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

Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.

What he's saying: "If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself." Musk said. "Don't advertise."

arc , (edited )

Musk acted stranger in that interview than even his default setting. It looks like he’s on something. If I were a shareholder in one of his companies I’d be wondering if he’s about to have to check into rehab and/or the funny farm.

Anyway regarding his comments, telling the companies that are the lifeblood of Twitter to go f themselves is very brave. In the British understated sense meaning of “very brave”, i.e. suicidally dumb.

Damage ,

It looks like he’s on something.

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

Stern ,
@Stern@lemmy.world avatar

tfw you no longer need adblock on twitter because no one will advertise there

elons a genius /s

arc ,

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.

jose1324 ,

Just stop using it

AngryCommieKender ,

Make a Mastodon account, and migrate your X account to Mastodon. Apparently you can set them up to sync with each other, but I’m not sure how, as I never had a Twitter.

Vant ,

“What this advertising boycott is going to do is it’s going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail,” Musk said.

Ohhh, is he threatening twitter files 2.0? The nuffinburger that no effect on anything? I can just see it now: “Yeah, this guys a huge racist, let’s stop advertising. It’s hurting our business”. Good luck with that, dumbo. What are you going to document? The cancelled checks? This fucking idiot.

arc ,

Seems like a typical narcissistic flex - I’m not at fault for doing the terrible thing, you’re at fault for not supporting me do the terrible thing and I shall have my revenge.

Paddzr ,

Looking for a scape goat.

Snapz ,

Little divorced boy with a pocket full of bloody emeralds.

aarRJaay ,
@aarRJaay@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not the behaviour of a adult, that’s also not the behaviour of someone in charge of a company I want to give any of my time to and certainly not the behaviour of someone who should be in charge of this Internet bank thing he wants X to become.

Rooskie91 ,

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

middlemanSI ,

You can make it Elon, after all, you are one of them geniuses…

Socsa ,

I’m sure that will help

if_only ,

Someone should run an ad for mastodon there.

Paddzr ,

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

Nonameuser678 ,
@Nonameuser678@aussie.zone avatar

How you gonna make money though Elon? Or is Twitter suddenly a non profit business.

crashfrog ,

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

Kase ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3a6db13a-1123-4282-8992-63e316e0a535.jpeg

assassin_aragorn ,

Hey who’s turn was it to bring the popcorn?

hansl ,

If you’re asking, it’s your turn.

mateomaui ,

Finally.

ElcaineVolta ,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.social avatar

the business genius, everyone!

PrincessLeiasCat ,

“I have no problem being hated,” Musk said, emphasizing that the trip was planned before his controversial post on X.

Grimes still doesn’t want you back, 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.”

Spoken exactly like the person who doesn’t care if they’re hated or not. “I WILL DOCUMENT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS IN GREAT DETAIL!!”

finkrat ,

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.

grue ,

…funded by Saudis, who also want Twitter dead so it can’t be used to organize Arab Spring 2.0.

crashfrog ,

I don’t really follow this. If he actually doesn’t want Twitter to be a thing, there’s a button in the data center that turns off all the servers. He can just push that. There’s no law against it and he’s the majority shareholder - what’s he going to do, sue himself?

Nollij ,

To advance his political agenda, it needs to look like an accident. Or incompetence.

I’m not convinced that’s what he’s actually doing, but I do acknowledge that it’s a pretty strong case. But as the old adage goes, never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

assassin_aragorn ,

Yeah I have my doubts that it’s a purposeful plan. He’d have to know people would see him as a laughingstock, and his ego couldn’t handle that.

Wodge ,
@Wodge@lemmy.world avatar

“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.

andrew_bidlaw ,

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: reuters.com/…/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-isra…

pivot_root ,

“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.

Aceticon ,

It’s like a rapist who ends up in jail and blames the victim with the rationale that “she was asking for it”.

aarRJaay ,
@aarRJaay@lemmy.world avatar

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

Blackmist ,

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

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

GrammatonCleric ,
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

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Fraylor ,

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

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