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Elon Musk Holding a Minigun

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Elon Musk Holding a Minigun or Elon Musk's Meme Review Tweet refers to a photograph of Elon Musk holding a two-handed device, presumably a prop minigun, originating from a tweet in which he referred to hosting Meme Review web series. In January 2019, the photograph was circulated on Reddit and Twitter as an exploitable.

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On January 27th, 2019, Elon Musk tweeted[1] a photograph of himself holding a two-handed device, presumably a prop minigun or a flamethrower, with a caption "Host meme review?", referring to PewDiePie's weekly YouTube series Meme Review. The tweet received over 80,000 retweets and 385,000 likes in 12 hours.



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On the same day, YouTube personalities MrBeast[2], PewDiePie [3], Maxmoefoe[4] and Dolan Dark [5] reacted to the tweet, with PewDiePie responding with an invitation to host the show.





Online, the photograph has been circulated as an object-labeling meme and an exploitable, with notable examples posted on Twitter, Reddit and VK.

The Elon Musk's tweet and online reaction to it were covered by several news outlets, including Dexerto[6], Inquisitr[7] and Metro[8].

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