Elon Musk is asking for the internet\u2019s \u2018dankest memes\u2019 It\u2019s no secret that tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a Twitter fiend \u2013 between roasting Fortnite players and his controversial Tweet around making Tesla private, Elon is now asking for the internet to give him their \u2018dankest memes.\u2019 Elon Tweeted out the request on October 25, which has since garnered a massive amount of feedback. \u201cSend me ur dankest memes!!\u201d he wrote, following up with a reply that asked users not to send him any of the recent moth memes circulating social media. \u201cNo moths tho.\u201d (Spoiler: internet didn\u2019t comply with this request.) Musk\u2019s Tweet gained a staggering 17,000 comments within the hour it was posted, many of which featured footage from his interview with Joe Rogan \u2013 more specifically, the now famous clip of him smoking a mixture of marijuana and tobacco. Other memes included commentary on Musk\u2019s business practices, as well as his Tweet concerning making Tesla private, which reportedly cost the CEO $20 million in a fine from the company. Musk responded to the memery in kind, posting a gif from the first Pokemon movie to describe his timeline. Musk\u2019s Twitter shenanigans don\u2019t stop there: he recently joked about deleting the massively popular battle royale title Fortnite on October 19, likewise taking shots at the game\u2019s pro players. He even engaged in playful banter with Team SoloMid\u2019s Myth, who Elon joked hadn\u2019t lost his virginity outside the game. Elon\u2019s Tweet asking for memes now has over 43,000 retweets and boasts over 185,000 likes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk is asking for the internet\u2019s \u2018dankest memes\u2019 It\u2019s no secret that tech billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a Twitter fiend \u2013 between roasting Fortnite players and his controversial Tweet around making Tesla private, Elon is now asking for the internet to give him their \u2018dankest memes.\u2019 Elon Tweeted out the request […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}