Jorge 🇵🇸
Ricki Bowie Knives TarrThis is so sad.
👩🦯The Blind Fraggle@RickiTarr Really? I know you meant the sarcastic kind of sad, but I find it delightful!
@Fragglemuppet Just like anyone buying followers is sad, but damn lol
TatiMitStift@Fragglemuppet @RickiTarr
In Germany you can say "sad" in a derogatory way. It then has pretty much the same meaning as pathetic (same emphasis and such).☝️
In Germany you can say "sad" in a derogatory way. It then has pretty much the same meaning as pathetic (same emphasis and such).☝️
astroPugThat sounds about right for the man who pays others to game for him.
Ko Simon toku ingoa 
@RickiTarr it’s probably his employees making fake accounts to meet KPI’s for his follower count.
nickapos@RickiTarr he is pathetic in many many ways and this is not a surprise at all.
GayDeceiver@RickiTarr well, I’m sure he was the weird rich kid whose mom had to pay kids to be friends with him, and his father thought was a mistake and told him all the time.
Fiona Gregory@GayDeceiver I believe this is sadly true, at least the father part.
Pistolenkind@RickiTarr He also fakes statistics of how good he performs in video games. The richest man on earth is that insecure. No Joke. l mean, l am a gamer too. Who flexes with videogames anyways? Musk is the biggest clown i know. And the sadest. What a muppet.
(he pays people to play for him. lt is proven)
(he pays people to play for him. lt is proven)
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
Nienkez@RickiTarr @touaregtweet He and Trump are both obsessed with crowdsizes.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@RickiTarr Pathetic, actually.
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦@RickiTarr I mean it was pretty much the norm on that platform so he’s just conforming to the culture he bought.
PedestrianError 
@RickiTarr Whatever happened to the confidence of a mediocre white man?
Erik Kramer@RickiTarr Given that this a post from Oct 2024 (when he broke the 200M mark) and referring to an older account of his followers, I tracked down the following:
https://time.com/6171726/elon-musk-fake-followers/ from 2022
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data from 2023
I’m guessing the stats still hold, or have grown worse as https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-declining-user-base-2025
@TecherKramer Omg of course, it just feels like he's even more despised now.
EndicottRoad59@RickiTarr The number is as artificial as he is.
Lydia Conwell 
@RickiTarr I'm pretty sure you could do that on Fedi by just hacking the software you're using and make it look like you've got a million admirers in no time.
@lydiaconwell Of course, but I think people would figure it out pretty quickly here lol
wendivibe@RickiTarr @jstatepost Hot air, but not very hot.
Robert BergerElon Musk is a little, fascistic, racist South African who has fraudulently obtained American citizenship and his billions. And to whom democracy was served as dessert on a silver platter by Trump.
@Robbe_Duesseldorf That should be his X bio lol
DeterioratedStucco
Dave Everitt
David Penfold 
@RickiTarr What a sad man.
Parade du Grotesque 💀It's a strategy: he is gaming his own algo.
I am ready to bet you that accounts with, say, 1M to 10M followers will be seen a lot more frequently than accounts with 50K followers (etc.).
So Xitter is just becoming all Elon all the time.
@ParadeGrotesque Twitter was always gamed, I have much fewer followers here, but so much more interaction. Even removing that this is just part of Fedi culture, there's just so many more fake accounts and bots
Brian Grinter@RickiTarr @lisamelton and hilarious at the same time
BeeCycling@RickiTarr It's weird that Musk has a picture of Jared Isaacman doing the first civilian spacewalk as his banner. I know that was on a SpaceX flight, but it's really starting to make me wonder why Elon hasn't gone to space himself yet, when he's so keen on Mars and has a space rocket company. Bezos and Branson have been up to sub-orbital. Do you reckon he doesn't trust his own rockets with his own life?
Misuse Case@beecycling @RickiTarr Astronauts have to be very physically fit to withstand the stresses of takeoff, landing, and prolonged periods of zero g in between. And Musk, well…he’s probably not in great condition after consuming copious amounts of drugs.
(Also it’s difficult or impossible to take all his usual drugs in space.)
@MisuseCase @RickiTarr Good point. Though 90 year old William Shatner went up in a Bezos rocket. But then again, even at 90 he's probably still healthier and has taken fewer drugs than Elon.
Lulu Helle 
@RickiTarr probably bought them from a bot farm
i_give_u_worms@RickiTarr
can't buy that kind of cringe
can't buy that kind of cringe