Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a preposterous $43 billion and issues have gotten stranger day-after-day since. Frankly, it is all an excessive amount of to summarize but it surely has been one bizarre, shortsighted resolution after the following with Musk on the helm.
The most recent oddity? Musk has swapped out the Twitter emblem with Doge, the canine meme of which the billionaire is tremendous fond. Within the higher left nook of your browser, whereas on Twitter, it’s now a shiba inu as an alternative of a chook. Positive, why not? It is not any much less bizarre than, nicely, the rest Musk does. It is lame, sure, however so is most of what he finds humorous.
Musk first posted an previous meme concerning the change.
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He then adopted that tweet up with a screenshot of an previous trade he had concerning the change. Principally, he lengthy admitted this is able to be very humorous to him, which is wildly cringey.
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The web wasn’t as happy with stunt as Musk.
Briefly: Everybody was laughing at Musk not with him. It is simply such an odd, bizarre, unfunny factor to do. The person can flush $43 billion down the bathroom as a lot as he needs, however that is such a lame method to do it. Musk is principally turning Twitter in jokes that weren’t actually all that humorous again after they had been well-liked in like…2011. These are the type of jokes individuals half-chuckled at again when everybody was unironically calling every part “epic.”
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Musk is definitely being sued by traders claiming he pumped up(Opens in a brand new tab) Dogecoin’s worth — the crypto utilizing the meme — on the expense of different traders. And but, right here we’re, with Doge as Twitter’s emblem two days after April Fools’ Day. Par for the course with Musk’s model of Twitter.