r/technology • u/RunDNA • Nov 15 '24

Social Media Stephen King leaves X, describing atmosphere as "too toxic"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/15/stephen-king-quits-x-atmosphere-too-toxic
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u/FreezingRobot Nov 15 '24

One of my favorite Elon-era things on Twitter was King posting something, and then Elon being a reply guy begging for attention. It started with King saying something mean back to him, but then he just started ignoring him. Must have driven Elon nuts.

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u/calculatingintruder Nov 15 '24

Being ignored by Stephen King on X probably hurts more than any horror novel he could write

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u/Holovoid Nov 15 '24

I think I saw something like Elon has tagged Stephen King's @ like 75 times this year or something. It might have even been a shorter timespan than that.

And King just completely ignores it.

I get why he's leaving the site, the CEO is a freak loser who is obsessed with him

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u/SamDewCan Nov 15 '24

It's funny because I ran into Stephen King walking out of the grocery store a couple weeks ago. Man was wearing his old letterman jacket and was going in to cash in a lottery scratcher. He couldn't be less bothered, he's just out here vibing

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u/DroptheShadowArt Nov 15 '24

King just wants to read books, hang out with his corgis, watch the Red Sox, and not get ruled by a fascist government.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '24

Don’t we all?

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u/Reach-Nirvana Nov 15 '24

lmfao, cashing in a lottery scratcher when he has a net worth of half a billion dollars. What a legend.

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u/SamDewCan Nov 16 '24

When you see him in public he literally looks like just any typical old guy in Maine. He's extremely unpretentious and does really enjoy the small town, simple life

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u/Holovoid Nov 15 '24

Missed opportunity to say he was in a blue chambray workshirt lmao

But yeah I doubt he really cares that much. He posts a lot but doesn't strike me as someone terminally online and deranged like Elon.

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u/SamDewCan Nov 16 '24

The letterman jacket is why I love him tho. I try to catch up with him whenever I see him and he's just so 'normal' for lack of better words. If you didn't know he was a famous author/celebrity, you wouldn't know it.

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u/spacemanspliff-42 Nov 15 '24

Creeped out the guy that gives us all the creeps.

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u/MrTripl3M Nov 15 '24

I believe there is the occasional very spicy insult from King to Musky without tagging him because King knows Space Leon is a bitch and checks anything he writes.

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u/ScCavas Nov 15 '24

It was 25 times

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u/Holovoid Nov 15 '24

Gotcha.

Yeah, deranged

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u/all-i-do-is-dry-fast Nov 15 '24

Unpopular opinion: Stephen king is a freak loser who writes psychotic books.

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u/Holovoid Nov 15 '24

Eh he's written some great books and lots of not-so-great books.

I don't think he's a freak loser, he's just a libbed up elderly New England man who used to do way too many drugs.

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u/IcyAlienz Nov 15 '24

Hell even I've gotten replies from Stephen King on there. Shows how low the bar is and how Elon is some how still under it

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u/rcanhestro Nov 15 '24

it's also funny that twitter blue costs 8$ because of stephen king.

it was originally priced at 20$, but stephen king was like "i'm not paying for that", and Elon countered with "how about 8$?".

and that's how it costs 8$

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u/StovardBule Nov 15 '24

And King still rejected it. He only had it because Elon imposed it on a load of celebrities because so many of them said they weren't paying for it as a non-badge of honour.

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u/ketheriel Nov 15 '24

I was a huge fan when Elon was floating a paid membership to Twitter and King saying he wouldn't pay for a membership, and then Elon trying to negotiate down the price to keep King there.

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u/SnooDrawings3621 Nov 15 '24

Then he forced a free one on him and King clarified to everyone he didn't pay for it

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u/KillerZaWarudo Nov 15 '24

Musk is a simp for King lol. King hating him must have struck a nerve, its like that kid begging for his dad attention

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I really wonder if men's mental health was in a better shape decades ago and both Trump and Musk went to therapy, we wouldn't have this shitshow right now.

Being plunged into fascism by dudes with daddy issues is just embarrassing.

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u/TreAwayDeuce Nov 15 '24

That's kinda the worst part. It wouldn't be so bad if they thrust us into fascism and were legit badasses that were actually charasmatic but no, they are weak ass weirdos that have some vague idea of cool schmeared all over their faces and personas but because they are billionaires, it doesn't matter. Their weird phony bullshit is reality because they bought and we paid for that reality.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

Lets just boof ketamine and adderall instead

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u/ViperB Nov 16 '24

Finally someone calling it out too. I'm so tired of these miserable psychotic man children and the MAGA cult claiming everyone they don't like is mentally ill. Meanwhile after hearing either one or thier cult talk for 5mins I hear more mentally deranged things than I've heard from any one else. 

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u/beatignyou4evar Nov 15 '24

I respect that musk puts all the nonsense aside and is still a fan and still thinks highly of Kings work. That's called being the bigger man .

If stephen king didn't agree with me I'd still read his books. I know he doesn't. We dont share the same political view. I wouldn't rub it in his face if I had 10 mins to talk to the guy 😅 gotta separate the art and artist sometimes unfortunately

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u/Little_Orange_Bottle Nov 15 '24

You ever had a stalker?

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u/beatignyou4evar Nov 15 '24

Do you know what a stalker is ? 😆

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u/Little_Orange_Bottle Nov 15 '24

Sure I do. I also know how to answer questions. Good day moron

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Nov 15 '24

I'm honestly surprised Elmo didn't straight-up fake replies from King, he has backend access and a fragile enough ego

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

u/spez loves editing comments

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u/ennh11 Nov 15 '24

I feel like spez did have a fault for Trump's first election. For a time, I was really hoping spez was going to prison for this.

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u/Barnyard_Rich Nov 15 '24

I'm never on twitter, so I miss all these things, but I did read an article about all the times Musk tried so hard to Taylor Swift to notice him over the years, and that she never even acknowledged him once.

Love that

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I'm pretty sure all of Elon Musk's idols absolutely despise the guy.

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u/yup_its_Jared Nov 17 '24

BUT YOU CANT MUTE ME!! I’LL FOREVER AND EV-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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u/beatignyou4evar Nov 15 '24

Negative attention is still attention . Seems like king has trump and Elon stuck in his head on repeat. Probably why he finally left Twitter he realized he's driving himself crazy focusing on this shit so much

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u/AccidentDouble9762 Nov 16 '24

What an idiotic take.