It’s safe to assume that Twitter CEO Elon Musk loves it when postings go viral on the social media site he paid $44 billion to acquire. After all, that’s good for his bottom line.
But a new nickname for Musk that was hatched on Twitter is almost certain to irritate him because it paints him as a shallow, thin-skinned little snowflake who complains about everything.
Ladies and gentleman, meet “Space Karen” a.k.a. Elon Musk, which HuffPost explains is what many on social media think about the billionaire.
The term — a mashup reference to Musk’s ambitions with rocket company SpaceX and a pejorative label usually used to describe a white woman showing privileged behavior — has been tweeted before. But it was turbocharged Friday and early Saturday after a man reportedly calling himself a “projection activist” cast a series of mocking monikers onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters, with photos and video of his projections going viral.
As Space Karen was going viral, other monikers were also applied to Musk:
- Bankruptcy Baby
- Mediocre Manchild
And, as Space Karen gained traction on Twitter, hashtags also began to proliferate that are likely to upset Musk: #RIPTwitter, #Goodbye Twitter, and #TwitterDown.
But perhaps the best part of Musk’s new nickname was the reaction it received on Twitter. Take a look:
