Dumbest rebranding in History! Twitter - X
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His big idea is basically "everyone gives me their money". What a genius. What a revolutionary.
Worked with Paypal
5 year old me idea if everyone in the world gave me one merica dolla!
@@jaysefgames1155 He had to be bought out of Paypal b/c of his stupidity, and as someone who lives outside of the US Paypal sucks!
He’s an egotistical misguided child not too far removed from Trump. He only cares about himself as his massive bonuses that exceed all other Tesla employee compensation combined prove. And he continually over promises and under delivers often to a huge extent. His slobbering fans just somehow magically dismiss all his lies and flaws just like Trump fans believe Trump is honest and innocent. It’s all going to catch up with Musk. For example Hyundai and Kia offer EV’s that overall beat similar Tesla models in every way for less money and are frequently reviewed as better vehicles. And AFAIK Musk’s ONLY profitable company is Tesla.
@@jaysefgames1155 And wanted to name it...."X"
The fact that Musk's prototype hyperloop had to get cut in half to make way for an actually useful form of transportation is absolutely hilarious!
Most op part of the vedio
A picture of poetic justice if there ever was one.
Yeah, I had to go look at the Google Map view, I couldn't spot where is had been at first, 'cos there's almost nothing left. Says everything, they've given up, Virgin Hyperloop got rid of half it staff (last I heard, last year) there are no working Hyperloops anywhere on the planet, and it's been over ten years. I would imagine those involved are hoping we'll forget they all got hyped up (pun intended) over vapour.
I like how remnants of hyperloop and a railway form letter X 😂
@@nanonymous9139yet it's the railway that makes the iconic sweeping parabola, not the makings of the rocketry company with the arc in its logo.
Twitter had some of the best branding period. The company became part of the language like Kleenex. Changing the name is a hilariously bad move with literally no potential benefit.
Benefit to whom? You?
Google is similar, you google things rather than search, unless you're already on a particular site. RUclips in a stronger way I suppose. When you refer to a channel it pretty much automatically means a RUclips channel, thus you don't even have to say RUclips. Kind of overrode the terminology of TV channels, not sure how many households even have cable anymore.
I agree, even though i never used Twitter, but it's become such a staple in daily life that even i acknowledge it as a "thing".
X is way too generic, and yeah, also more "X-rated" associated than just some blue bird.
What's a "Tweet" called now, an X?
"I X'ed" (instead of "I Tweeted.")
Although, for once "Can i X you a question?" would be grammatically correct, phonetically.
it has benefits.. now we can say "X GON GIVE TO YA!!!!"
@@saliman4874 to the company. Branding is a large part of any corporate identity-fueling public recognition that leads to engagement.
Completely trashing a highly recognized brand name-one that had become part of the public lexicon with a verb (tweeting/to tweet) and replacing it with something new destroys years of brand recognition.
Changing it to a common letter frequently associated with edgy 90’s culture and less savory websites is just astoundingly counterproductive. It actually makes it harder to find the site or app in search engines.
It's absolutely incredible the amount of comedic irony with the Hyperloop being cut in half to make way for a train. You simply couldn't write a better joke.
Thank God, can you imagine being stuck in one of those when one of his cars spontaneously combusts? Thought gives me chills.
@@secondchance6603but ev fires are more rare than that of gasoline cars, so it must be safer, right?....... stupidity comes natural to many people.
Yes and his rocket company and car company are a complete disaster too 🤡🤡🤡
@@DigitalNomadOnFIRE because he's not involved in it right now, busy destroying twitter.. or I should say x...... wow is that a stupid name
@@DigitalNomadOnFIREFunny how Elon got two things right and now everyone has to forget about every dumpsterfire he does 😂
His hyper loop being cut in half for a train rail is hilarious.
would make a great picture in the dictionary under the 'irony' entry.
The hyperloop made room for something that works
It's like poetry
Because the science wasn't there for the hyper loop, at least for the original concept that I saw.
@@yvonnem.langlois5197 He wanted to put Air Hockey tables along the bottom of a huge Vacuum tube. Push air into a Vacuum. How did that ever make sense in his head?
The more Musk stutters, the more you know he’s lying.
Say hi to Fonki Cheff.
If he's talking, he's stuttering
If he's stuttering, he's lying
Coincidence???🤔 looking into this
He’s a horrible speaker. Never mind stuttering. The guy seems to have no idea what he’s talking about on anything he talks about. Why people invest money in his BS is beyond me. Just listening to him present something sends so many red flags for me. I wouldn’t give him 5 cents.
Or simply listen to what he is actually saying and then use that gray matter in between your ears.
He’s not even stuttering, he’s making it up as he goes along. Most geniuses have figured out what they are doing before they do it.
He is the perfect case for understanding what Dunning-Krueger learned. My favorite line will always be “Noone knows more about manufacturing than me”! I know guys 80 years old who forgot more than he knows.
People who actually work in manufacturing are gona know more than this false information presentation giver.
I'll go even further, at this point even I know more than Elon does, because I said so! Even that is less absurd than his own claims.
Even Zuckerburg wasnt stupid enough to get rid of the Facebook name with Meta. I thought this "X" thing was a joke when it first happened.
An old Ego trip. X was his first
And still everyone calls Meta Facebook.
@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 isn't Meta just the parent company?
@@ShowerWithSocks And the parrent company is reffered to as Facebook.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Still has the stock code "FB", too. Same goes for Google. Technically now called Alphabet, but still going by the code "GOOG" or "GOOGL", depending on whether you're buying shares that can vote or not.
Here in Brazil we had one of those. His name is Eike Batista, founder of Grupo X: OGX (petroleum ), OSX (shipyard), MMX (mining), LLX (logistics) e MPX (energy). Former billionaire and now broke
Nice Xample.
@@johnps1670 Xactly what I was going to Xplain.
Too bad in America we don't let members of The Club lose that badly. Musk will be fine.
Is Eike Batista still in prison? And what happened to his sons?
Br there humm!! Cool!!
That railroad cutting through the hyperloop is the definition of Irony
It's so sweet!
That was just OMFG ironically hilarious! 😂
@@BorisEysbroekwhy? So he can delete it? 😅😂😂
@@Five_y_kay He could re-brand it FaceX
"Buying any other vehicle is like buying a horse" - but a horse ACTUALLY IS full self driving!
No it isn't, you still have to steer it
You can recycle their emissions so to speak and when the engine dies you can eat it.
@@vibaj16 But it will avoid obstacles and follow straight paths. You don't have to steer it all the time.
underrated comment
@@vibaj16 never been drunk on a horse?
That stitched up "Twitter" bird on the thumbnail is freaking AWESOME! I salute the (twisted) mind that created that!
He doesn't even sound like he believes his own lies anymore
If he did they would just be delusions instead
He sounded quite confident many years ago--a stark contrast to current times. Seems he caught his “aspergers" from his promiscuous lifestyle with facts. and fantasy.
and even younger (and... balder!?) Musk didn't sound like he bought his own bs
Yeah, he can’t even pretend to be sincere anymore.
Well put.
Elon Musk is demonstrating why Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne are fictional characters
I was in disbelief when I heard Musk changed the name of Twitter to X and abandoned the iconic blue bird logo. One of the best brands of all time and he changes it to black X. Great work
same. I thought they were using x as just a generic fill in the blank term. like x will be great, x will cure world hunger, we will have x number of things. it's so generic and plain and stupid. I had no idea it had anything to do with twitter or tweeting. he spent so much money on a thing, now watering it down to the point it is useless.
I love it because Twitter has been the most annoying website so good riddance
He crossed it out.
One of the best brands of all time?😂 Get out of your bubble. I bet half the population on earth doesn't even know Twitter. It's a very young brand only relevant to tech savvy young people.
@@miskatonic6210 US, Japan, Brazil. That's where 95% of TwatX's users live. Even within these 3 countries, the US barely gets 15% engagement.
The really ironic thing is that Robotaxis aren't fiction. They're currently in use in Shenzhen and Tokyo. They just aren't owned by Musk.
I'd rather ride a rickshaw
@@ooosteve You wanna do what to Rick Shaw???
Because if they were, they'd explode. 💥
GM and Alphabet have robotaxis in SF area. They have issues with them. So why does Tesla not have them there as well?
ride him...like a bitch !@@WhoAmEye_WhoAreEwe
Dude, I still laugh out loud everytime you show the part " I swear , it is not that hard".
I have a manager at work who says, "Nothing is hard. Everything can be easy." I swear he has to be watching musk or something. Impossible. Not said. Just hard.
The little jingle after he says that line triggers me. It's the sound of lies and failure lol
I just feel second-hand embarrassment
yeah, playing air hockey in a vacuum
It was funny the first 250 times. Like everything in this, the most repetitive video series ever produced by man.
Just when you think he can't get any dumber he goes and proves us wrong again. Truly a revolutionary.
Yet he still has more billions than us while we waste our time judging his actions. Who are the dumb ones again?
The Homer Simpson meme "He's about to do something stupid" fits him so well
@@alman5568shut up fan boy you know he got that money through methods unavailable to us, it's not about hustle it's about time and place, he was born in the right place at the right time. Looking up to billionaires is so stupid.
Lmao, hahah
@@alman5568 Musk simp Spotted 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
I've noticed family and friends of mine who once worshipped this "genius ", no longer mention his name.
Bingo.....So many lefties worshipped him because they automatically assumed he was a lefty also.
When I'd tell them he was actually 3/4 full of BS and a somewhat conman, swindler. They'd say I was stupid/didn't know what I was talking about & get mad that I dissed their idol- the real life Iron Man. 😂 Now that they know he's not a lefty & really is 3/4 full of BS. They can't stand him.
He tricked them into buying his overpriced over rated EV. Buy telling them lies like, they could soon convert it into a robo taxi. So it'd literally pay for itself then create a yearly robo taxi income for them. 😂 They even put up with the worst customer service imaginable.
They either realize he's a clown boy or they become cultists.
My dad still does... unfortunately. He sees all the twitter stuff as "weird that he's doing that, but whatever", and only hears good stuff/vague things about SpaceX, and my Dad loves space. So he hears stuff like "They'll update the software in Teslas the next day after taking an idea they saw on the internet, instead of waiting 5 months", and thinks "Someone's getting things done!", cause he's not that well informed, barely uses the internet, and hears about someone doing something, after years of "Here's this cool piece of tech! Now you'll never hear about it again."
Like... he has a shirt with the Ghandi quote: "The difference between what we do and are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems". He wants it to be true, and hears about someone doing something different that seems to be pushing forward, and barely hears anything otherwise cause he's not on the internet.
@@Ultimime Many lefties like Thunderfoot were major Elon fan boy cultists who loved Elon when they assumed he was a lefty. When they found out Elon wasn't a lefty it broke their spell. Many lefties bought his crap & made him rich. They got a one -two punch 👊 #1 realized their hero wasn't a lefty 👊 #2 realized their Tesla would never become a robo taxi that'll make them $50k and that Elon was full of BS.
Musk does a good job of getting people to talk about Musk. Trump is similar in this regard. They're media manipulators. And media is far from the only thing that they manipulate. And I think he had help from anti-Democratic regimes in purchasing Twitter. The fact that he's killing the bird icon (which he paid big money for) and the 'twitter' name just demonstrates that he wanted to kill this thing from the start. Once he umbrellas it into Space X or X Corp, he'll be able to offset taxes for ~infinity years for that company/conglomerate. That effectively makes taxpayers purchase Twitter so that Musk could destroy it.
The thought process behind buying a company whose only assets are the brand name, employees and user data, then firing most of the workforce and then rebranding it, is something I'd love to analyze.
No. False. Its not the brand name thats was worth it. Its the user base.
@@FiryaFYI It's the archives of private DMs that Musk can now read freely, and the blackmailing that can come from it. If Musk had bought it for legitimate reasons, killing the brand bird and name would have been stupid. But he bought it to kill it, with help from some very anti-Democratic governments help. Killing Twitter makes sense as a tax deduction. And the fact that he is naming it "X" probably indicates that he intends to use this unprofitable purchase as a tax nullifier for the remainder of time Space X and/or X Corp do business. And if he does that, he's EFFECTIVELY making the US Taxpayer pay for Twitter's demise.
@@FiryaFYI Twitter is an incredibly well known brand, it definitely made up a large portion of the value
yeah the twitter employees were more curse than boon, and I dont think trimming the fat here was a bad idea. The gold mine was indeed the userbase (though turned out a huge chunk of that is bot accounts), the name recognition (that overshadowed facebook as the name of the biggest social media) and the user data. Getting rid of the name is pure damage to the website, all for the sake of claiming the name of the site as Elon's own
The irony is that people will now probably refer to it as Twitter forever because X just sounds dumb.
Maybe but it will likely fail before long.
"I will aks/X you a question." finally became grammatically correct. The hood is proud.
But I do like the term "Xretion" for a Tweet.
X-genius thinking about his x-wife.
facebook is still facebook for the same reason.
It really is a great example of failing upwards; being fired for incompetency and reaping the benefits of that firing only to retroactively claim that the success was yours.
And what fails up, must fail down.
Texla next. Common Musk you know you want to do it.
@@jacksos101 Money doesn't usually fail down. That's for the plebe class without lobbying money.
@@lostinfrance9830 I'd prefer to see it become Xlax...so it sounds like Ex-Lax the constipation medication🤣
@@BernasLL it doesn't normally fail down. But then again, people don't normally burn $20 billion in a single transaction
I went between being delighted by your commentary, to recoiling with cringe whenever elon spoke. What a rollercoaster.
it's like watching mainstream news. once you realize how much they lie and twist things, you can never un-see it
That railway forcing hyperpoop to be butchered (wasnt being used anyway), is just the perfect irony. Im sure the symbolism made him furious.
He thinks he is going to turn twitter into the new paypal, basically. Except, he didnt have anything to do with Paypal last time around, and hes lied so much about that hes forgotten the truth himself...
And musk has shown himself to be so erratic that I would never trust anything he operates with my data or money.
Yup. He named the company X as well so he has clearly been obsessed with the name for decades now and it’s weird to say the least. He just got lucky he was around early in the early days of payment platform development, PayPal bough the company to squash competition but reality was that X company was an utter failure at doing what it claimed it could do.
the scariest part is that it works. This insanity he does works. Because there's people who are so mentally bankrupt they can fall for this repeatedly.
"he has money, he must have answers and genius ideas"
@@Keksweitwerfer There's a line in the song "If I Were a Rich Man" from the Movie "Fiddler On the Roof" (I know, really random, but my mom loved that movie when I was a kid). The guy is singing about what it would be like if he was rich and he said all the people of the town would come to him with questions and accept whatever he said in answer because "If you are rich, they think you really know."
@@bigtb1717
and then Gwen Stefani happened. I remember when I first heard her song, and I was like .... wait WHAT!? Fiddler on the roof? Why? XD
Money brings more money, the very least his career is secured by several governments forcing people to buy electrical cars in a softcore manner.
The past few years have shown how easy is to brainwash people
3:00 I’m convinced this guy has always just smoked a joint and is trying really hard not to laugh whenever he tells people these outlandish stories 😂😭
To say that you're the person who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive is craaaazy
He's the absolute epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
$44 billion to buy world's sewage system full of toxicity is one of the craziest deals in history
44 billion at 6% interest
ANd the worlds biggest soap box
After paying that 44 bill, hes STILL the richest man in world
@@jdevine42 No, he isn't. The wealth by which he is measured counts all assets, but no debts. Therefore, Having 44B in Tesla stock or 44B in Twitter stocks as assets doesn't change the wealth. The measurement is obviously flawed.
@@jdevine42Nope, that would be Bernard Arnault, a luxury goods magnate.
As long as Elon keeps making gamer moves like this, Thunderfoot will never run out of content😂😂😂😂
Thunderfoot needs no excuse to keep making the same video over and over.
Until Musk runs out of money. But then we will be entertained by watching the fall of Musk.
Seeing him bieng called the Thomas Edison or the Da Vinci of this generation makes me think of the people who actually put in the work everyday, and yet get mistreated, have their rights denied and are ultimately forgotten.
Well the Edison comparison is not to far from Elon at all!
@@gretchenbaker7435
Edison was a businessman who successfully marketed the product
@@multeyElon has done the same whether you like him or not.
I don't know why he would buy Twitter to fire most the staff, lose a lot of the user base, and change the name. He could have easily just build his own social media for way less
I think he bought Twitter on a whim. Twitter, despite being a houshold name and a bigtech, has always been losing money and everyone know this. Musk bought it for twice the price, and he tried to wrangle out of the deal. He was forced to do it, because he already sign the contract. He fired the staffs, and monetize the checkmark to reduce cost and increase revenue. That's it. When it did not work, he changed it into "X" cause why not? He already has SpaceX, a baby he named X AE A-12.
Because he's a total Karen
Impulsive decision guided by boredom. Billionaires have the same emotional fragility as other people, their irrationality just tends to have bigger consequences.
Perhaps his intent WAS to destroy it...and by that I mean be part of the system that seeks to destroy freedom of speech.
Though of course, one doesn't need a computer or smart phone to enjoy FoS conversations with others.
He had no intention to of buying Twitter, or creating his own social media platform. He fought as best he could to not be forced into buying it. He probably waved "due diligence" because he honestly thought he wouldn't have to go through with the purchase, so doing due diligence was a waste of time and attorney fees.
he's proven that the stories from Tesla and SpaceX where upper management would basically form a barrier around Elon to keep him from hearing things they knew he'd go stupid over and to keep actual productive people from having to listen to Elon are true.
the stark difference with Twitter is that few of the legacy staff felt loyalty to their new overload and that he's constantly x'ing his business stream of thought on the platform and setting off immediate, public backlash so there's no chance for anyone to shelter him or filter him.
He's been like that a while. He got pushed out of PayPal for similar reasons. But he still had enough stock to get rich when the value exploded even after leaving the company.
my theory is they didn't have enough time to form a strike team to keep him occupied at twitter
@@Vincent_Beers Yet his fans believe Musk single-handedly invented Paypal The actual truth is that he nearly tanked it due to his arrogant stupidity.
I wonder if he still wanders through the Tesla plant once a week to fire people at random, which caused people to be running for the bathrooms and hiding in darkened offices when he'd come around. What a horrible place to work. I'd only get a job there for the line-item on my resume and then I'd be moving along to a more stable job. This guy is a nutcase.
> stark difference
lololo
Elon took an established brand so synonymous with social media that it's become the verb for the entire industry, and changed it to a generic X that sounds more like a p0rn site than anything else. This is like if Hoover decided to change their brand to Y and expected people to stop saying 'hoovering the floor' and say 'Y'ing the floor.'
You are entirely correct of course, it is an appalling idea. Hoover, though, apparently hate the fact that they are the generic brand for vacuum cleaners. I think it’s more that if you were thinking of buying a new Hoover you might not think about an *actual* Hoover, so generic has the word become.
Why not name it XXX consequently?
@@ProfessorPescayou're getting vacuum and hoover mixed up
Hoovering sounds fkn stupid. H8rs gonna h8
Makes me happy. He's killing off one of the worst websites on the platform. A breeding ground for idiots and internet warriors. I say good fucking riddance. This is a great change.
I’m loving watching his fanboys cope with all his recent failures 🎉
Even they know rebranding twitter was a dumb idea. But they have to suck him off anyway, because that's the bed they've chosen to make for themselves.
To be fair, his failures have always been a part of his ethos.
He just became the worlds richest man in the world again... such fail.
Hows your McDonalds job going mate?
Stop sucking off wealthy con artists. It's weird. 🤣
@@crocodile2006
@@crocodile2006Richest man on paper. Paper, which ironically he lacks because he is CASH POOR.
It's 38 seconds in and I'm already laughing harder than I do in any average Thunderf00t video. That was a natural 20 on delivery and scripting there, Phil. Have a like.
I've been waiting. As soon as I saw the twitter rebranding, I knew Phil was on the otherside of the world laughing and making a new video.
Yea but musk looks at you and laughs at your poorarse whilst he eats gold plated steaks and $10,000 bottles of champagne. How do you feel.
@@Vile_old_Bastard_3545well i don't know what that guy above feels like but you seem pretty butthurt that the billionaire you love simping for so much is turning out to be a huge clown.
@@Vile_old_Bastard_3545 Zuck does the same thing, how do you feel about that?
@SawneyBean666 lol. You really believe that don't you? Cultists never cease to amaze me.
@@joesnow3984 truth always hurts 😆
'Raising $50 million is the matter of making a series of phone calls and the money is there'
He has dad on speed dial.
Thank you for your service Mr. Thunderf00t. Never doubted you for a second
I can imagine Rodney Dangerfield saying this (while rolling his eyes).
You are a great service to the community. Thank you for your dedication, commitment, and integrity.
"Quasi-infinite demand for robo-taxis." His grasp on economics makes it pretty clear how well his 50% of world finance system would go.
Emphasis on the "quasi"
Credit where it's due. There are no one in his robo-taxis. Admittedly because they don't exist, but still...
if you are rich and have assets, at some point of time if you are infinitely stupid you will still be able to earn more and more because you have assets and you cannot lose after some thresholds (billions usd)
Quasi-infinite ego…
(just kidding, it's actually infinite)
@@zawarudo1041 Musk is losing an insane amount
If Musk hadn't won the paypal lottery, we would have never had to deal with him all these decades after...
His daddy's money helped him buy his way into PayPal, just like everything else he used his money to muscle his way in.
If PayPal didn't work out he would have kept going until he found relevancy elsewhere.
His dad owning an emerald mine in Zambia couldn't have hurt his chances....
@@AvidiaNirvana blood emeralds at that.
@@ravenouself4181Hell just about as bad as modern European business in Africa.
@@stryletz yeah he said it himself in this video that getting 50 million was just a matter of one phone call haha I wonder who did he call...
So who got the $44 billion?
“Institutional investors, which held more than two-thirds of Twitter's stock, saw the biggest windfalls. Vanguard Group was the company's largest shareholder, with a 10.3% stake, giving that investment advisor a payout of roughly $4.5 billion. BlackRock pocketed roughly $2.8 billion for its 52 million-plus shares.”
The funny thing is that horses are actually self-driving when you think about it.
The age of the Divine Right of Billionaires is horrible 💀
You have to have the smugest "I told you so" smile watching this unfold over the years because you were there at the start calling him out before 90% realized what he is actually like.
pretty sad its more like 20-25%...the rest till today praise Musk for everything he owns because they thinks he invented every single thing what his companies and former companies produced.
@@UngtartogLOL cope much? Elon is a joke 😂😂😂
@@Ungtartog Nothing says "loser" more than being a cynic. You can sense their pleasure of watching people fail, just to make them feel better of their own failures. Thunderfoot is in the top of the cynic totem pole.
@@Ungtartog And you likely won't because everyone has a certain agenda to push until certain news breaks out about a certain individual. Before long, they will be singing the same tune.
@@samot1808 This is exactly why Thunderf00t gets the last laugh, because he's been right all this time. People say stuff like "oh he's a cynic, he's a loser" and then Elon does some stupid sht, then people start looking stupid themselves as they realize Elon is an business savvy imbecile.
If you really think Musk is worth the carbon he exahles when he promises sht like full self driving, or living on Mars, take a look in the mirror buddy. Who's the real loser here?
I like to imagine he has a pair of handlers who are seeing just how far he can let their charge go before losing their jobs. They're competing to see just how far it can go and they keep one upping each other.
Elon says he is going to do it and then he never does. The hyperloop was a pipe dream.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Oooh, this is a really good quote.
Doesn't matter. Everything Elon has ever said that might damage him in a court of law was clearly a deep fake.
I am going to mail that one to extinction rebellion and just stop oil
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts."
He never wanted to save humanity. It's just the line he used to get enough popularity from idiots to make a boatload of money
He changed the ONE THING he paid billions for, the brand recognition! Twitter/Tweets/Tweeting had become a part of mainstream culture and our vocabulary. Few other brands besides Google had that much presence. That's where the value was. Now it's just another bland social media app. Bravo.
He should've just bought a bank, then bought twitter. He could have had twitter turned into an applet within the banking app which is basically the initial stages of what became chinese wechat. This will probably go down in the annals of history as one of the dumbest business acquisition deals in all of history.
@@WhatWillYouFindYeah, but that would imply it was an actual business move and not just a shitpost that he was forced to own up to
@@WhatWillYouFindYeah, he can’t even do rich greedy power-hungry CEO stuff right. 🤦🏻♂️
False. The brand means nothing.
He paid for the people who use the app.
He has more followers on x, more then other "better branded" apps.
The people who use the app worth more then the brand.
platform and users has no value? LOL you're just a hater.
The blinding strobing light from the X logo on the appartments across the road 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and the memes
Anyone else thinking of Richard Dreyfus’ sunburn of half his face in Close encounters …..? 😂😂😂
That thumbnail is gruesome but summarizes the situation so well
The irony, a Horse is already fully autonomous capable.
Don't give Musk any ideas, he'll rebrand it a "XORSE" and claim he invented the fully autonomous quadraped.
Brilliant.
@@trainingtheworld5093 That runs on solar...kinda, I mean grass runs on solar and horse runs on grass.
@@pitsahat2Technically fossil fuels are also stored (for a long time) solar energy.
@@trainingtheworld5093you mean the Hyperclop?
The Thunderf00t dilemma:
Do I post now?
Or
Do I wait a week to see if Poor L'il Elon does something even dumber?
LMAO
He just did an hour before the video went up he made a new motto.
No need to wait a week, that man is a constant stream of idiocy
Bender from Fututama: "The 'x' makes it sound cool" 😂
20:20 a horse has better self driving than his car ever will 🤣🤣🤣
The clown sound effects are the real MVP here
I hear those clown sound effects in most of Thunderfoot's videos.
@@BOT_0x76DE45AB
Odd, I don’t.
Way too loud......
@@BOT_0x76DE45ABElon fanny boy much?
What sound effects?
The most successful snake-oil salesman in history. Looking forward to that genuine, bonafide, electrified, six-car HyperLoop!
Hyper!!! (doh!)
Shouldnt there be some kind of protection for companies... against a CEO that acts like this?
Trump is right up there with him.
He only did well when someone else was doing the talking, and the deciding, and the running.
Lawsuits by investors and also the board of directors has some say.@@Iverath
"Some big number" Wow, what a brain genius. 🧠🧠
Dude has failed his way upwards and back to his original position. He’s like a properly thrown boomerang
26:22 Wow, thanks for clarifying that. I wasn't aware of that at all. Musk is always portrayed in the "official narrative" as the tech genius who founded and helped build PayPal. The fact that his paltry competitor business was simply bought out early on by the PayPal company and he thus got shares in the eBay deal, but otherwise did nothing, is simply insane. The Wiki entry is also just too awesome that he argued with the others about Linux and preferred to use Microsoft. So much for our little tech genius.
Wait he seriously wanted to use Windows over Linux as a dev... instant red flag
He disn't start Tesla either.
Why everyone doesn't know this is astounding. He is just a rich kid with stupid ideas, that was well connected. He is a con man plain and simple.
he;s not a genius of any kind.
he's just rapacious.
But the muskrats still worship him.
Musk buying Twitter is literal killing two birds with one stone.
A $44B stone 😂
@@curtisyue182 A lot more when you consider the lost market cap caused by his selloff to raise that $44B.
with one stoner
You meant while stoned?
Two birds with one x
I keep saying that Musk's rebranding of one of the most universally recognized brands on the planet will go down as the stupidest decision in branding history until Disney beats it by replacing Mickey Mouse with anthropomorphic syphilis and changing their name to a poop emoji.
I got into an argument with my brother in a pub about this guy recently. He couldn't debunk the weirdo part of the argument.
He can make major myopic decisions without any thinking. This is a real talent.
And it's hilarious watching this sh|tshow from the outside.
@@peteswafflemeyer5620 I frequently ask myself how does his brain mis-wiring allow him to basically function as a human?
@@josephnavin4451 He could just sit back and do nothing for the rest of his life, enjoying every thing on earth because he simply too rich to go broke even by doing absolutely nothing.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Indulgent, wanton, profligate stupidity seems to be a luxury he can afford...for now.
X is fitting seeing how the X represents the dead face used commonly in games and cartoons/memes.
He should rename twitter headquarters "the X box".
my bro thought I had a porn app on my phone
@@lawrencelopez9839except that would actually be enjoyable to use
18:02
*Voice:* ...that age is just a number.
*Me:* Yeah... and a prison cell is just a room.
Q:How do you know he’s lying?
A: He’s awake…
Imagine what 44bn could have done for the country. For the world. I guess eliminating twitter was a good for the world, but it could have done so much better.
That much money could have actually funded some of Musk's space ambitions. It wasn't all his money though - it's a leveraged buyout, Musk borrowed a big chunk of the money from various banks. Including, strangely enough, the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund. The Saudi government is now the second largest holder of Twitter stock. Twitter itsself holds the debt used to buy it (because rich person money doesn't work the same as it does for us mortals), and is still paying the very substantial interest payments.
Musk has proven capitalism is a farce. he's doing some very hefty lifting.
Adam Smith, Marx, then Musk. Hope, critique, then trainwreck. 😄
@Keksweitwerfer Hon the money is gone. Old Twitter owners are not going to just donate what they got out of Elon's moronically high offer, they're going to keep it like all rich people do.
Meanwhile what he paid (offered to pay) was double what it was actually worth at the time. So that's 20 B gone poof his creditors can never get back. And meanwhile again he has run it into the ground so he will never even make half (20 B) back by selling it.
44 Billion is more than NASA's entire budget. It's more than four times what we're sending to Ukraine to fight actual invading sh*theads who are a threat to democracy everywhere.
It's more than we spend on feeding food insecure children in our own country. You know actual problems, not "muh free speech!"
There are a LOT of people and causes that could've helped. But maybe it's more important to make sure Nazis have a place to post Hitler memes.
On the other hand, it will be a never-ending cup of tea to see the cesspool that Twitter, I'm sorry "X", has devolved into slowly fade into obscurity and eventual bankruptcy. So there's that.
Anyone who was holding twitter shares received $54.20 per share. And they were trading around $30. That's pretty good
@@Keksweitwerfer You make a very good point. Shareholders in Twitter made good profit, a lot of which can actually trickle down into the larger economy. New houses, cars, pools, heck even hookers and blow! Everybody wins! Except Musk, of course.
It must feel so good to have been so right about Elon Musk for so long. Pure, undiluted vindication.
This ^^^
... you like celebrating too early apparently since he is still worth more billions than any other dude... the fall is in the future not in the past... don't jinx it. (I'll blame you personally if it doesn't happen ;)
Seasoned with salty tears
@@thulyblu5486wait until Tesla gets sued for lying about its cars' range and for cancellation of tens of thousands of service appointments.
I've known what he was for years since the early days of Tesla
His fall hasn't happened yet
16 years later and nothing has changed that much and there's something very comforting about that
That clown horn was killing me haha! I had to pause a few times to laugh
It all makes sense now 😮
The stock price? Got x'ed
The brand recognition? Got x'ed
😂😂
One remarkable musk achievement has to be, his miraculous reverse balding
He paid a large sum for hair implants.
@@drill_fiend1097 thanks captain obvious
He has 1 skill,getting other people to play for him
He would pay anything to feed his narcissism.
This is a big moment for all of us. Because we knew that you were right and you get to finally say it. Cheers to you Thunderf00t!
That was so cringe though. As cringe as Musk himself.
It's hardly a great achievement to be right about the bleedingly obvious, even if it requires 700 slightly different versions of the same video to say so.
I agree with the other guy. It was obvious.
@@aarondavis8943 why do you even clicked on the video if you knew it was a cringe fest? Didn’t watching 700 other Thunderf00t videos on the same topic teach you anything?
Ummm.... doesn't thunderf00t say that in every video?
@@aarondavis8943 Eh ... Don't begrudge the man what makes him money ... Especially given that he clearly enjoys it
He's obsessed with the letter X he called his kid X something.
I love this entire story. He gets swindled by a team of actual lawyers to make him do whatever he got himself legally obligated to do, gets played like a fiddle and now his ego can't handle being outsmarted by people who are actually good at their jobs instead of lying about it like he does.
It makes me happy.
I haven't watched this, yet. If Phil mentioned this in the video, I apologize.
Have you seen the news? Ars Technica headline:
*Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken*
According to Reuters, *Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints* ↴
"The directive to present the optimistic range estimates came from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, this person said.
'Elon wanted to show good range numbers when fully charged,' the person said, adding: 'When you buy a car off the lot seeing 350-mile, 400-mile range, it makes you feel good.'”
Mmm... my mouth is already watering - for Phil's _delicious_ dish - best served _cold!_ ;-)
He doesn't realize that if he would have only focused on SpaceX and its practical applications (so without the mars rubbish etc) and stayed a little bit enigmatic, he would have never become the world "richest" man (well, technically the world largest privately held financial bubble), probably a lot more people would actually think he is cool AF. Or at least fewer would think he is in the 0.0001% lamest and most embarrassing people to walk the planet....
He could even do the mars rubbish, if he were just a bit more realistic about it. SpaceX has government contracts. He could work with that to lobby for more ambitious but still achievable missions, like returning to the moon and establishing a semi-permanent base in which scientists could live comfortably for a few weeks to do in-depth scientific work and exploration. That's achievable. It's within the realm of political feasibility, where congress might be willing to commit a couple of billion over the course of a decade. But it just doesn't have the Flash Gordon appeal of colonising mars.
Same thing goes with Tesla; despite the criticism about self-driving cars, if they would just focus on making the best EVs they would have a great product.
Space x just makes expensive fireworks
Except SpaceX doesn't exist without the incredibly dubious ponzi scheme shell game he's playing between his various companies. SpaceX is financially in the toilet right now and the flush is expected to continue for several years if not right until it goes bankrupt. His only potential saving grace will be some new hype startup he can come up with to draw in more investor money, more tax breaks, more bailouts, etc. But the music has been playing far too long for Musky and when it stops there won't be any more chairs for him to sit on.
Before he got addicted to twitter and then later bought it, you could probably have accurately described him as the worlds most liked billionaire. He went from that, to now people rooting for Mark Zuckerberg to kick his ass. It's honestly impressive how thoroughly he destroyed his reputation in such a short period of time and I don't think I could have done it if I was him even if I tried.
The robotaxi quote is one of my favorite Elon lies. Under the current Wallstreet rules and regulation what he proposed is basically corporate malfeasance. To manufacturing a product capable of generating 100% roi rather than holding those products and taking that roi for the corperation is basically negligence. So if he wasn't lying, he'd be sued into oblivion by his shareholders, lol.
Imagine making a robotaxi for $22,000, selling it for $30,000 to get $8,000 profit instead of running it for ~3 months to make the same profit
"Its financially insane to buy anything but a tesla" used to be my favorite but now its "Space x, Tesla are philanthropy." Does a great job showing his narcissistic personality.
@moshunit96 that's a good one, too.
He should start selling dick pills
It's the people who clap when he's talking nonsense. I'm so glad it's catching up with him.
It’s pretty telling that the Twitter board was so enthusiastic to sell at that price 😂
He was obsessed with the letter "x" like he was born with it!
Then he made sure his son was born with it.😂
Does the letter X by itself hold some sort of meaning? You are right he is obsessed with it i worked for him before paypal bought us out and X was his entire thing.
Man it's been fun watching you roast him for years.
Would you watch them do a porn together?
It has
@@kkent4174 What about the idea of them doing an adult videotape together though? A lot of dude-bro's would watch that. I know that I would pound off hard to that. What about yourself boy? How hard would you pound off to Elon blasting Phil's toilet ring out?
@JackSmith-mk1ru Is that some kind of adult videotape sharing app or something? I'm not hip on the new apps out there dawg.
@JackSmith-mk1ru the perfect 24hr lock down system it is controls everything looolz that’s actually not awesome for us but for the government it is
Congratulations on the million subscribers I didn't even notice that good job man! Keep up the good work.
One of the huge overlooked problems with this vaporware salesman is not only how he scams the common man but also lawmakers in allowing these "self-driving" death machines to test their non-functioning software and hardware on the streets despite the rising death toll
High corpo Managers, current strong brand recognition ones, want to immitate him to the teeth. Automotive is an old technology.
Turns out, only greedy people keep telling everyone for no reason that they 'don't care about money'. Every single person I've heard saying that was actually OBSESSED by money (and power). Hearing someone say this as a kind of mantra is definitely a red flag.
You are so right! Usually the ones who don't care for money don't need to say it and those who says it, cares about money and power. It's the same as "I'm a nice guy" thing. The real nice guys don't have to say it, but the one's who say it, aren't nice guys.
You're getting confused between religious cults, which are like that but say they aren't, and Musk, who says he isn't like that. Also Bankman Fried who said he wasn't like that.
Facts
@@SloverOfTeuth Let's not forget the boss or company owner who tells us this, just to trick us into accepting an underpaid position (and never ask for a raise)...
Yeah, one does not become a *billionaire* by being altruistic and not caring about money.
If elon hates the amount of regulations for cars... he's in for a shock for finance.
Does Musk even know that KYC is a thing? I don't want to be giving my social security number to a social media site.
@@phillyphakename1255 But you happily give it to banks rofl.
@@snex000Uhhh, wtf?
@@randomname4726 Do you magically think banks protect your info more than social media companies? Do you magically think banks NEED your social security number for any legitimate purpose? And no, warrantless spying on you is not a legitimate purpose.
You know he actually made his initial wealth in the financial sector right?
when Tucker can't help himself but to laugh in your face.... XD
Elon: “I’m so smart Why hasn’t figure this out yet”
Definition of Dunning-Krueger
He really is the Thomas Edison of our times. By that I mean he takes credit for other people's ideas.
Yes maybe he is. He did not invent the electric car, but his vision made a very smal company (Tesla) into one of the biggest electric car builders, just like Edison did not event electric light, but made the light bulb into a thing everybody knew and was using for a long time.
Indeed Elon did not invented the rocket, not even the (partly) reusable rocket, but he did make space travel a lot cheaper with his reusable rockets where Nasa and Roscosmos failed with their Space Shuttle and Buran!
What Both Edison and Elon did was making a marketing failure (electric light and electric cars) into a success!
And for that, what did mr. thunderf00t do? Does he inspire people to give their best? Is he giving us the best? He might be a smart person, but he knows not that much about economics and he does not know a lot about how important it is for humanity to get less polution, thanks to electric cars, solar energy, etc. etc. But hey, you can't know everything, you can't be always right.
But it is strange he is aiming his arrows at Elon only and forget the others, like mr. Bezos (Amazon, blue Origin)
@@flatearth3114 We all know all bilionares are shit human beings. Elon just happends to be the one that just dosent keep his mouth shut and its always funny seeing him fail 😂
@@flatearth3114Your username says it all. Lol
@@flatearth3114 But what did he really do at Tesla or SpaceX, aside from giving them publicity? He's a one-man PR firm, but hard to credit him for anything else.
@@technoman9000 What he did? Well at first Elon has something mr. TF doesn't have: He has VISION. Unlike other car manufacturers he understood that electric cars are needed for a better future. He understood that it was better for Tesla to make an electric car that was exciting, not a dull one, in that way he made electric cars accepted by the masses and it made other brands to start making electric cars too. He envisioned that making as much as possible parts for the car themself and so turned the small Tesla that he took over into the large company it is today!
What he did for SpaceX? He has the vision that he wants to go to Mars, he wants to make the human race multi planetary. He understands that he needs large rockets that makes spaceflight less expensive. He envisioned that the only way to go are reussabel rockets, So he inspires a large group of young technicians to work on that.Elon has a different approach when it comes to developing rockets. He uses a "hardware rich" approach. that means he makes a lot of rockets in a short time. Learn from the production of those rockets to make them better and cheaper. He accepts failures when you learn from them, when you innovate. By following this route his team created the Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket family that made spaceflight a lot cheaper, thanks to the re-usability of the first stage.
It took some spectacular explosions, but now it is working every time when they want to land the rocket, they can land it!
What did Elon did to make it happen? The most important things he did was having the vision and the money.
I think the reason TF is aiming all his arrows on Elon because Elon is successful. Elon had success with PayPal, he has succes with Tesla, he has success with SpaceX. TF, amnd many of his dedicated followers are very jealous and so, instead of looking at Jeff Bezos and hs failing Blue Origin, who started at the same time as Elon, but doesn't have one single rocket in orbit, and both his rockets and engines are far behind their expected delivery date. Ask ULA what they think of the delay after delay!
Or why isn't he looking at Boeing and their Starliner? Again far behind SpaceX, they got more money to deliver their spaceship, but not one crewed launch. It costed the taxpayers a lot of money for no results!
Jealousy is a bad thing!
You guys call him DUMB, I call him GENIUS. He is destroying that toxic social media and showing his true self to the general public all at once.
So few are paying attention to the big picture of Musk. He is sufficiently toxic that he can fatally poison a toxic social platform. Impressive toxicity.
Fuck! Yes, social media is toxic. The new Elon Musk social media is way worse! Like, it's not even comparable. It's like what you would put into a dictionary for what toxic social media means! And so fuck him for calling this free speech ... it's the exact opposite. It's his free "his speech", not everyone elses free speech!
He is the hero we deserve, saving our souls of scrolling trolls with short phrases and memes, sending them all to hell
@@HiberNAT I think you are writing lyrics!
Agree cant wait to see the worldside hyperloop. Self driving cars, cyber truck. TBH surprised he didnt invest in solar roads at this point.
He sacked the people whe disagree with him and now we see how shallow, insecure and out of touch he really is. A manchild stuck in the late 90s.
Xcrement, formerly known as Twitter.
Elroy Mush is the Stockton Rush of social media... ✖️🐦
I'll just never, ever get tired of watching Thunderf00t dunk on Musk. Like spending a stormy day sat inside watching re-runs of The Office, it's like comfort food for the soul.
salts for stomach could help you and thunderf00t
@@brunobastos5533you could share some of your salt since as a musk simp you should have lots of it right now
@@rhogal8310I keep forgetting that there are unironically Musky fans in the world, so good.
Ill never get tired of people trying to dunk on musk, pointing and laughing, while the dude spends money and wipes his ass with it like its going out of style. Meanwhile, here those "dunkers" are complaining on social media *to grasp at a few pennies from veiwers)... Social media he has proven... that he could just buy. Outright. #golfclap
@@Hk7762Tube says the Nickle back fan...ROFLCOPTER...
Credit where it's due, Tfoot was one of the first prominent 'tubers to call out Musk on his BS back when the Hyperloop was still being pitched as a completely new mode of transit.
"Are we gonna have to cut that?" You can really trust social media journalists!
Pretty sure his bonus was based on insane growth bet from 10 years ago. He won the bet fair and square
They dont care about that.