This is a deliberate misrepresentation on his part. What he’s been doing is conflating impressions with views. Every time you scroll past a tweet on your feed or a video plays for two seconds, that counts as an impression, and he’s treating every one as if they read the whole tweet or watched the whole video, and he’s acting as if every impression represents a unique viewer and not one person scrolling past the same post 50 times.
I earnestly expect him to claim at some point that 11 billion people watched the latest Tucker Carlson video, “not including the bots”.
It’s actually slightly worse than that - impressions and video view counts are different. Here are the definitions from X/Twitter Help…
Impression: “Times a user is served a post in timeline or search results”
Video View count: “The main X video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view.”
I also like the “… and rising” part. I guess we’re supposed to believe that new users are flocking in droves to this mismanaged total shambles which is now mainly only attractive to Nazis. Only Twitter insiders have any idea what the real numbers are, and I’m sure that even Elmo, as a petulant and vindictive man-child, isn’t getting them. All this information about massive numbers of new users comes to you from the same guy who blamed the Jews for the drop in revenue.
Elmo is truly a complicated man; he blathers on about AI being the second biggest threat to humanity behind underpopulation, yet names one of his children after the Elfish word for artificial intelligence (at least according to Grimes). He talks with Netanyahu about how to harness AI while mitigating its risks to destroy humanity while blaming the Jews for being behind sabotaging his business ventures and being the number one cause of antisemitism.
Good call, he’s already claiming the number of views of Tucker Carlson on Twitter exceeds the population of the United States.
Elmo likes humanity - it’s just that he read Dune when he was 14 or so, took the first chapter way too seriously, and has managed to build a worldview around believing that most homo sapiens either aren’t real (cf his obsession with simulation theory, The Matrix, and “NPCs”) or don’t count as fully human (apartheid).
Apparently it’s a 1968 painting called “The Ark of Space” by sci-fi illustrator Shigeru Komatsuzaki. But I don’t know where it was originally published.
Elmo probably heard from MTG that the Joos have space lasers they use to control the weather. If only the Joos would use their space lasers for good to prevent natural disasters instead of starting wildfires with them.
