Musk's revenge

Zero is indeed a special number

I became interested in Elon when he went on Joe Rogan’s podcast for the first time in 2018. I mean, I heard of him, but I didn’t know much about him. As long ago as 2018 seems now, I remember at the time it was a huge deal and it changed podcasting (IMO).

I know the phrase “broke the internet” is overused but that episode truly did break the internet. What Elon did was an unforgivable sin because he circumvented traditional media, and their left wing biases, while also legitimized alternative media. Elon broke the unforgivable rule of going outside the tribe in which he was fed up with. Many of his career long supporters, such as my brother, turned their backs on him that day. What Elon did also set a new precedence and soon the likes of Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, and other politicians will mark JRE as a stop on their political campaign. Zero is a special number indeed.

Fast forward to recent history. Elon got shat on during his short leadership at DOGE. He had his famous falling out with Trump where he had a black eye and tweeting how Trump is in the Epstein files. Who knows what happened but it seems like Elon has been mostly gone from the public spotlight since then. 

My hypothesis

When Elon bought twitter, it forced the other social media sites to loosen up on their censorship, lest they suffer X owning the media space. As a result, it birthed a new market known as citizen journalism. The relaxed rules made it so deeply contraversial topics could be discussed more openly while also allowing a form of decentralized researching. It also made for an incentive structure for whistle blowers who otherwise might feel their testimony would not make a difference.