--- title: "Elon Musk Fans Think His Meme Tweets Are Teasing a New Tesla" description: "Some Elon Musk followers are suggesting that the CEO's jokey Twitter feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle." date: "2019-08-05" modified: "2019-08-05" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-meme-teasing-new-tesla" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Tesla" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "model b" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Fans Think His Meme Tweets Are Teasing a New Tesla ![Some Elon Musk followers are suggesting that the CEO's jokey Twitter feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle.]() *Image Credit: NASA Kennedy via Flickr/Skeeze via Pixabay/Tag Hartman-Simkins \Image: NASA Kennedy via Flickr/Skeeze via Pixabay/Tag Hartman-Simkins\* ## Meme Lord Anybody who follows Elon Musk on Twitter knows that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is an [avid meme lord](). But now, some Musk-watchers are suggesting that his jokey feed could be his way of foreshadowing the debut of a new Tesla vehicle. In particular, [*Business Insider* noticed](), they're pointing to a run of memes about bees as a sign that a "Tesla Model B" could be in the works. ## Bee Movie One joke, which [caught flak]() in the British press, compared Queen Elizabeth II's colorful outfits to those of the Teletubbies. But Musk fans fixated on the use of a "bee" emoji in the tweets — to riff on "queen bee" and "teletub-bee" — as a sign that a Tesla Model B could be in development. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1157972610761789441 Another tweet the Elon fans took as evidence: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1157953453341270016 And one more: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1157898491122847745 ## S3XYB One of Musk's [longstanding Tesla eccentricities]() is that the names of the company's four announced lines — Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y — spell out the [slangy adjective]() "S3XY." It's not clear how a hypothetical Model B would fit into that — though Musk could conceivably use the unannounced vehicle to exhort his follower**s** to "B S3XY." **READ MORE:** [Elon Musk tweeted a bizarre meme of the Queen, and it got fans speculating about a new Tesla Model B]() \[*Business Insider*\] **More on Elon Musk:** *[People Are Begging Elon Musk to Drill Holes in Their Skulls]()* ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()