After Elon Musk Earns an “F” in Advertising, We Move to Some Furry/Feathery Fun…

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Well, it looks like the world’s richest antisemitic-white-nationalist-cuckoo-bird is hell-bent on destroying his self-sullied nest.

Apologies to cuckoo birds everywhere–though their penchant for brood parasitism does not seem admirable.

But let’s get back to the Big Bad Boy.

Not satisfied to drive away an estimated $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year by using his platform to echo a monstrous antisemitic trope, thereby vastly expanding its reach, he chose to answer a question at a forum of supposedly Very Important People to which he’d been invited by The-Never-Fail-to-Disappoint-Me-With-Your-Bad-Decisions New York Times with Muskian diplomacy.

The moderator, apparently looking for news, asked Musk what he’d say to Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO. Iger is one of a number of heads of large corporations that have “paused” their advertising on Twitter/X in reaction to Musk’s most sweepingly odious hit job on the world’s Jewish people to date.

Musk’s response:

“If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? go f—- yourself.”

Apparently reveling in his adolescent attempt at…what? shocking cleverness?, he continued:

“Go f—- yourself, is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel. Don’t advertise.”

So my thinking is that due to Musk’s instability, Twitter may well go away at any point.

Therefore, I should waste no time in bringing you several of the delightful animal videos with cute captions that I’ve been saving.

This fun is attributable to Buitengebieden, who identifies himself as Sander from the Netherlands and writes “Welcome to the positive side of X.” Buitengebieden (whose name I have to check every time I type it) posts each day. He’s one of a number of individuals still on Twitter whom I’d miss.

It will take you less than a minute to watch them all.

Make sure you watch this to the end.

I hope you enjoyed these as much as I do. Despite the abhorrent Musk’s best efforts to make Twitter a cesspool of hate, there remains much that’s delightful, informational in a good sense, and even inspirational.

Annie

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29 thoughts on “After Elon Musk Earns an “F” in Advertising, We Move to Some Furry/Feathery Fun…”

  1. I’ve been following the Musk meltdown, and X’s steady, slopping death. Your summary of the latest is perfect.

    Loved those videos. I’m always willing to pause to laugh. It’s often needed as a counterbalance for everything else happening. Cheers

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    1. Richard, I saw the Casablanca clip on my phone, but it’s not here.

      Though I always enjoy it, I’m not following your drift in placing it as a comment on this post, unfortunately. “We’ll always have Paris”? “Not much three little people can do”? “Here’s looking at you, kid”. Are we just celebrating the film’s 70th anniversary? Other? Sorry, but would you mind explaining?

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      1. “…there remains much that’s delightful, informational in a good sense, and even inspirational.” The wistfulness in your expression. “We’ll always have Paris”just popped to mind. Then I saw the clip and the conflicts of love, jobs and duty and thought it perfect for now. If we are lucky we’ll find our friends again, in the meantime we have Nazis to fight.

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  4. Musk seems to be a mix of P.T. Barnums huckterism, Fords anti labor anti semitic beliefs and bobby fishers dramatic and public decline into madness,(with more then a dollop of anti-sematism to fuel the fall)

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  6. I, too, used to follow Buitengebieden before I left Twitter. As for Musk … I’ve always heard it said that he is some sort of genius, really intelligent, but given what I’ve seen since he took over Twitter … nah, he’s no genius … he’s not even of average intelligence! LOVED the animal clips!!! More, please!

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    1. Musk seems to be very good at exploiting the genius of others, Jill. However, I saw an interview a while back with journalist Kara Swisher, who said she’s known him for years and has done multiple in-depth interviews with him. She had called him a “visionary” but felt he’d changed dramatically. On CNN after his recent tirade, she said his “bizarre performance” was a “meltdown.” But then she said it wasn’t rally bizarre because he keeps doing it. “The richest man in the world wants to say advertisers are the problem. He’s the problem.”

      I promise to provide more furry/feathery fun in the near future.

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      1. Perhaps being “the richest man in the world” went to his head? He seems to believe that no matter what he does, it’ll all work out fine. Thumbing his nose at the advertisers and telling them to “F*** You” would well mean the end of Twitter, but I guess he has enough money to keep it alive. Funny, though, that I read a while back that he wasn’t paying the rent on his office space. Ask me again why I have little use for wealth. I’ll be looking forward to the furry/feathery fun!

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  7. Musk seems to be just throwing petulant tantrums in frustration at discovering that there are, in fact, some people and companies out there which he cannot bully into submission.

    I wouldn’t worry about the cute animal videos. There are plenty of other platforms out there on which such videos regularly appear.

    Musk is not a genius. He’s an arrogant socially-dysfunctional narcissist who was born into wealth, got lucky with a few investments, and bought companies which were already developing new technology. He himself contributed nothing to the growth of that technology. If anything, the quality of what those companies do has gone down since he took them over. Twitter is the best-known example, just because it’s something lots of people use all the time (or used to), but there are also his exploding rockets and cars. I don’t know of anything which he has actually improved.

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    1. Good point, Infidel. It sure seems like he’s batting in the minus range. I think one problem is that there are so many individuals eager to be dazzled by great wealth–which these narcissists transform into power. I find the PT Barnum appellation fits, just as it fits Trump, who actually convinced people he had great wealth when he’d lost his abundant inheritance.

      I guess it’s too much to hope society demands good works from those who either inherit or accrue great wealth, though I think at least we should insist they pay their fair share of taxes–and their workers should demand they be well-treated.

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      1. Musk is indeed a very similar type to Trump. I just hope he doesn’t someday get the idea of running for president. Certainly there are many eager to be dazzled. Quite a few right-wing bloggers and pseudo-news sites treat Musk as a sort of guru, whose utterances constitute wisdom to be venerated. It’s very odd.

        Inadequate taxation of such people is one of the major political and social distortions of our time. It’s insane that a few people like Musk and Bezos pile up wealth in the hundreds of billions, while tens of millions of people struggle to survive. The revenue to improve society has to come from somewhere, and much more of it should come from those whose wealth is so vast that they will not suffer at all by having it taxed at a high rate.

        Ironically, it’s the billionaires who genuinely did build their wealth by their own efforts and achievements (rather than by inheritance and exploiting workers) who do contribute the most in good works — I’m thinking of people like Taylor Swift and JK Rowling, the latter of whom actually lost her status as a billionaire by contributing so much to worthy causes.

        People like Musk and Trump epitomize bottomless greed and cannot even behave like adults in public, slinging profanity and engaging in toddler-level name-calling, and ruining whatever they touch, whether it’s Twitter or the US political system. Musk’s endorsement of anti-Jewish bigotry has been the final straw for many, but he showered many straws onto the camel’s back before that.

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  10. Apologies to cuckoo birds everywhere…

    OMG Annie, that is pure comedy!!! I still can’t stop laughing at it! 🤣 Brilliant! It’s a compliment to Elon Musk isn’t it? But a damn insult to all Cuckoo birds in the world, right!? BWAAAAA! 🤣

    Fantastic blog-post Annie! Bravo Ma’am! 👏

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    1. Well, HE is certainly unstable, Matthew. I keep hoping some public interest consortium will buy it from him and build on the public square concept that once appeared possible—though I don’t know if there’s a way to tamp down the hatred.

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      1. You know my thoughts on good or bad. It is shocking to see and hear such a quantity of vitriol but it is better to know your enemies than to have them sneak up on you in the dark. I don’t know Musk but I am enthralled by the number of people who think vast wealth a burden with no weight.

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