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Quixote1818

(29,915 posts)
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 10:37 PM Sunday

Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She's Never Responded a Single Time

Gross!!!!!!

Pretty Please
Elon Musk has apparently had a longstanding crush of sorts on Taylor Swift, with his vile tweet suggesting he could impregnate her just the latest in a long string of embarrassing attempts to get her attention.

As X-formerly-Twitter user @esjesjes flagged, Musk has repeatedly addressed the 34-year-old pop star on the site he now owns — and it doesn't appear that she has ever responded, or even, as the user joked, "publicly acknowledged he exists."

Most of the posts, which seem to have started around 2022, give off the same vibes as thirsty randos commenting on models' Instagram photos. This might be sadder, however, because Musk is among the richest men in the world.

Responding to an April post, for instance, about the female billionaire becoming the first artist ever to occupy the top 14 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, Musk wrote with weird capitalization that although he isn't "quite the target audience," the feat was "nonetheless very Impressive indeed!"

Late last September, meanwhile, he provided unsolicited and extremely self-serving career advice.

"I recommend posting some music or concert videos directly on the X platform," Musk replied, again with no response from Swift.

Sounds of Silence
While none of those prior posts were anywhere near as egregious or direct as the multi-billionaire's threat to "give" Swift a baby following her endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, they show a clear pattern of desperation that he seems to have escalated.

More: https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-taylor-swift-attention

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ArkansasDemocrat1

(2,602 posts)
7. He's typing compliments like he's in a Facebook singles group trying to win someone's attention
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 11:45 PM
Sunday

You know the type. The ones who jump on her every post in seconds.

LudwigPastorius

(10,337 posts)
4. Get it through that alleged universe-sized brain of yours, chief.
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 11:13 PM
Sunday

She's not into you.

Why don't you fixate on someone more your speed, like Laura Loomer?

Intractable

(190 posts)
5. The weird things that Elon does make perfect sense when seen on the edge of Occam's razor.
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 11:24 PM
Sunday

He just wants attention. No matter if it's attention for being good (landing two rockets in synch) or attention for being bad (vile tweets). Famous or infamous. Mother Theresa or Hitler.

Unfortunately, he has discovered it's easier to get attention -- a quick rush -- from being bad and having people like those tweets.

It's advanced forms of boredom and narcissism.

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