The puzzling billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday changed his nickname on the character from the movie Gladiator.
Close to the president Donald Trump of which he became an important advisor, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX also swapped his profile photo for an image of “Pepe the Frog”, a popular cartoon character associated with the far right during Donald’s first election Trump and described as a “sign of hatred” by theAnti-Defamation League (ADL). And to the point that his designer Matt Furie had, symbolically, decided to kill her in May 2017.
As usual, Elon Muskthe richest man on the planet, who bought Twitter to rename it X in 2022, gave no explanation for these changes which caused the buzz. His new pseudonym may be an allusion to Maximus Decimus Meridius – the Roman general played by Russell Crowe in Gladiator in 2000 – and “kek”, an expression frequently used by far-right Internet users and many trolls to replace “lol”.
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