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WATCH: Twitter employee protest – Musk labelled ‘apartheid profiteer, space Karen’
The words 'space Karen, mediocre manchild, petulant pimple and supreme parasite' were splashed across the building on Friday.
Photos: Screengrabs from footage shared on social media. Insert: Elon Musk at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Norway on 29 August 2022. AFP/NTB/Carina Johansen
Earlier this week, Elon Musk demanded his dwindling workforce of Twitter employees to work longer hours.
Following Musk’s ultimatum, the company’s head office is reportedly closed until Monday.
Elon Musk’s Twitter saga continues
Musk’s recent memo to employees in which he demanded longer hours “to make Twitter hardcore” culminated in even more resignations.
Meanwhile, insults aimed at Musk have been projected on the company HQ in San Francisco, United States.
The projected banner has a string of creative insults, including dictator’s asskisser, lawless oligarch, insecure coloniser, mediocre manchild, petty racist, and cruel hoarder.
WATCH: Musk insults projected on Twitter HQ
Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight pic.twitter.com/wAmL4PUZkU
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll) November 18, 2022
Other choice words include space Karen, pressurised privilege, megalomaniac, worthless billionaire, bankruptcy baby, supreme parasite, petulant pimple and apartheid profiteer.
In another instance, the mystery protester projected an arrow pointing to the Twitter sign, along with the words, “Musk’s hellscape” and “Launching to bankruptcy”.
Projection activism
The hashtag #StopToxicTwitter and the phrase “Elon Musk, STFU!” also graced the side of Twitter’s headquarters early Friday morning.
Space Karen you say??
— Tales & Typos (@kathrynresister) November 18, 2022
Meme/art by @DickiePena pic.twitter.com/zqD0vHKPzr
As reported by Gia Vang from NBC Bay Arena, the phrases were being projected from a person across the street who called himself “a projection activist”.
This form of protest delighted eyewitnesses and netizens alike, with one person describing it as “non-destructive, techie graffiti”.
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Mass Twitter exodus
The hashtags #GoodbyeTwitter and #RIPTwitter began trending on Friday morning, as former employees announced their departure on social media.
Not sure which is my favorite, mediocre man-child or worthless billionaire? Probably worthless billionaire because it’s so descriptive and is easy to guess who vs a phrase that can describe many.
— Kristina Mathews (@KristinaMathews) November 18, 2022
Those who decided to leave were told they would receive a severance package of at least three months’ pay.
The employees who plan to stay do not know what the future holds or how Musk would compensate them for working longer hours.
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