I don't think Elon Musk has even watched the movies he's referencing, he's just regurgitating pop culture he's aware of, just like how he's paying someone to play games for him. Art, culture, media, it's all just a prop for him. - ThreadSky

caseyexplosion.bsky.social • 14 days ago

I don't think Elon Musk has even watched the movies he's referencing, he's just regurgitating pop culture he's aware of, just like how he's paying someone to play games for him. Art, culture, media, it's all just a prop for him.

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I don't think Musk has understood a single movie he has ever watched...

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mxargent.bsky.social•13 days ago

He gives "Has the interiority of a sea sponge"

purinos.bsky.social•13 days ago

Elon Musk thinks that he would be Neo in The Matrix, but in reality, he would be Cypher. In this essay I will... 1/8

keybug55.bsky.social•14 days ago

Big Bang Theroy type thinking

Just say nerdy shit and expect people to laugh

romabysen.bsky.social•14 days ago

"success one of the possible outcomes". Possible? Ok, so you're not going program it to make success a guarantee?

cursedcharley.bsky.social•14 days ago

He acts like the typical "I'm the king of the nerds" guy. Throws around nothing but pop culture references that are easily caught even if you haven't seen it, lacks or refuses any context, and never actually interacts with the stuff either.
A prop like you said and in place of a personality.

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•14 days ago

Everything he thinks he knows about The Matrix and the Kobayashi Maru exam he learned from memes and edgelords. I doubt he's even seen Star Trek II and his engagement with The Matrix is thimble-deep.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's like when Trump was ranting about Parasite taking best picture and saying something like "what ever happened to movies like Gone With The Wind?"

He's never seen Gone With The Wind, he just name dropped something he'd heard of.

patrixilent.bsky.social•13 days ago

or when he lied about reading all of tom wolfe's novels and then couldn't give even one title

rattypumpkin.bsky.social•13 days ago

To be fair name dropping "Gone With the Wind" might have also been because, outside of demagogues in states like Texas getting to control the US's textbook industry, it's one of the most successful and important pieces of pro-slavery "Lost Cause" propaganda ever made. https://youtu.be/dOkFXPblLpU?si=ZIH46n69IqfgwP8n

rattypumpkin.bsky.social•13 days ago

"Gone With the Wind" is textbook "Lost Cause"/Neo-Confederate propaganda. It portrays slavery as a benevolent institution, with the pre-war south full of happy slaves and glamorous and kind slave owners. The Union forces portrayed as a rampaging horde leaving destruction and disorder in their wake.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•14 days ago

Still one of the most embarrassing things was when he just replied "NERV" to someone who asked if he watched Evangelion, as if the man ever Eva'd a ngelion in his life!

pattiblacxk.bsky.social•14 days ago

It is kinda funny in retrospect the thing he chose to name-drop was basically the show's torment nexus instead of going on about the scene in EoE where Ibuki got tang'd by a doppelganger of Ritsuko

endblock.bsky.social•14 days ago

this is barely more embarrassing than that time he just tweeted out the flavors of quark unprompted so he could look smart to people who don't know anything about particle physics. it's like "i'm 12 and this is so deep" but for intelligence.

dusktodusk94.bsky.social•14 days ago

i feel like he meant to type "NEVER" which with incidents like that, covfefe, and hamberders, its very funny how obvious it is when hes the one with the phone vs social media managers posting for him

notyetrain.bsky.social•14 days ago

He commented it like it was some sort of catchphrase or quote from the show, I think he even put a "!" behind it. I think that was the moment when I become completely convinced he had never consumed any of the pieces of media he loves to reference

gutsnbuts.bsky.social•13 days ago

Reading this in a Homers "- this man never had a duff in his life" voice makes it even funnier)

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's the world's most pathetic emperor's new suit

emberaegle.bsky.social•13 days ago

Musk would for sure read that story and go "the suit is real and I would definitely see it"

jojosbizarrelife.bsky.social•13 days ago

I was tired of Caillou at 52 back when he was 42.

jgreene.bsky.social•13 days ago

Emperor's New Eva Unit: Eva Unit 420-69.

"Shinji, like, just get in the Cybertruck."

shino1.bsky.social•14 days ago

See if he did, Gendo being a terrible absent father whose kid hates him would hit way too close to home.

rfswitchart.bsky.social•13 days ago

And would see how bad Gendo fucked everything up, forcing him to own up to his own hubris.

melodyshreds.bsky.social•14 days ago

Lmao I was gonna mention that

Dude looked up Eva and posted the first unique looking term he found it's so funny.

reubenhub.bsky.social•14 days ago

And old white people think Gone With the Wind was the height of cinema, I remember the commercials on TBS when I was a kid, at least I think it was TBS

shino1.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's pro slavery and pro rape, he might've actually watched it.

shino1.bsky.social•14 days ago

As a teen, I used to read Wikipedia and TV Tropes summaries of things I haven't watched to try to fit in.

I think that might be the case here.

maeljade.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don't think he even does that. He probably hired someone to read it for him and give him the shortest "how can I fit in with the cool kids by making pop culture references in my tweets" summary possible.

vekzero.bsky.social•14 days ago

He is AI

sasuga.bsky.social•14 days ago

Plus I think he forgot how to spell “Kobayashi”

vanoreo.bsky.social•14 days ago

in a way hes kinda like grok isnt he

nocatsnomasters.bsky.social•14 days ago

A shallow tool made by shallow men. It reflects back to them their own lack of engagement with the ideas they're exposed to and so they think it insightful.

ofvick.bsky.social•14 days ago

AI ass behavior

nillbewton.bsky.social•14 days ago

"This game of checkers will topple like a house of cards... checkmate."

psgamer92.bsky.social•14 days ago

Of course not. Especially hilarious how conservatives were railing against films like Parasite when American movies are heavily inspired by foreign films. From Seven Samurai to The Magnificent Seven, Metropolis to Star Wars, Lady Snowblood to Kill Bill.

rolandguiscard.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's because they don't have the ability to engage with art. That would require entropy and introspection, for them to stop and think about how something made them feel. They can't do that, because then they'd realize how hollow their existence is.

firengames.com•14 days ago

Dude pays people to play games for him I doubt he has the attention span to watch a movie

vrok2401.bsky.social•14 days ago

Ready Player One's villain is a CEO who's a pop culture idiot and has experts feeding him pop culture knowledge as well as a legion of slaves playing a game competing for ownership of said game that he wants to take control and profit off.

Guess there are similarities with that CEO and the husk.

step-hen.bsky.social•13 days ago

From now on, I'm calling him Elon Husk.

mow.mom•14 days ago

I wouldn't expect anything less from an individual who paid for a cameo in Rick and Morty

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