Elon Musk, who has recently been on the agenda with an offer to buy the whole of Twitter, also enjoys teasing other companies from time to time. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla companies made one of these taunts again today. Musk’s target today was Netflix, which announced its first loss of subscribers in over a decade.
Elon Musk responded to the news shared by Slashdot with the headline “Netflix stocks crashed 20% after reporting the first loss of subscribers in more than 10 years”. Musk’s response was harsher than the Netflix CEO’s statement about the crash.
Elon Musk shared why Netflix stocks ‘dropped’:
“Awakened mind virus makes Netflix unwatchable.”
Elon Musk, with this statement, symbolized the main reason for Netflix’s loss of subscribers as the ‘awakened mind virus’, while this comment was taken in a different direction by many. While it can be understood that the comment is generally a negative comment about Netflix content, it was understood that what Musk really wanted to say was that he was complaining about the politically correct content of Netflix:
- “Just It’s not Netflix. Movies, games, dramas in general are all covered in this year’s trash ‘woke’ trend, for fear of offending a green-haired freak next to the ban button.”
- “Correct.”
- “Can they please at least *mostly* do sci-fi/fantasy that is about sci-fi/fantasy?”
What is the “woke” trend?
The Woke trend, which started in the early 2010s and has become more widespread today, means “warning against racial prejudice and discrimination”. The trend has now come to encompass a wider awareness of social inequalities such as sexism, and is also used as an acronym for leftist ideas involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and slavery reparation for Africa.
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