Elon Musk to advertisers boycotting X: "Go f**k yourself"

He knows they will be back. They're only pausing buys.

Big companies all claimed they wouldn't donate to J6 insurrectionists... that lasted about three months before the bribes started again.

I have been boycotting Rolls Royce and Lear Jets for years and I thought I was just poor.

I’m blackmailing the meat industry

Quit blackmailing me by not buying my pristine pubes.

With one notable exception: report, inform and spread news about Swedish metalworker union strike against Tesla.

While I agree with the sentiment, he's only in deep shit right now because people talked about his antisemitic remarks. I think it's good to continue reporting on his idiotic vitriol as much as possible, because it's actively hurting him.

Too bad badassery… doesn’t pay the bills, eh?

Man haven't seen this one in a MINUTE. Good choice my dude.

"What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail."

I, too, prefer making other people the scapegoat to avoid letting myself feel any personal responsibility over my actions.

He wants Twitter dead, he never wanted the company and he's stuck with it and is basically doing the most above board sabotage of the company he can get away with.

"I WILL WATCH THAT DOCUMENTARY AND LAUGH EVERY TIME I SEE YOU GETTING SADDER AND SADDER AT YOUR FAILING BUSINESS WHICH IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT MR MUSK, YOU SMELLY CARROT OF A MAN"

Is how I'd respond to that.

What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]

Sounds fucking good to me. Keep it up, non-advertisers.

Wasn't he recently visiting israeli kibuts settlers and learning about the hamas attack just after the wave of press about antisemitism on X? He's fragile.

Found it: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-israel-aviation-tracker-says-2023-11-27/

and I will buy the crap out of those products that were the downfall of Twitter X

The word he's looking for is "thank." As in I'd like to thank the brands not advertising on Twitter. Not just the ones that withdrew their current ad campaigns, but also and especially the brands that never advertised there. I'm glad he's documenting them because I can't be arsed to keep a list.

This statement is the strongest evidence I've seen so far that he actually doesn't know what he's doing. Anyone who was self-aware, anyone who didn't live in a double-hulled iron-clad bubble would certainly know that we are out here laughing at and blaming him. Not the brands.

If this isn't a sincere proof of his ignorance, then who is this statement even for? The brands don't believe this, and wouldn't care if they did. The public no longer has any horse in this race. He's talking to himself with this statement, and that's why it's clear that he truly has no idea what he's doing.

Lol. Lmao even

Oh, but he does want it. At the same time he’s whining about how they’ll “kill X” and threatening to document it and tell the world what a victim he is.

That's the sort of thing I've been saying for years back when he first became involved with Tesla and SpaceX and everybody was fellating him for being such a "visionary" or whatever. I'd point out that what he was doing was nothing more than what any 12-year-old nerdy kid with a Popular Science subscription and a billion dollars would do, and would get downvoted to Hell for it.

Maybe not.... If people still hang out there, we might not want them.

I live in Ireland and for a very long time, I received so few ads I could simply block them away or tolerate them. Then one day, for no apparent reason, my feed was lousy with ads. Not relevant ads, or even generalised ads that anyone in Ireland might see - no, they were Chinese regional development ads, ads in Turkish, ads for various NGOs in Africa. It was absolute meaningless dreck. Were Twitter putting these in my feed as a bug, or to boost impressions of this junk to skim some pennies? I have no idea.

But I uninstalled the app. When I use twitter I launch it through Firefox mobile and uBlock origin and all the ads are stripped out. I don't know if the feed issue I suffered was fixed or is still there. I don't care any more. The way I look at it is, is Twitter is the predominant social media out there but there are many others. I'll leech off the service and if Elon burns his platform to the ground, then there is always somewhere else. He makes out that the world will rise up against advertisers but the reality is Threads or Bluesky will takeover and that will be that.

Godspeed, boycotters. Godspeed.

I'm rooting for him. I think he can take a lot more dick punches. Keep it up, Elon. You can win! Or whatever the fuck he's trying to do.

That's basically where I am with Musk, honestly.

I’m not quite there yet, still amusing as hell.

Artists and porn artists.

Bluesky hasn't got enough of them yet, mastodon apps aren't quite on that level yet.

Also overseas users. Lots of Japanese developers are sticking with it for now, until they have to go back to mixi or some shit.

I don't. Though I do follow a couple feeds for important things like the local NWS office. As soon as they post regularly elsewhere that can include notifications of new posts, I'll happily drop them and Xitter.

There's a theory that wealth masks a lot of mental health issues behind the eccentric billionaire persona, and it definitely shows with him.

Exactly, his “graveyards are full of my enemies” batshit rant reminded me exactly of “strafing runs in my underwear”. Dude’s fucking gakked to the gills or whatever’s stupider and worse than coke.

Yaccarino presumably huffs Andrew Tate farts just like he does, why else would she be there?

And yes the Charlie Sheen thing is a very apt comparison. Both whacked out sex addicts.

There's a reason for that.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-ketamine

What a ridiculous thing to for Musk to say. He clearly can’t handle being wrong or to blame. These companies are not under any obligation to advertise and support him or his business. His job is supposed to be to provide a platform where they want their ads to be seen, and failing do that, he’s acting like a victim instead.

you act like his intent wasnt to kill twitter with a legal scapegoat.

hes never cared about making money on twitter, not a dime. why anyone is talking about proftis or losses.. income at all... is beyond me.

If you’re asking, it’s your turn.

It looks like he’s on something.

He's been looking like that for a long while.

Pretty expensive, ineffective way to go about it.

Lazy journalism maybe. Ooh a tweet let me barf out three paragraphs about it all done journalism’s fun!

Cuz that’s how you get herpes?

Since many. many people still call it twitter, he is still killing the brand name. Google tried to rebrand as alphabet and FB as Meta but everyone still knows them as goofle and fb.

If/When the business folds I feel the office furniture will be worth more than the Twitter brand.

Twitter's always been a non-profit (-making) business

Is that really a surprise?

The article and video is a steak to the fediverse's hungry dog.

This is just more edgelord shit man. They have already stopped advertising.

Talking about his "graveyard of enemies" and saying a variant of "fuck you, i dont want the money you wont give me anyway" is pretty sad, honestly.

This implies he is eating it and turning it to shit before flushing it down the toilet, and not simply going straight to the toilet.