Elon Musk 'Stealing' Memes From Hard Drive Magazine Snowballs Into Twitter Beef
On Monday, future Twitter owner hopeful Elon Musk tweeted out a meme, as he often does. This time, however, things did not go as they normally do. Instead of the usual hahas, trolls and crypto scams inundating the replies, it was instead full of callouts, for the meme itself was from an article made by Hard Drive Magazine (one piece of the trifecta of satire news websites) and the people were letting him know.
is posting @HardDriveMag articles without credit the worst thing that Elon Musk has done? not even close. but is it fun that we probably made the richest man on earth feel shitty today? a little bit, yea. a little bit pic.twitter.com/wc6TzqjbXW
β Jeremy Kaplowitz (@jeremysmiles) May 30, 2022
So elon musk reposted a Hard Drive article without credit and when he got called out for it (and ratio'd) he deleted the original post and whined about wokeness.To top it all off he then declared the meme wasn't that funny anyway so THERE. Actual spoiled child behavior lmao. pic.twitter.com/eUMI0NNwjf
β Wootmaster π¦ (@woot_master) May 30, 2022
The situation escalated when Hard Drive themselves tweeted at Musk, creating a back and forth in which Hard Drive created a new article solely to spite Musk, who said that it was unfunny like an SNL skit. This turned out to be an easy "self-own" for Hard Drive to use, as Musk seemingly forgot that his Wario Elon Musk appearence on SNL was so disliked of an event that it actually helped to tank the value of Dogecoin the night it happened.
Though Musk deleted his tweets shortly after, it was too late as more people took notice of the bubbling Twitter beef, with some calling the whole situation a massive L for him.
Elon Musk is constantly taking Ls this year:- Cucked by a trans woman- Ratioβd by Hard Drive Mag- Tesla stock tanks- Sexual Harassment lawsuits- Teslas exploding and recalled- Tried buying twitter to stop people clowning on him, failed- Getting sued for stock manipulation
β ππ³π’π―π₯πΊππ©π¦ππππ§π’π― (@BradyTheWWEFan) May 30, 2022
BREAKING: Elon Musk has made a $45bn bid to purchase Hard Drive Mag pic.twitter.com/JwJbX6Ws4X
β ted cruzynski (@thermitefan) May 30, 2022
Be careful if you live in Austin cause Elon Musk got ratiod three times in a row by Hard Drive and got so mad he went on an angst drive and there's a good chance he'll just turn on the autopilot and set it to Pedestrian Killer https://t.co/rT6OgYt9Jo
β GGA | Misha π³οΈββ§οΈ π¦π· β (@panarin_misha) May 30, 2022
After all was said and done, Hard Drive did the polite thing and apologized to Musk, writing an entire article about it on its website and tweeting it out for people to get an update on.
Hard Drive Apologizes to Elon Musk for Dunking on Him Too Hardhttps://t.co/MiBvjl3jXb
β Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) May 30, 2022
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There's always a lot to criticize about the richest man on the planet. But "He stole a meme." has got to be one of the saddest, most desperate attempts to dunk on someone I've ever seen. Talk about the working conditions in his factories. Or his attitude towards unions. Or environmental protections.
Gen Z progressives really seem like they're feeling the same fear and anxiety over the thought of him buying twitter as we did after 9/11.
mr.fox
β"Talk about the working conditions in his factories. Or his attitude towards unions. Or environmental protections."
Again? Can we please not?
I mean, people have been talking about it for so longβ¦β¦ and yet as always all it did was what just talking about a something does, nothing.
Memeing him for the smallest bullshit at the very least feels funny, because of his 100% garanteed over reactions and tauntrums.
A Concerned Rifleman
Memes? Being stolen? On the internet?
My god, what a heinous crime, memes are sacred, and belong to the place where they're posted, it's not like the internet culture consists of a hybrid human centipede-Ouroboros of reposts upon reposts upon reposts until the entire thing is so homogenized it's considered safe for consumption by the FDA.
Revic
It's all right. He apparently agreed enough to delete it!
PhasmaFelis
The notable thing isn't that he stole a meme. It's that he got hilariously defensive about it. If he'd just said "sorry, the attribution was stripped when I found it" like a normal person, instead of acting like a petulant teenager, we'd never have heard about it.
Gumshoe
It's not a meme though. It's a joke article from a specific website. Not everything funny on the internet is a meme.