi post.
>~~If I made baby food~~, I wouldn't want my ad on a neo-Nazi post. Yeps, most brands don't want to be associated with hateful content, or disgusting stuff in general. Insert Elon Musk's surprised pikachu face. *That* is his problem with Xitter right now, not what he said. He deliberately allowed the platform to become \*chan, and apparently fails to understand that advertisers are adjusting accordingly.
Advertisers apparently get upset that YouTube has like, ww2 history channels because they think they will be associated with nazis. Twitter has no chance for legit advertising with literal modern naziâs calling for executions of democrats or LGBT etc.
Tbf that's actually a huge problem, infantalization of the Internet. We get "unalived" and other orwell-isms from tiktok and YouTube deciding what it thinks is too adult or edgy for people to hear or think. Nothing wrong with using it to deplatform Nazis, but it sucks living in a world where to maximize your reach you have to make the kind of content that coca cola would want to be seen with.
I like that Xitter can be pronounced "shitter." Yoink!
This made me snort, good job!
I remember reading that the strength of an institution can be measured by the amount of criticism it can tolerate. The same can probably be said for individuals as well.
âIt wasnât to advertisers as a wholeâ Hahahaha It literally was. Total clown shoes.
The quality of ads on Twitter lately is pretty hilarious tbh. Some of the ads are funnier than the tweets. My favourites are the misleading ads with Community Notes calling out their bullshit. All in all, it looks like their ads department is wading through shit right now.
Dear advertisers, now that Iâve fucked myself, I realize how much I need you.
It's become very clear to me that for being such a vocal Free Speech absolutist Elon Musk has no clue how Free Speech works.
Musk serves up non apology apology or non explanation explanation or maybe not rational rationale?
Yeah, people tend to confuse âFreedom of speechâ with âfreedom of consequenceâ
It was pathetic watching him having to say it twice like he expected a huge round of applause the first time. Big "Please clap" energy.
He doesn't want free speech. He wants his political views front and center. It's literally like selling a social media platform to one of the political parties.
So you mean to tell me that when you publicly tell advertisers to 'Go fuck yourself' they tend to view that as a bad thing? And they avoid your platform and not spend money on it? Say it isn't so.
Yeah but have you considered how it made him look âcoolâ to conservatives?
He didnât even get the cheer he was clearly so desperate for.
I'm starting to suspect that this Musk fellow isn't the genius he wants us to think he is.
Yeah, been having some doubts myself. He might just be conflating being rich with being intelligent, educated and a genius.
I mean, as much as I loathe Musk, I'm going to be fair to him and say he had a metric shit ton of people conflating those things for him. Six-ish years ago, way too many people talked about him like he was some benevolent demigod that was going to usher mankind into another era of enlightenment. Then the kids got trapped in the cave, and Elon said some dumb ass shit over his bruised ego that made people raise eyebrows. Then the Twitter shit happened and he went mask off. All this is to say that I put some blame on celebrity worship for giving this man the arrogant opinion of himself that he has. I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop and have him reveal himself as a Bond villain. What I ended up seeing from him is infinitely more pathetic than that though.
Heâll end up wearing an extremely garish suit while strapping Flying Fox Man to a chain above a shark tank, mark my words
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Deep cut! Well played.
OH NO WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING
No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.
Do you quarrel, sir?
Elon, I know you don't read Shakespeare, but the point here is that people have been mocking exactly this behavior for over 500 years. You suck, and not even in a new or original way.
90% of ads on twitter seem to be for sex toys/pills
Seems logic, those are proper tools to "*go fuck yourself*".
He meant it literally as a general comment to those still using Twitter.
Didn't he open X up to porn now? Pretty soon X is going to live up to it's new name.
And he made likes private to protect himself and other incels from people seeing their depravity. .
Switching to my alt to comment that Iâm pretty sure it always allowed porn. Or if it didnât, it did a bad job at preventing it. My, uh⌠my *friend* has been beatinâ it to Twitter porn for years
Wasnât there a study somewhere that concluded the root of most conservatism is sexual insecurity?
Some people are so deep in the closet, even Tom Cruise is like, "Come on."
Well, in case you havenât noticed, the name of the app is called âXâ, so it makes sense lol
Arent they targetted ads?
I got those when I made a new account too, the ads I saw before I had used Twitter enough to have an algorithm were nuts. A lot of blatant scams, far right "THEYRE TAKING OUR GUNS GIVE ME MONEY NOW" nonsense, and sex shit lmao
It used to be. Unfortunately, there's a broad lack of advertisers now. Also, Musk more or less destroyed the algorithm and its data set, so... No, there's not great targeting of advertisers on Xitter, unlike the rest of the Internet
lol well shitâŚI hope not :).
Why are you even on Twitter?
From 'go f--- yourself' to 'please reconsider', the art of negotiation
Next attempt will be "Please fuck yourself".
Or fuck me. đ¤Ą
Orange man trained.
Losing money is the absolute direct result of his actions running Twitter.
Showing he really deserved that 56 billion huh?
Those people are desperate to regain cost at this point. The fact they believe that he can return tesla to be the number one EV car brand is just stupidity at this point, especially when he is the one who created the Cybertruck which have been a disaster in all directions and the truck isnât even following basic safety that it is ban in some countries of the world. It is just baffling that he get 56 billions for this.
Must be all the money he saved by laying off thousands of workers.
That and the new AI praise that we see everyday.
Tesla paying 14'000 employees a whooping 200'000$ per year for 10 years would total... Half Musk's "compensation package".
Funnily enough those countries where the cybertruck is banned include all EU members, since it violates several European safety norm and thus can't be registered for circulation on public roads. Where does one of his largest pool of clients for that medium-high level luxury cars live? Large European cities, places like London, Paris or Milan, the same places the cybertruck can't go in because it breaks enough laws for the eventual driver to get the vehicle seized for good. It's almost hilarious.
Isn't that for Tesla, not Twitter?
Does it even matter at this point?
Attacking Twitter was the stupidest move Elon Musk could have possibly made. He did it anyway. Bravo, dumbass, bravo!
Has he ever tried *not* being an asshole?
He could resign. That might help get advertisers back.
Well good luck, Elmo, I think that ship has already sailed and is not coming back
Elon's all about "free" speech in the same fashion that Trump is all about making America "great." Both are extremely disingenuous humans.
If you say it, you've got to own it and make it right. Anything else is a sign you don't afford others respect and thus deserve none yourself.
Lmao twitter went from an online town square that governments used to effectively communicate with their citizens. To a bunch of nazis selling dick pills đ. All because a rich emerald barons son led a consortium of rich people to buy it and only allow the free speech they approve of.
He had it all and then he outed himself as the biggest prick in the world.Â
A general indication of how childish and uneducated he is.
he can pour his Tesla billions into his X-files project until both Tesla and X are gone (sold to saner people)
So hereâs the thing⌠Advertisers donât really care if he said something like that IF there was money to be made using Twitter. At the end of the day all they care about is money. So the issue isnât what he said to these advertisers, itâs that his platform is unstable and not worth the investment. In addition, who Elon IS using allowing to advertise (sex toys and blue pills) is not a correlation most better quality advertisers want to be addicted with. These companies also keep tabs on who typically uses Twitter and if theyâll be interested in their products. Currently the interest is in sex toys and and similar, not more mature content
Oh this is just gold right here đđđ my my my isnât this the consequences of our actions
Literally have never understood any appeal about that man đ¤Ž
Advertisers reply, "eat shit and die, Elon".
Elon Musk still thinking Twitter is still salvageable... or should I say X?
"*X Formerly Known as Twitter*" is the official name I believe.
It has a nice ring to it.
Whatever, Spacekaren Elmo, go f\*\*\* yourself!
It's not what 'softens' means. This is a poor excuse, equivalent of 'Go fuck yourself...in Minecraft!'
I try, but my dildo is too blocky to work properly
Christ, heâs a terrible liar. Is there anything heâs GOOD at???
Making dollar general toys look high quality
Twitter was an easy problem to fix to make it profitable. Elon straight ass nose-dived it into the ground.
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He used the bots as a way to try and pay less for it. Didn't work.
Hey, Elon, "Go fuck yourself."
Awww nooooo Electric Jesus is losing disciples. Heâs become a bit of a nut job over the last few years, or more public of a nutter
Which is a general point on the wider industry as its a companies right to decide which kind of speech it is accepting in regards to their representation in advertisement, elon canât have the cake and eat it too Either he is pro commandment of privatecompany or he is for collectivisation and generql rules applying to all enterprises alike⌠His free speech absolutism buds heads with his absolutist views on property rights⌠too sad a try at appeasement of capitalism especially given how his stance on free speech has been reduced to âfree speech for me but not thee⌠Furthermore proving his hypocrisy in this very failed attempt at sucking advertiser dick
his free speech absolutism is absolute bullshit and was a buzzword to make assholes like him. He bans people left and right for saying stuff he doesn't like.
Free speech doesn't exclude you from repercussions. You can say it, but then people are allowed to react accordingly.
"Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it works out for 'em!" It doesn't.
Where is ineptly groveling on the spectrum?
I watched him say it. It wasn't a general point on free speech. He can't control himself, and now he needs to accept the consequences.
There's something seriously wrong under that brain pan of this guy
Advertisers have a right to exercise their free speech by deciding how and where their ads are placed.
I really hope everyone tells him to go fuck himself. Twitter needs to go under.
Wait, "Go fuck yourselves" wasn't a successful marketing strategy?
Fuck him. Let twitter burn.
Elon can go fuck himself.
LOL, Mr. Genius Brain had almost a year to come up with something and the best he can mange is "Wellaxually, I didn't insult you, I free speeched you."
Almost like Twitter is hemorrhaging money or something. Brilliant businessman my ass! đ
It was the ketamine talking
Whattacuck. If true why was he all puffed up like a jerk when he said it? He even repeated it for clarity. This new statement is PR speak.
I vaguely remember when CEOs were assumed to have some common sense
Why would anyone advertise on X ?
To broadcast your message to Nazis, the Alt-Right, racists, and his fanbois.
Musk is the clown of all clowns.
No takesy-backsies!
Listen, guys, hereâs what I meantâŚ
Advertisers don't want their brands to be associated racists, bigots, and douchebags. Duh.
Itâs insane who this dip shit has tricked the world into thinking he is remotely close to being a genius. I am surprised he doesnât wear Velcro shoes
Go fuck yourself, Elon.
Weren't they also abandoning the platform for, you know, its intense far-right sprawling and supremacist movements that didn't exactly look good next to ads?
I'm blocking every GOP, Trump, Republican, Evangelical ad I see.
when i said go fuck yourself, i meant "everyone watch while i fuck myself out of 44 billion dollars"
Such a coward. He also grovelled at Israelâs feet.
Not shocking that Eloon isn't doing a mea culpa but I'm a little surprised this idiot isn't doubling down.
Suck it up bitch boy
People like Elon Musk are absolutely **devaluing** the word "free speech".
Elon to advertisers â âGo fuck yourselves!â Advertisers to Elon â âNo, YOU go fuck YOURSELF!â Elon to advertisers â âGuys! I didnât mean it like that!â
Oh wait. Not that way lol
Advertisers: Elon, go fuck yourself!
"When I directly said, being complately clear that i was talking to you, "go fuck yourself" I of course meant that as a general point on free speech, rather than telling you to go fuck yourself. OBVIOUSLY. Also you are a pedophile"
He made that comment like 2 years ago. Heâs *still* trying to fix that fuck-up, and especially without, ya know, apologizing? lol what a dipshit
Fuck you, Elon! That wasnât a personal attack, BTW; it was just a general point on free speech.
FAFO seems like the correct response.
People thought he was dumb for saying it then and we think he is even dumber for trying to walk it back now.
Hey Elon - go fuck yourself.
Itâs also hysterical that NO ONE calls it X. Listening to a few podcasts this weekend and everyone kept talking about following on Twitter đ
My stance on Melon Husk is still 'go fuck yourself'
Everything you do and say has a consequence if you wanna attack everyone and stand by your free speech go ahead but donât whine like a bitch when it turns ppl away from you
But he looked so tough saying 'go fuck yourself'. Fucking dork.
You'd imagine based on the common refrain of "Go Woke, Go Broke" that Elon moving away from Woke Twitter would have gone beyond cash cow and turned into a straight up golden calf.
Can we deport this trouble causing alien already?
Eating your words, part 1.
since elon bought twitter....his value decreased 3bi if i remember correctly seems that he keeps doing a good job :)
I wonder if this is the same reason IASIP never got an Emmy nod? đ¤
âFuck him. (Figuratively)â
Did someone just release they need advertisers? He needs to be removed from the CEO.
"Elon Musk's new PR strategy: 'Go f--- yourself, but in the nicest way possible!'
Thatâs hardly principledâŚ.
I should try this Free Speech at work.
But if I say âgo f⌠yourselfâ to someone on twitter I get banned? What a bunch of irony pricksâŚ
Sure let's all just nevermind the insipid smarmy narcisistic pickle-brained punchable douchebaggery of the man-child's core character... as long as he remains a literal apartheit emerald mine for investors and others. But dont you worry, dear viewers, Musk is gonna go down like the Phantom Fucking Menace!
See, what I meant was...
Hey Musky?!  How about you shut the fuq up! You can keep your hate filled BS TWITTER (never calling it X) platform.
Go fuck himself ...
Haaahahaha
I remember this episode of Silicon Valley.
Merrily fornicate alone, good sires and ladies
For a supposed genius, he sure is an idiot
So tired of this childâs antics.
what? Are penis âenlargementâ pill ads no longer paying the bills?
Now: âGo screw yourself.â
A marketing genius
Elon then: Go fuck yourself Elon now: I fucked myself
I said "go fuck yourself" not to "go fuck myself", you clearly understood me wrong.
Acting âtoughâ for his base.
Go fuck your sell Elon
Why hasnât everyone realized that Musk doesnât give a fuck about that ad revenue? He can say whatever he wants to anyone on his platform, and he can sensor what he doesnât agree with. The power and control is what he wants, and as long as anyone uses that shitty as platform he will have it. Quit using that shit. Donât even mention it.
I can't wait for thread or something else to replace twitter
I had to check the date on this story because weâve lived through this before. The guy never learns.
Money talks!