Elon Musk has joked he’s going to start posting nudes on X.
The 52-year-old business magnate bought the social media platform — formerly known as Twitter — last year in a deal thought to be worth $44 billion and has now teased followers that he could be posting NSFW content on the microblogging site.
Alongside a meme of a cat sitting on a stove, he joked: “I’m running out of memes. Nudes starting tomorrow.”
In terms of reactions, the post received more than half a million likes, 32,000 reposts, and over 4,000 bookmarks and was quoted by other users of the site thousands of times, many of whom questioned: “Is he joking?”.
One fan was quick to label the Tesla founder Elon — who is one of the wealthiest men in the world with a net worth of $225 billion — as the “meme king” and decreed “Long live Elon”, alongside their own meme of the businessman sitting on a throne in a hooded garment.
One fan joked: “So that’s why you renamed the platform to X” before the Elon Musk Pardoy account — which itself has garnered almost one million followers for its satirical take on the CEO — shared that Musk was “excited to share [his] first X-Video too!” following the teaser.
Elon previously explained that he rebranded Twitter — which was started up in 2006 and now has over 540 million users worldwide — to X simply because he “liked the letter”, and his meme came just days after it was revealed that he is putting almost 600 lots of old memorabilia based around the now-retired bird logo as part of an auction titled Twitter Rebranding: Online Auction Featuring Memorabilia, Art, Office Assets More!, which is set to begin on September 12.