Featured Image Credit: Elon Musk via Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg via Facebook
Topics: Real Life
There’s a growing rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and it’s hit a new level of silly. After originally challenging one another to a cage fight, Elon Musk has now called Zuckerberg a “cuck”, suggesting they should have a “d**k measuring contest”. Sigh.
Elon Musk is, as I’m sure you’re aware, the tech mogul behind Twitter. Musk didn’t found Twitter, but he did complete a $44 billion buyout last year. He actually tried to back out of the deal, but it was eventually forced through. Maybe that’s why he’s so dead set on destroying the platform - ripping up the Verified system, introducing Twitter Blue subscriptions, putting regular features behind a paywall, and of course, there was the whole 600 tweet limit debacle.
Capitalising on Twitter’s impending downfall, Meta founder Zuckerberg - owner of Facebook and Instagram - recently launched rival platform Threads. It’s lacking many of Twitter’s features (a ‘following’ feed, private messages etc), but it’s already had well over 70 million sign ups and feels like the start of something major. The launch of Threads seems to have intensified Musk’s dislike of Zuckerberg.
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As reported by TweakTown, since the apps’ launch, Musk has been non-stop tweeting about Zuckerberg. In one tweet, he wrote, “Zuck is a cuck”. He then followed this up with, “I propose a literal d**k measuring contest”. It’s certainly not very mature. ‘Cuck’ refers to someone who is weak, or to a man whose wife is unfaithful to him.
In case you missed it, Musk previously challenged Musk to “a cage match” with Zuckerberg responding with, “Send me a location”. Apparently, there have been very real negotiations behind the scenes about the fight, which many assumed to be a media stunt. There are no concrete plans right now but clearly, there’s a lot of life left in this rivalry.