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Elon will not be able to escape justice after doing this poop emoji.
How would Twitter describe its own relationship with the media?
With a poop emoji.
That was the company’s seemingly on-the-record reply to an emailed question from the Guardian. To be fair, it’s now the automatic reply to any inquiry directed to press@twitter.com, as Elon Musk announced on Sunday – presumably forcing many journalists to resist asking how he would describe himself.
press@twitter.com now auto responds with 💩
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2023
It’s not the first time the CEO has wielded the emoji with such eloquence. When Twitter’s ex-boss Parag Agrawal offered him a detailed explanation about why it would be difficult to estimate how widespread bots are on the platform, Musk replied with the same image last May. Twitter cited that reply in its lawsuit seeking to force Musk to complete his purchase of the platform, prompting him to explain with trademark brevity that “💩 = BS”.
Why, exactly, does a 51-year-old man appear to be stuck in Freud’s anal stage? Psychoanalysts contacted by the Guardian seemed reluctant to weigh in, but it comes as little surprise to Magdalena Wojcieszak, a professor of communication at the University of California, Davis. Musk, she says, is wooing supporters by employing the language of populism.
Magdalena Wojcieszak
It’s “an indicator of this deeper trend of trivialization of public and political discourse in the United States”, Wojcieszak says. “One of the aspects of populist discourse and populist politicians or populist rhetoric is simplicity, right? It’s the appeal to the common folk, anti-intellectualism, anti-elitism.” That’s in line with Musk’s longstanding persona as an unconventional businessman with a penchant for bluntness.
The emoji feeds into an “us v them” mentality, Wojcieszak notes – “the good, virtuous us, the ones who are – in the case of Donald Trump, for instance – the real Americans, the patriots, and Musk is feeding into that.” In the eyes of his allies, he’s mocking the “them”, the perceived leftists in universities and the media, who might never recover from their exposure to a cartoon image of feces with eyes.
Well.
That’s a pretty serious amount of analysis for a poop emoji.
I think, most likely, he just isn’t all that into you guys.
He can go on podcasts that get a lot more eyeballs than you do, without having to deal with your bullshit ideology.
