---
title: "Elon Musk Got a Strange Haircut and We Gotta Say, “Yikes”"
description: "The billionaire was spotted after landing in Miami sporting a hairdo that can only be described as \"terminally divorced.\""
date: "2021-12-03"
modified: "2021-12-03"
authors:
  - name: "Tony Ho Tran"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ttran"
url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-haircut"
categories:
  - "Elon Musk"
  - "Future Society"
  - "The Industrialists"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "hair cut"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "tesla"
---

# Elon Musk Got a Strange Haircut and We Gotta Say, “Yikes”

![The billionaire was spotted after landing in Miami sporting a hairdo that can only be described as "terminally divorced."](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/elon-musk-strange-haircut.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images\</em\>*

Welp. It looks like SpaceX founder Elon Musk actually went into a barbershop and said, "[Give me the Macklemore haircut](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLyutp2iJU&t=63s>)."

On Thursday, the billionaire was spotted after landing in Miami sporting a hairdo that can only be described as "terminally divorced." Musk was on his way to attend Art Basel Miami, a hoity-toity art fair, with his son in tow, [*The Daily Mail* reports](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10268511/Elon-Musk-sports-wild-Mohawk-touches-Miami-son.html>)*.*

https://twitter.com/TonyHoWasHere/status/1466774608103804928

Yeesh.

Social media was quick to jump on the meme fodder, with many instantly roasting the 50-year-old Tesla CEO for getting a haircut that's a bit out of date even for Gen Z TikTok influencers.

https://twitter.com/doloresquintana/status/1466685363024326657

https://twitter.com/TravisAllen02/status/1466587977581088769

https://twitter.com/Scotchgard_Bong/status/1466582715453427712

https://twitter.com/RealPolitikDude/status/1466622703310417923

Musk’s hairdo even spurred comparisons to cartoon characters:

https://twitter.com/TheFlyingDJ2/status/1466758343666634755

As well as iconic movie characters:

https://twitter.com/monkeyboyplay/status/1466530858869805062

And even moments in history:

https://twitter.com/bgrahamdisciple/status/1384634222682460170

On a [post in the subreddit r/Pics](<https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r7i6c9/looks_like_even_the_richest_man_in_the_world_can/>), folks piled on the billionaire, with [one user quipping](<https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r7i6c9/comment/hmzrf22/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3>) that he "looks like every 14 year old I see getting dropped off at the mall."

"He’s a Peaky Blinder now," [another user joked](<https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r7i6c9/comment/hn02w2x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3>).

"He paid good money for those hair implants too," [another added](<https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r7i6c9/comment/hmzk2d7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3>), referencing [Musk’s past baldness](<https://imgur.com/a/QuGTi5O>).

Many made more comparisons to a famous Gary Oldman role**,** with [one user saying](<https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/r7i6c9/comment/hmzivng/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3>), "He looks like Zorg from 'The Fifth Element.'"

It’s a bold choice for the richest man in the world. You’d think he’d be able to afford a haircut that’s more, um, flattering. As with all bad haircuts, though, it’ll grow out, Elon. Don’t worry.

Unless, of course, it *is* just a hairpiece. If that’s the case, he might want to swap it out from something that’s a bit less Big Mid-Life Crisis Energy.

**More on Elon:** [*A Day Before the Bankruptcy Leak, Musk Quietly Hinted at Taking SpaceX Public*](<https://futurism.com/bankruptcy-musk-hinted-spacex-public>)

## Author
Tony Tran is a former reporter for Futurism, and now an editor at the Daily Beast. His work has been seen in Playboy, HuffPost, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. He lives in Chicago where he frequently plans tabletop gaming sessions for his friends.