A Twitter / X account named @Gork has been jokingly sparring with Elon Musk (and seemingly the rest of the site) this past week, leaving many wondering if Grok AI has had a rebrand.

The parody account isn't the first to coin "Gork," given that unassuming internet users have been accidentally tagging "@gork" instead of "@grok" for weeks now — a practice that skyrocketed after the Studio Ghibli AI craze of March 2025.

But after AI critics began mocking people for their overreliance on Grok by jokingly tagging "Gork," it seems like some tech-savvy people caught on and decided to give the people what they want: a dumber, funnier chatbot.

Here's a brief internet history of the AI parody Gork, and how it went from inside joke to a mainstream Twitter bot.

What Does ‘Gork’ Mean, and Where Did the Jokes Come From?

Gork began as a series of typos. On March 30th, 2025, a Nepali X user named Sashin45 posted a selfie with the caption, "@gork make this studio gibli," trying to participate in the Studio Ghibli AI trend in which users turned real photos into Ghibli-inspired art using GPT-4o's Image Generation tool.

X user @reinabugs reposted the tweet, highlighting the typos "gibli" and "gork," netting over 140,000 likes and sparking off a series of Gork jokes.

From there, Gork became an ironic stand-in for Grok, the actual AI assistant built into Twitter. Users began tagging @gork in response to news posts or confusing screenshots, mocking the growing habit of asking Grok to "explain" things that arguably didn’t even need explaining.

A notable post from April 3rd read, "@gork is this true," in reply to a tweet joking about banks running out of money. The user's Tony Stark Jarvis Commands meme as their profile picture was the perfect accompaniment to the inane tweet, and the meme became as notable as the "studio gibli" meme.

By mid-April 2025, tagging "@gork" had become both a running joke and a kind of shorthand for poking fun at the platform’s AI hype.

What is @Gork, the Parody Grok Account?

Launched on April 30th, 2025, @Gork is a parody account that tweets like a slang overloaded Gen Z social media intern. The account began replying to every user who tags it, giving the impression that it was automated in a way similar to Grok.

By early May 2025, Elon Musk had joined in on the joke. On May 4th, he changed his profile pic to match @Gork and tweeted "sup @gork changed my pp to urs wdyt," and continued to tag and interact with the chatbot at length.

Many people were not amused. By May 3rd, a user tweeted "jokes over pack it up" alongside a screenshot of Musk interacting with Gork, gathering over 100,000 likes from people who seemed to agree.

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For the full history of Gork, be sure to check out Know Your Meme's encyclopedia entry for more information.