Elon Musk Tweets About Buying And Fixing More Companies, Leading To Many Memes

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, went on a posting streak last night in which he seemed to sketch out, in his characteristic tone, his view on the platform’s future. In the most viral tweet (receiving over three million likes), Musk joked that he would buy Coca-Cola next and “put the cocaine back in.”

Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022

The richest guy in the planet is tweeting about buying coke so he can put the cocaine back in it

That’s how needy he is.

— THE SAD TRUTH (@SmnWeekly) April 28, 2022

The “coca” in “Coca-Cola” does originally come from coca (the plant used to make cocaine), and Coca-Cola contained coca-leaf extract until 1929, although the effects of that extract are not as strong as the effects of powder cocaine.
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Released in 1894, this is the first publicly sold bottle of Coca-Cola in which contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine. pic.twitter.com/jm35BQgsnW

— WTF Facts (@mrwtffacts) April 28, 2022

Many users joked about who might be happy about the reinsertion of cocaine into the Coca-Cola recipe, speculating that people like Donald Trump Jr. might enjoy the new beverage, among others. But overall, the replies to Elon Musk's tweet about cocaine were … scattered.

Uncle Elon, can I please have a pineapple pizza safe space in crypto Twitter

— WendyO.eth ✨ (@CryptoWendyO) April 28, 2022

Someone said Elon is putting more cocaine in cocaine? pic.twitter.com/njWobONr8X

— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) April 28, 2022

I don’t want any cocaine. I want the wall, Trump back in the White House and cheap gas.

— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) April 28, 2022

Do this:))) pic.twitter.com/yuiEPQUcpw

— parhamm (@Myfeatherss) April 28, 2022

Some people riffed off Musk's original tweet, proposing other companies the mega-billionaire could buy and other changes he could make to fix or improve companies or other things (such as Russia). Musk replied to many of these memes, reminding users that he cannot work miracles.

Listen, I can’t do miracles ok pic.twitter.com/z7dvLMUXy8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 28, 2022

Other tweets by Musk seemed more serious in nature. He sketched out his view of what a “politically neutral” platform might look like, deciding that the metric to measure platform neutrality would be outrage.

For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022

Musk also suggested that Truth Social only exists because Twitter increased content moderation, and he tweeted a meme criticizing what he views as Twitter’s left-wing bias.

Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022

pic.twitter.com/1CE7rjBrNH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 27, 2022

Based on previous statements in addition to these, it appears that one of Musk’s priorities in buying Twitter is to remove what he perceives as a left-wing bias on the platform and to make it more balanced.

Many users criticized this goal, fearing that Musk (as an owner) would amplify right-wing voices, and expressed concern that a single business oligarch holds so much power over a highly important platform for discussion and political discourse. On the opposite side, many conservatives have been praising the move in hopes that Musk's acquisition will swing the platform more in their favor.

holy fucking shit, Elon Musk is a living and breathing argument for a 90% top tax rate

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 28, 2022

Kinda hoping Elon Musk does destroy Twitter so I can have my life back.

— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 25, 2022