LGBTQ+ folks and allies are outraged at pop musician Katy Perry for posting a thank you message to X owner and Tesla founder Elon Musk for sending her a Cybertruck.
“thx for the delivery,” Perry wrote, alongside a photo of herself posing in a red dress against the truck, for thousand of which have been recalled by Tesla due to issues with the accelerator pedals.
Musk is extremely anti-trans and has let anti-LGBTQ+ hate run rampant on X since taking over the company formerly known as Twitter. Perry, long considered an LGBTQ+ icon, has disappointed many by seemingly fangirling over Musk – though it has not been lost on some users that these critics are expressing their anger on a Musk-owned site.
Girl you can’t be doing this if you wanna make a comeback
https://t.co/t6DdP3qE19
— jorge (@WTFJXR63) April 23, 2024
Ewww @katyperry just crashed in my estimation of good taste.. such a trashy truck and its a musk based business so your fundamentally supporting someone who’s anti LGBTQIA, Trans and human rights… I expected better from you
– also they just recalled 4k of em for safety
— Rich Tuckwell (@TopGayer) April 24, 2024
Katy, your DeLorean Minivan is awesome, such a shame that you now support Lex Luther whose trans daughter disavowed her own father
Do Better!— Karen Musk MAGA Grievance Mgr (Clearly Parody) (@elonsbuttcrack) April 23, 2024
Since Musk bought X (formerly Twitter) for $44 billion in October 2022, hate content has proliferated on the site. Musk himself reinstated numerous right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+, and other anti-Jewish accounts that had previously been banned from the platform.
Musk has also repeated transphobic talking points and conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement Theory,” causing big-name advertisers to flee. The site’s ad revenue has decreased by 50% and it may lose another $75 million as advertisers stay away. Musk has responded by telling advertisers to “f**k off” and suing watchdog organizations that have reported on X’s hate speech problem.
The March 2023 CCDH report noted that anti-LGBTQ+ tweets accusing queer people of “grooming” children increased 119% since Musk’s acquisition of the social media network. Five of the accounts most responsible for pushing anti-LGBTQ+ groomer attacks were set to generate up to $6.4 million per year for Twitter in ad revenues, according to a March 2023 report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
source https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/lgbtq-fans-outraged-at-katy-perry-for-fangirling-over-elon-musk/
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