Manu Saadia, writer of trekonomics, had already nicknamed Elon Musk “Space Karen,” so there was some history here.
Oh god, what a self-serving megalomaniac. He thinks breaking the COVID lockdown rules is like civil rightsbusiness owners and hustlers, into spreading the virus. So I quote-tweeted, or rather dunked on his tweet: “He thinks he’s Rosa Parks when he’s just Space Karen.” It took off and went viral. I know it’s a bit misogynistic, but it works in the context of the tweet, and also at the time there were a lot of Karens yelling to reopen this or that small business.Space Karen has become a meme.
I’ve made real-life friends on Twitter. Quite a few. They’ve all been just exactly as they are online: wonderful, eccentric, sweet, generous. I hope they like me as much as I like them. It was a wonderful small community of weirdos—that was my Twitter. I know it’s a very different experience, or it fulfills a very different need or function, for many other people. Some of my freelance writer friends depend on it for their livelihood. I don’t know what the future holds.
I would certainly hope not, because I do not need the headaches. But I guess I’m screwing myself by doing this Q&A.Tough one. The guy is my age. It’s probably too late to change. Barring therapy, I’d humbly suggest for him to delete the Twitter app from his phone and, uh, as the saying goes, “
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