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Elon Musk Getting Booed At Dave Chappelle Stand-up Set refers to an event where Elon Musk was booed by a San Francisco audience after being brought out on stage by comedian Dave Chappelle on December 11th, 2022. The following day, a viral video from the set showing Musk being booed was posted to Twitter by an account that subsequently went inactive, with some speculating it was suspended despite no evidence of this.

Background

On December 12th, 2022, Twitter^[1] user @jamesjyu posted a tweet that read, "Was at the Dave Chappelle show at SF tonight and who comes on but Elon Musk! A good 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people. and he withers. Like absolutely turns into a corncob. 'What should I say??' He says[,] Dave tries to salvage the situation but to no avail." The tweet gathered over 19,000 likes in less than a day (seen below).

A video of the set can be accessed via reupload to YouTube^[2] by user Jean Wilda on December 12th, where it gathered over 56,000 views in less than a day (seen below).

Developments

On December 12th, 2022, various Twitter users noted that a FirstName BunchOfNumbers account, Twitter^[3] user @CleoPat48937885, that uploaded a video of the event no longer existed — some speculating that it was suspended despite no evidence of this. The tweet received an unknown number of likes but was reposted as a reply under the aforementioned @jamesjyu tweet by @venture42069^[4] (seen below).

On December 12th, Twitter^[5] user @Ilana_Stern also posted a tweet about Musk getting booed at the Chappelle show, noting that he was "not favored on his home turf" and that "He looked stunned, must not get enough feedback IRL." The tweet gathered over 20,000 likes in less than a day (seen below, left). Also On December 12th, Twitter^[6] user @angie_rasmussen tweeted a link to a Gizmodo^[7] article that described the scene from the set in more detail, gathering over 3,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

Throughout the following day after the comedy show, various Twitter accounts also began to post the video originally uploaded by @CleoPat48937885 as it went viral.^[8][9][10]

On December 12th, 2022, Twitter^[11] user and author of the aforementioned Gizmodo article, @paleofuture, posted another video from the stand-up set, gathering over 18,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Elon Musk shouting "I'm rich, bitch," while the sound people at Chappelle's show honk a horn to drown out the boos from the crowd is one of the saddest videos I've ever seen. https://t.co/tJHFRhKU3w pic.twitter.com/SeeLSZG93h

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) December 12, 2022

Elon Musk's Response

Elon Musk responded to discussions about the event in a December 12th, 2022, tweet^[12] that read, "Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter). It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh." The tweet gathered over 13,000 likes in three hours (seen below).

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