Cards Against Humanity Suing Elon Musk

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Overview

Cards Against Humanity Suing Elon Musk, also known as the Cards Against Humanity Elon Musk Lawsuit, refers to legal action taken by the card game company Cards Against Humanity (CAH) against SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in late September 2024. Cards Against Humanity claimed that Musk had destroyed land owned by the company along the U.S.-Mexico border that it bought in 2017 to thwart then-acting President Donald Trump’s border wall. Cards Against Humanity was suing Musk for $15 million. The company announced the lawsuit on Twitter / X and launched a website called elonowesyou100dollars.com that outlined the feud and upcoming legal action. Many users on X, Reddit and other platforms reacted to the news with memes and posts that championed Cards Against Humanity, while others criticized the company.

Background

In November 2017, the card game company Cards Against Humanity bought a strip of land on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas in order to stop then-acting President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the border.^[2]^[3]

Years later, on September 20th, 2024, Cards Against Humanity posted a tweet^[1] that read, "7 years ago, we bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall. But this year, an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—fucked that land with tractors and garbage, so we’re suing for $15 million." The tweet received over 1.1 million views and 30,000 likes in two days (shown below).

The tweet above included a link to a website called elonowesyou100dollars.com^[4] created by Cards Against Humanity to house info about their lawsuit. The company claimed that Musk's SpaceX began dumping supplies and destroying the land with tractors. Cards Against Humanity also claimed that "SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value."

Online Reactions

Soon after, various users on X levied reactions to Cards Against Humanity's lawsuit, like X^[5] user @esjesjesj on September 20th, 2024, who shared screenshots from elonowesyou100dollars.com, writing, "Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good," gaining over 493,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On September 21st, X^[6] user @slime_machine quoted the abovementioned post, joking, "truly a fierce gut punch to elon as he’s the exact type of guy to think playing cards against humanity is epically based," gaining over 4,700 likes in a day (shown below).

During the same timeframe, conservative pundits bashed Cards Against Humanity's lawsuit as it garnered attention around the web, like X^[9] user @MrAndyNgo on September 21st, 2024, who wrote, "I didn’t know such stupid, frivolous people were behind this card game," receiving over 4,700 likes in a day (shown below).

Other reactions surfaced due to a viral tweet^[7] from @CultureCrave that relayed the news. For instance, on September 20th, X^[8] user @zs_goku quoted the aforementioned tweet, using the Cat Looks Inside meme format, gaining over 122,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Numerous threads and posts discussing the lawsuit appeared on Reddit on September 20th, including posts to the subreddits /r/space,^[10] /r/technology^[11] and /r/WhitePeopleTwitter,^[12] which each gained tens of thousands of upvotes in three days.