A scathing nickname for Twitter owner Elon Musk has been trending on his social media platform this week: “space Karen.”
The term — a reference to Musk’s ambitions with rocket company SpaceX and a pejorative label typically used to describe a white woman exhibiting privileged behavior — was previously tweeted. But it was turbocharged on Friday and Saturday morning after a man allegedly called himself”projection activist” launched a series of challenges at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, with photos and video his projections go viral.
Countless users soon began using the “Space Karen” taunt in their tweets. Other insults hurled at the building, meanwhile, included “bankrupt child”, “petulant trash” and “mediocre child”.
The hashtags #RIPTwitter, #GoodByeTwitter and #TwitterDown were also trending on the platform this week as users feared the worst after the company’s mass layoffs and a series of seemingly random decisions from owned by the billionaire himself, who completed the acquisition of Twitter last time. month. .
