Heres Whats Happening With Elon Musks Twitter Picture – Forbes

WASHINGTON DC, USA - MARCH 9: Elon Musk, Founder and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaks during the ... [+] Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, United States on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

So, Elon Musk is having what the internet might call a normal one. The billionaire Tesla CEO is no stranger to social media explosions, but his twitter feed over the past two days has been exceptional even by those standards. Much of this is doesnt require too much explanation: he pivoted on Friday from talking about how businesses needed to open despite the risk of coronoavirus to more existential content, saying that he was going to sell all his possessions and that his girlfriend was mad at him. He also changed his profile picture, which might confuse someone not all that familiar with video game history.

The game from his profile picture is Deus Ex, released in 2000 by Eidos Interactive and Square Enix. Its a seminal cyberpunk game and one of the sterling examples of interactive sims and first-person RPGs, but its setting is probably a little more relevant here. In it, a conspiracy has released a man-made plague called the Gray Death as a kind of mass culling pandemic, and are using their military might to restrict access to the vaccine.

Deus Ex

Its relevant to our current situation in broad strokes, mostly, but also in the more specific notion of a deadly disease that disproportionately effects the already poor.

Its unclear what, exactly, Musk wishes to communicate by bringing Deus Ex into an already perplexing Twitter rant, but most on social media have pointed out that he bears a certain resemblance to the power-hungry billionaire that becomes the games main antagonist. Musk recently attempted to force his employees to show up to work despite the statewide stay-at-home order, and has vocally downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19 for months.

In the game, Pages ultimate plan is to merge with an AI to become a kind of all-powerful God, which does seem like it would be up Musks alley. Again, his choice to switch his profile picture to plague-oriented fiction doesnt seem like a coincidence given the current circumstances, but its unclear what, beyond that, hes trying to say.

Tesla stock was down more than 10% at market close on Friday.

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