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Kanye West And Elon Musk Standing is an image macro posted to Twitter in early July 2020 of Elon Musk and Kanye West posing while Grimes takes a picture of them. The image, captioned by West "When you go to your boys house and you're both wearing orange," accumulated various captions and was mocked due to Grimes reflection and the men's serious poses.

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On July 1st, 2020, Kanye West posted an image of himself and Elon Musk posing for the camera to Twitter.^[1] The post captioned, "When you go to your boys house and you’re both wearing orange 🍊" garnered over 754,100 likes and 127,100 retweets in a day (shown below).

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On July 1st, 2020, Twitter user @its_menieb^[4] added the caption, Damn Bro, You Got The Whole Squad Laughing to the image and received over 7,100 likes in a day (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @thirstbicth^[5] retweeted the image saying, "Not them forcing grimes to take this pic… girl on god we gonna get you out of there" (referencing her reflection) and accumulated over 131,000 likes and 12,800 retweets in a day (shown below, right).

Later that day, Twitter user @MorningBrew^[6] posted an edit of the image with the caption, 'When you go to your boys house and you're both oranges" (shown below). The tweet gained over 230 likes in a day. Stereogum^[2] and Independent^[3] both published articles on the image.

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