Brutal Nickname For Elon Musk Goes Mega-Viral On His Twitter
A stinging nickname for Twitter owner Elon Musk trended this week on his own social media platform: “space Karen.”
The term — a mashup reference to Musk’s ambitions with rocket company SpaceX and a pejorative label usually used to describe a white woman showing privileged behavior — has been tweeted before. But it was turbocharged Friday and early Saturday after a man reportedly calling himself a “ projection activist” cast a series of mocking monikers onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters, with photos and video of his projections going viral.
Twitter's San Francisco headquarters has gone hardcore tonight. #TwitterTakeover pic.twitter.com/DoG5pDD4AD
— Muskrat McRatfu*ker needs to resign as CEO (@christoq) November 18, 2022
Countless users soon began employing the “space Karen” taunt in their own tweets. Other insults projected onto the building, meanwhile, included “bankruptcy baby,” “petulant pimple” and “mediocre manchild.”
The hashtags #RIPTwitter, #GoodByeTwitter and #TwitterDown have also trended on the platform this week as users feared the worst following mass resignations at the company and a number of apparently haphazard decisions from the billionaire owner himself, who completed his acquisition of Twitter last month.
space Karen is pretty funny t.co
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 18, 2022
Whoever projected ‘Elon Musk: Space Karen’ (among a string of other creative and on point insults) onto the twitter headquarters building, I salut you
— LOUISAHHH (@LOUISAHHHh) November 18, 2022
"Space Karen"
If I hadn't fired everyone, I'd want to talk to a manager t.co
— Elon Musk (Parody) (@RobertsOhioD6) November 18, 2022
I am still laughing at “Space Karen”
— Calling All Astronauts (@CAA_Official) November 18, 2022
All the employees who left today should get together and create "Quitter", a social media platform that looks and operates just like Twitter did before Space Karen bought it.
— Mark Russell (@Manruss) November 18, 2022
I think 'Space Karen' is my favourite ?? t.co
— Sue Perkins ?? (@sueperkins) November 18, 2022
“Space Karen”.
I’m going out tonight and I plan to use that. t.co
— Virginia Trioli (@LaTrioli) November 18, 2022
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