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When Elon Musk goes out in a blaze of rapid unscheduled disassembly, as his company SpaceX likes to quip, how will be remembered? A centibillionaire genius who brought humanity to the stars? Or a weird egomaniac who bought an entire social media site so he could blather racist conspiracy theories, salivate over AI waifus, and build a Hitler-praising chatbot that glazes him at all costs?
It’s the latter, less-than-illustrious track record that had X users believing that Musk may have been secretly puppetting the account of his mother, Maye Musk, all along.
As funny as it would be, though, we’re not convinced.
The gleeful conspiracy theories were fueled by a now-deleted tweet made by Maye Musk’s account which was responding to another tweet Elon made about his grandmother, who was “a housekeeper in England,” he claimed.
“Your mom told me she was cleaning toilets in a Liverpool boarding house as a child,” wrote Maye Musk, seemingly referring to Elon’s mother in the third person despite ostensibly being Elon’s mother. “When I met her in 1966, she was sewing linings for a furrier in a small windowless room behind the store.”
One confused replier asked what was on everyone’s mind.
“Aren’t you his mom,” the user wrote.
Many saw this as a sign that Elon was behind the post, with theories purporting that he intended to write while masquerading as his dad, Errol Musk.
While Musk probably doesn’t need any more defending than he already gets, that theory is probably bunk. As observers pointed out, it’s more likely that Maye meant to write something like “your grandmom” or “your father’s mom,” and not “your mom.” Errol’s mother was an Englishwoman from Liverpool, just as the original tweet describes. Maye is not; she was born in Canada and grew up in South Africa.
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