Twitter has gotten significantly worse ever since Elon Musk bought it and turned it into X. It is backloaded with useless AI features, you can't really block anyone, allowing further grounds for harassment. It is a safe haven for bots to crowd your replies and timeline. Lastly, literal nazis flood the app more and more. It's deeply exhausting a lot of days and it threw off a lot of what made the app enjoyable in the first place. Now imagine if he bought TikTok. That was a genuine proposition that left the internet repulsed by the idea.
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Recently, Bloomberg cited anonymous sources that Chinese authorities were weighing the potential of a sale of TikTok to Elon Musk as the app faces a potential ban in the United States. However, upon further investigation from Variety, the company essentially scoffs at the idea of the Tesla CEO taking over. "We can't be expected to comment on pure fiction," a rep tells them.
The Internet is Repulsed by The Idea of Elon Musk Buying TikTok
Musk hasn't spoken on this potential prospect either. Still, the mere idea was enough to send Twitter users into an absolute frenzy. Take one person who jokes that he'll rename the app to something silly and stupid like he did with X. "Elon gonna buy TikTok and name it something stupid like XO," they quip.
What's even funnier in this whole exchange is that people are going to drastic lengths to spite the potential TikTok ban. They reckon that if people can't use an app they love or it's sold to Elon Musk, they'll migrate to an even more overtly Chinese app. Take Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, which recently hit number one on the US app store as TikTok inches closer to extinction. Apparently, their experiences on the app has people wondering why people are supposed to hate them in the first place. "Lmao at thousands of people downloading Rednote to spite the U.S. government," one person writes. "Finding themselves having lovely interactions with the millions of Chinese citizens on the app and inadvertently undoing decades of U.S. propaganda."
