SAN DIEGO, CA — After 20 agonizing minutes of silence, a 29-year-old freelance UX designer has begun the emotional journey of accepting that Elon Musk may never like, retweet, or even accidentally acknowledge his post calling the billionaire “a meme lord and a misunderstood genius.”
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“I just thought we had something,” whispered the freelancer, staring at his screen like a widowed wife waiting for a telegram from war.
The tweet, which included a low-effort meme of Musk Photoshopped onto Iron Man’s body alongside the caption “Real ones build rockets AND freedom,” was posted at 2:03 a.m. on a Wednesday. Despite tagging @elonmusk directly and including #MarsDaddy and #Dogefather, the designer has received no interaction—other than a single “like” from an account with a profile picture of a frog smoking a vape.
He initially held out hope.
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“He usually likes dank stuff. Maybe he’s just, like, in a board meeting? Or mining lithium?” he said at minute 6.
By minute 12, however, signs of grief began to appear. He started editing the tweet for better engagement, swapped in a GIF, and even considered deleting and reposting. By minute 18, he’d descended into full existential collapse, Googling, “How to get noticed by Elon,” followed by “What if I’m not meme-worthy?”