this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] Veltoss 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Always thought it was pretty silly that a good portion of the musk spam on reddit was from a sub called "enough musk spam", and now it's here too. Name seems kind of backwards doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always assumed the “musk spam” they’re referring to is all the “isn’t Musk a genius?!” wank off spam that was probably more common when that sub started

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that’s the case. Otherwise the sub serves to stop spamming shit about Musk in general, in which case… what do we post here? Lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back then when the sub was created, every technology-relared sub were always filled with "Musk did this" or "Musk said that". They were spammed with Musk and Twitter-related topics. They created the sub specifically so people can post those articles there and not spam the normal subs.

[–] Veltoss 2 points 1 year ago

But literally all it did was create yet another place, and now they're just another musk circlejerk sub creating more musk threads, completely defeating the purpose.

[–] givesomefucks 3 points 1 year ago

That's not specific to Musk...

Any sub named "enough_____spam" was/is just a place to go and hate on _____

[–] Mateoto 20 points 1 year ago

Well, he once criticized Twitter for being spammed with bots. And it was pretty obvious he was projecting a lot and probably revealed that the rich use fake profiles and spammers to increase popularity on their online profiles.

[–] Phegan 7 points 1 year ago
[–] paddirn 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Totally unimportant (as is anything related to Twitter), but I always wonder about that Twitter profile image for Musk. Literally everytime I see it I think, "Is he wearing the Ant Man costume?" Does anybody have a link to the original image, because I have no idea what the hell he's wearing.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well, this is uncomfortable.

[–] Prior_Industry 2 points 1 year ago

That girdle is working overtime

[–] FabioTheNewOrder 2 points 1 year ago

The fact that this man is held up as an example of an enlightened free speech defender and businessman by the same people fighting to ban books because they have a minor reference about sexual orientation or minority history should be the best argument against any discourse with such kind of people.

Never fight with a stupid, he or she will drag you at his or her level and will beat you with his or her experience

[–] Timboflex 3 points 1 year ago

It took me a minute to realize the "tool" mentioned wasn't Elon himself.