--- title: "Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him" description: "The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned." date: "2022-12-13" modified: "2022-12-13" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-deletes-tweet-clarifying-crowd" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "the digest" - "twitter" --- # Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Clarifying That Actually, Only Ten Percent of the Crowd Was Jeering Him ![The sign of someone who is sincerely not getting owned, is the deletion of their own tweet explaining why they were not getting owned.]() *\Image: Anadolu Agency via Getty / Futurism\* ## Petty Pedantry After [videos]() began to surface online of him [getting relentlessly booed]() during a surprise appearance at a Dave Chapelle show on a Sunday night in San Francisco, Elon Musk took to Twitter to clarify that, um, actually, he was not getting booed by the *whole* crowd — just some of them. "Technically, it was 90 percent cheers and 10 percent boos (except during quiet periods)," Musk [tweeted](), "but, still, that's a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter)." "It's almost as if I've offended SF's unhinged leftists... but nahhh," he added. A lot to unpack here, but perhaps the most eyebrow raising facet of this all is that Musk has since deleted the tweet. Why? Probably because the embarrassment of this entire situation has taken such a life of its own that Musk could feasibly start charging it for Twitter Blue. Sure, we've all tried to rationalize to ourselves or explain to others why we didn't *actually* get owned, but most of us aren't the richest and most famous billionaire on the planet with a follower count of over 121 million and counting, with every of his petulant paroxysms amplified. You can *almost* feel for the guy. ## Blood-bathos As he surges in both popularity and notoriety, Musk has found himself to be an increasingly polarizing figure, a split that he is more than willing to stoke the flames of but seems ever uncomfortable with confronting, boos included. He is, after all, someone who yearns for the public's fawning adoration seemingly more than anything. Among other factors, Musk's deleted tweet could be read as an admission of the sycophancy he immerses himself in, insulated from criticism and subject only to the abiding echoes of his own ideas — a sentiment [shared by even his friends](). All in all, the Chapelle fiasco goes to show that Elon Musk may be able to play God on Twitter — his $44 billion safe space where his rabid retinue of followers and reply guys will give praise to his every thought, word, and deed — but that doesn't always play out the same way in front of a real life crowd. And in this case, sometimes even his own Twitter crowd can't save him. **More on Elon Musk:** *[Elon Musk Rages as NASA Astronaut Calls Out His Transphobia and Conspiracy Theories]()* ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()