I must admit, the little red devil perched upon my left shoulder loves the new X and dare I say under the leadership of Elon Musk.
Not always a popular opinion with people who think hes the devil incarnate and this isnt to say that I love everything he does. Actually, a lot of what he does is rather nauseating.
However, the platform itself is anything but boring these days and a bit of controversy makes the world go round. As long as no one gets seriously hurt, that is.
After Elon Musk notoriously bought out Twitter, recently rebranded as X, he vowed to make it a place where free speech would reign supreme. Hed been a fierce critic of what he deemed as censorship by Twitter under the direction of former CEO Jack Dorsey.
True to his word, after acquiring Twitter, Musk reinstated many accounts that had previously been suspended, like Mike Lindell and Jordan Peterson, and invited back arguably one of the most divisive personalities ever, former President Donald Trump (who said he was just fine sticking with his far-right Truth Social platform.)
To be sure, I dont care for any of these people, Lindell and Peterson are completely ignorable in my book, and Im glad Trump stayed away in his own online hemisphere.
Free speech is awesome but inciting violence is not.
In another controversial move, Musk eventually declared parody accounts would be allowed as long as they were indeed labeled as parody.
Well now, Musk opened the door, so he had to be prepared to walk through it, right? Remember, hed previously suspended Kathy Griffin for her own parody, although she was reinstated days later.
But, prepared he was.
One of the most popular parody accounts currently on the platform is the one of Elon Musk himself. How fitting indeed.
This meme of Musk dressed up as (perhaps?) a secret Barbie fan proved popular as well as this one of a homeless Musk:
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