In the past five years, Musk transformed from tech\u002Dfamous to famous\u002Dfamous to what one could call \u0027red pill\u0027 famous
Growing up in Atlanta, he was playing the video game “EpicDuel” and came upon a villain character named Elon Musk wearing “this futuristic, like, armor suit,” Pollard-Watkins says. He was “like Iron Man, but on steroids.” It didn’t take long for him to discover that this “Elon Musk” was the game designers’ tribute to a real Elon Musk, then a sort of niche tech-world hero.
But over the past five years, Musk transformed from tech-famous to famous-famous to what one could call “red pill” famous. “Take the red pill,” he tweeted in 2020, a reference to the tablet in the “The Matrix” that has become associated with a conversion to right-wing views. On Twitter, where his following has nearly doubled in the past year to just over 100 million, Musk trolls the woke and hypes up fellow free speech fans in a way that leaves one guessing.
“I’m old enough to remember a certain time in history when billionaires were reclusive,” says Lainey Lui, founder of the celebrity-gossip website LaineyGossip. “Culture in general has always been interested in very wealthy people and their lives. . . . ‘What would it be like to have all that money? How do they spend it?'” As a result, many use their extraordinary wealth to buy extraordinary privacy.
Machine Gun Kelly and Tyler, the Creator have name-dropped Musk in song; the hook of Lil Uzi Vert’s 2017 track “Neon Guts” goes, “Higher than Elon Musk, so high stars eat our dust.” The year 2018 was also when Musk showed up to the Met Gala with Grimes, with whom he has two children with the unorthodox names X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl. He also gained a reputation for attaching himself to media sensations, pledging that his companies would assist a 2018 mission to free 12 boys trapped in a cave in Thailand and in 2019 sharing a new rap track with his name attached to it titled “RIP Harambe,” in reference to the late Cincinnati gorilla.
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