RedditEnjoyerElon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges
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“I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.
He’s been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.
Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It’s not a value that’s always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.
If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn’t even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault
Reminds me of the people who say things like “I say it like it is, and most people don’t like it”…not knowing that the reason they don’t have many friends is because they don’t have a filter and don’t think they need one, lol
But this looks like Elon Musk admitting that he’s genuinely an idiot, lol
Yeah I robbed that gas station but at least some crime boss didn’t make me do it. It was genuine so you should forgive me
Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier.
sounds like he needs that PR department
That and a set of kneepads.
That’s pretty much how he kept the public image of “eccentric genius” for so many years. I once read an article (can’t remember where, don’t care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.
When Twitter was infested, it didn’t have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.
I’m still trying to figure how anyone (including Musk) ever thought he was a genius? Like ok so he has a lot of money that he throws at interesting problems, and those problems attract actual geniuses to solve, but what has Musk himself ever done except be an employer? It reminds me of all the talk about how Edison was supposed to be a genius, when the reality was that he ran a sweatshop to steal other people’s hard work.
No one who knew him probably ever did. This is par for the course with billionaires. People see a walking paycheck, they want their ear and their investments. So they flock to him to get their dream projects done, knowing fully that he will steal and claim any success while throwing them under the bus for any setback. Everyone thinks they can control the dragon. But when he is controlling the actual operations usually shit just goes in flames. That’s everything he is ever been.
but which would you say came first: The Dragon or elon being perceived by others as The Dragon?
i’m sure, as with any big personality, this relationship evolves concurrently and interdependently. I just wish more had seen through him sooner. it was not difficult to predict that he would ultimately undermine himself faster than he would naturally fall out. we will keep seeing more of his type unless we can get a bit faster on the uptake.
It’s been reported he had babysitters since PayPal days. They knew what a shitty manager he was all along. But he had money and was friends with people with even more money.
This happens to anyone rich and/or famous. People flock to them to attempt to ply them with flattery or leach money in some way. Consider how many people say that Trump is a genius.
Idk, I’d prefer if CEOs were more transparent and why mistakes happened instead of the generic PR nonsense of: “We messed up, and we’re sorry. We’re taking time to review what happened to make sure it never happens again.” That kind of statement only matters if there’s some way for the public to know what happened and verify that it actually won’t happen again.
That’s not what we’re getting from Elon, so screw him, but I just figured I’d point out that this particular broken clock could say something close to what we probably all want.
theneverfoxTrouble is, their main job is to game public perception
A transparent, honest CEO would win a lot of people over (although they’d also probably be less likely to ignore the horrible decisions that require apologies)
Just remember - generic PR apologies are an attempt at mimickingv leaders actually taking responsibility for a mistake. The transparency will just become as soulless and corporate as the apologies are now
We need to fix the system to remove the incentive to put heartless demons in positions of power
andrew_bidlawAuthenticity only works when you don’t jump ships and stay on point. Not for billionaires, tho.
“Shoot oneself in the foot” is a really charitable description of “inviting all the worst Nazis back on to social media and removing fact checking.”
Maxnmy'sIs he trying to put on a good appearance for the advertisers? I thought it was strange that he didn’t have a transphobic streak of Twitter interactions this June. Very out of character.
sensiblepuffinMaybe that big bonus package that the board approved stipulated that he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.
CileTheSanehe must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.
Did they sew his mouth shut?
Can’t stop there, you’d have to break his SIM card and tape a sign to his forehead saying “DO NOT LET THIS MAN TWEET”.
huh. that is unexpected isn’t it?
Go eat a dick Elon
Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.
Didn’t he tell advertisers leaving to go fuck themselves? I don’t expect a very long queue of returning ones.
mad_asshatterHe was tolerated as a phreak, but he mistook that tolerance as adulation.
Ultimately his arrogance, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny, and intolerance, leads to ignoring rather than tolerating the phreak.
ThePowerOfGeekOh there’s still far too much adulation. All those Tesla bros, for example. Given what an insufferable turd Musk is, and the crumby reputation Teslas have, I don’t understand it. And I don’t think I ever will.
Agreed.
I, for one, would like to hear Elon beg.
I was gonna say: I’d pay just to see that!
Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!
Go fash, lose cash. 👍🏻
Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.
But if I keep my mouth shut how will I assert that I am the most important human on the planet?
Nope, he can’t manage that. Because he’s an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.
I can’t wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don’t have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I’m not holding my breath.
Doesn’t even have to collect money, he could just sell everything except SpaceX and still live a happy life and fly to Mars one day.
If only… That’s the universe I want to live in.
I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.
He’s the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he’s also basically a badly written Bond villain.
What a pos.
I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.
Jail would be too easy for him. I want him to be on “Would you like fries with that?” for a living. Forced to pander to the people he looked down on in order to put food on the table. Bonus if he also has to work three minimum-wage jobs he hates for a total of sixty hours or more a week.
This would happen in a just world.
It won’t though.
Reminds me of the recent millionaire guy who got lambasted on YT (i think his actual posts were on TikTok?).
Guys, I am going to lock up my money, my phone have no contacts and go to a new city and start from nothing and earn a million dollars in 30 or 90 days or something.
Whoah big surprise, a few weeks in he has to call the whole thing off for health reasons.
OMG he got robbed? Lost his paper work and thus couldn’t get the right aid? The shelters are full? Sleeping outside in a city is extremely dangerous and unhealthy? Your hygiene suffers? No one talks to you or treats you like a human being?
In a just world we’d put the income tax levels back to around FDR levels and thus be able to actually fund social programs and eliminate a great deal of the wealthy’s massive over representation in politics.
Instead it looks like we will be making a b-line toward theocratic corporatocracy.
Blargh.
aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?
Atelopus-zetekiNo! Well, some idiot will. But not this idiot! Have you ever heard of Mastodon Social (https://mastodon.social/)?
https://joinmastodon.org/
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QuantumSoulWhat do you mean ? (sources)
Google “Elon Musk Nazi”, and/or “Elon Musk genocide”
Google 'any name Nazi" and you’ll get results. The question was what are you referring to.
I can’t believe this community would down vote anyone for asking for sources, that’s disgusting. I’m disappointed Lemmy.
If you’re so disgusted and disappointed, why don’t you try to find a different community?
It’s hard to feel disappointed about something you don’t really care about. That is to say, the reason I feel disappointed is because I like this community and I want it to be a place for civil discourse. Conversely, I’ve given up on Reddit, so nothing that happens there can really disappoint me any more, I no longer care about it.
I’m not going to make a fuss about something that doesn’t impact me, but I will make a fuss about something I believe in, like Lemmy.
They asked for a source in the comments about an article that has sources. RTFA.
The article is just a collection of hyperlinks. Useless article and I will not look through all of them, and I couldn’t even know they were talking about something from the article anyway
So you were downvoted for not bothering to read or even skim the article to do a minimum amount of looking on your own to see what they were talking about.
Don’t pretend like the downvoters read anything
Don’t pretend like that’s an argument for you to not bother to read anything and ask others to spoon feed you information.
Stop being so toxic. Usually bold claims like that have nothing to do with the article
Exactly. Having sources is the minimal starting point to make an opinion. That’s not because this community is supposed safe that I could trust any user information
Yes very sourcy
I’m not the one who made the claim, just giving the most basic of research advice
There are links in the actual article being discussed here.
inb4_FoundTheVegan“If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”
Elon, Last year.
Careful, you might convince Tesla shareholders to fork over a few more billion to keep the big brained genius motivated.
“Give me 60 billions this year, or the Tesla stock will lose even of more of its price next year!” – Elon, probably.