Have you seen a tweet from Grimes making fun of her former partner, Elon Musk, for saying that wealthy ex-wives are destroying Western civilization? The Grimes tweet is fake. The musician didn’t actually poke fun at Musk over the comment. The Musk tweet, on the other hand, is completely real.
“’Super
rich
ex-wives
who
hate
their
former
spouse’
should
filed
be
listed
among
‘Reasons
that
Western
Civilization
died,’”
the
billionaire
SpaceX
CEO
tweeted
on
Wednesday.
Musk’s very real tweet was a response to a user on X who was criticizing MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, over the kinds of organizations to which she donates her money. Scott has given away at least $16 billion since her divorce. But the groups she’s giving to are apparently too woke, in this particular person’s opinion.
A
very
real
tweet
from
billionaire
Elon
Musk
sent
on
March
6,
2024.
Screenshot:
X
And
that’s
when
Musk,
a
billionaire
who’s
been
married
three
times,
chimed
in
to
give
his
two
cents
about
how
wealthy
ex-wives
are
somehow
destroying
civilization.
Musk
didn’t
elaborate
on
how
that
could
be
possible,
but
we
digress.
All
of
this
is
the
background
necessary
to
understand
the
fake
Grimes
tweet
that’s
currently
going
viral.
“Is the ex-wife destroying Western Civilization in the room with us right now?” the snarky fake tweet from Grimes reads.
Musk is the father of at least two children with Grimes, who is often used as a foil in photoshopped jokes about the billionaire. But this one isn’t a real tweet from the musician.
The fake tweet from Grimes (top) over a very real tweet from Elon Musk. Screenshot: X
Who created this fake tweet to make it look like it was sent by Grimes? That appears to be an X account with the name Trap Queen Enthusiast and the handle @marionumber4. Gizmodo confirmed with the creator they indeed conjured this joke into existence on Wednesday, and it seems to be taking on a life of its own, as memes have been known to do.
You can even find the fake tweet on Bluesky, a competitor to X, where people there also believe it’s real.
“Better
men
have
deleted
their
accounts
and
retired
from
the
internet
after
burns
half
as
severe
as
that,”
one
Bluesky
user
said
late
Wednesday.
And just in case you didn’t think the chain of custody on this fake tweet wasn’t complex enough, another fake screenshot of the Grimes tweet has been created to make it look like a Community Note has been added.
“While she did bear multiple of Elon’s children, Grimes was never technically married to Elon. Elon’s only real ex-wife is merely kinda rich,” the fake Community Note reads.
Yet
another
fake
tweet
purporting
to
show
a
Community
Note
on
a
Grimes
tweet.
The
Musk
tweet
is
the
only
thing
that’s
real
in
this
image.
Screenshot:
X
And that’s how these things spread. A joke that most people within a small online circle fully understand as a joke will break containment, spreading across the internet and even jumping to other social media sites. And then people are left to wonder whether it’s real or not—be it Mike Lindell supposedly driving drunk or an adorable croissant in the shape of a dinosaur.
Checking
the
official
Grimes
X
account
won’t
answer
the
mystery
either,
as
it’s
not
there
and
anyone
who’s
asked
can
only
respond
that
maybe
she
deleted
it.
Well,
we’re
here
to
tell
you
this
one
is
fake
because
we
confirmed
it
with
the
creator.
But,
again,
we
can’t
stress
enough
that
Musk’s
bizarre
tweet
about
ex-wives
destroying
Western
civilization
is
very
real.
He
really
is
just
a
very
strange
dude.
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