After videos began to surface online of him getting relentlessly booed during a surprise appearance at a Dave Chapelle show on a Sunday night in San Francisco, Musk took to Twitter to clarify that he was not getting booed by the whole crowd, just some of them.
"Actually, it was 90 percent cheers and 10 percent boos, but, still, that's a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life," Musk said.
He said it was almost as if he had offended SF's left-wingers.
There is a lot to unpack here, but perhaps the most eyebrow raising aspect is that Musk has deleted his account. What's the reason? The embarrassment of this situation has taken a life of it's own, so Musk could potentially charge for it.
We've all tried to rationalize to ourselves or explain to others why we weren't owned, but most of us aren't the richest and most famous billionaire on the planet.
It's almost like you feel for him.
Musk has found himself to be an increasingly divisive figure, a split that he is more than willing to stoke the flames of but seems uncomfortable with confronting. He is a person who yearns for the public's admiration.
Musk's deleted message could be seen as an admission of the sycophancy he immerses himself in, insulated from criticism and subject only to the echoes of his own ideas.
The Chapelle fiasco shows that Musk may be able to play God on social media, but that doesn't mean he's always right. Sometimes even his own followers can't save him.
The NASA Astronaut called out Musk's transphobia and conspiracy theories.
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