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Sam Hyde's "Dear Elon" Video refers to a long-form video posted by controversial internet figure Sam Hyde, best known for his past work on Adult Swim's Million Dollar Extreme, for being the subject of a number of shooter hoaxes and for creating the reality show Fishtank. In late December 2024, Sam Hyde posted a video directed at Elon Musk after the tech billionaire incited controversy for his stance on H-1B Visas. In the video, Hyde name-dropped notable streamers like Asmongold, leading to him and others like Destiny to post their reactions to the video as it garnered virality online heading into early January 2025.

Origin

On December 30th, 2024, Sam Hyde posted a 40-minute long video to his Twitter^[1] / X account @wigger with the caption, "Dear Elon."

The video shows Hyde addressing Elon Musk's statements regarding his support for the H-1B visa and touches on Hyde's disagreement with Indian immigration specifically. Hyde extends his arguments to Chinese and Hispanic immigration as well, asserting that "Humans are not interchangeable economic units," and urging Elon Musk to backtrack on his statements and take a more critical view on immigration.

Dear Elon: pic.twitter.com/lVIGstj99o

— Sam Hyde 🇺🇸 (@wigger) December 31, 2024

The topic timestamps for Hyde's video are shown below:

• Why This Video — 01:58
• Not About Hate for Indians — 05:48
• It's Not About Exceptional Indians — 07:36
• Human Beings Are Interchangeable Economic Units — 09:56
• Same Argument for Hispanics — 13:50
• Competing with China — 15:29
• "Winning" — 22:06
• What is a Nation — 30:31
• Americans Aren't Good Enough — 33:24
• People Will Forgive You — 37:02
• Ultimately — 38:22

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After being uploaded on December 30th, 2024, Sam Hyde's "Dear Elon" video garnered some criticism online given his controversial reputation and supposed espousal of "alt-right" ideas online.

For example, some X users criticized Hyde, describing him as an "HGH [human growth hormone] addict" prone to preying on "barely legal" women in the Rhode Island Providence area. X^[3] user @castleb0y quoted Hyde's post on December 30th, 2024, writing, "I'm a 39 year old man addicted to hgh and touching on barely legal girls in the providence rhode island area and here are my thoughts on the future of the country," and gathering over 39,000 likes in three days.

However several Twitter / X users also reacted positively to Sam Hyde's video, with some describing the video as well-made, well-argued and compelling.

For instance, on December 31st, 2024, X^[2] user and conservative commentator @AuronMacintyre described Hyde's video as, "More clear eyed and insightful than 95% of the conservative commentariat," gathering over 20,000 likes in two days.

Also on December 31st, Twitch streamer and YouTuber Asmongold posted a YouTube^[4] video reacting to Sam Hyde's "Dear Elon" video, gathering over 1.2 million views in three days.

Some internet users also noted that Hyde may have purposefully baited Asmongold into reacting to his video by name-dropping him numerous times and effectively projecting his video to Asmongold's larger audience. On January 1st, 2025, X^[5] user @lordvictor made a post joking about Hyde's "150 IQ," and commending him for getting "talked about by (relative) normies."

Sam Hyde's IQ is like 150 and I'm not even joking.

Mentioning Asmongold 100 times as a joke also had a practical purpose: to get talked about by (relative) normies. https://t.co/JpgAR9i2G6

— Lord Victor ⏸️ (@lordvictor) January 1, 2025

On January 1st, 2025, streamer Destiny posted a YouTube^[6] video reacting to Sam Hyde as well, gathering over 100,000 views in two days.

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