Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today.
It is now full of videos claiming to be from SpaceX and Elon Musk’s ugly mug.
Thing is
It’s not the first channel I’ve seen being hacked, nor is it the first to get that exact type of content spammed into it. Linus Tech Tips got hacked some time back (honestly I don’t remember how long ago, but I was already on Lemmy, so it was within the past year and change) and it had that exact type of stuff before LMG took it back.
And there was another random channel that I saw suffer the same fate some months before LTT.
My question is – Why Elon Musk? Why SpaceX/Tesla? Is Musk himself paying people to build zombie farms for him? I wouldn’t put it past him but at the same time he has the funds to not need that kind of tactic – He could astroturf by more “legit-looking” means.
Is it just because people who like Musk are more likely to fall for scams?
Idk, found myself wondering that.
Bingo.
If someone is still a fan of Elon in 2024, they’ve self selected themselves as one of the most gullible, easily-scammed people on the planet. Saves scammers a lot of time to target this demographic.
It’s the same reason scam emails don’t spell check or make the grammar more believable.
The people dumb/ignorant enough to not get caught by all the giant waving red flags are people who probably wouldn’t notice an atomic bomb detonating against their eyeball.
elon musk / 2024
Where a fat line of idiocy and the learning curve of digital currencies intersect. Wisdom level set at “infantile”.
“doge doge doge doge doge doge doge…”
“Elon’s pumping dogecoin again!”
To top it off, these people most likely mock older generations for falling for the Nigerian prince email scams.
Musk’s only talent, which I hate to admit he’s a master of, is manipulating interest in his schemes. It’s because the greedy and selfish assume that obscenely rich individuals are smarter than the rest of us, and can be trusted to make them wealthier. And he knows that.
At least Jobs delivered on most of his hyperbole. Musk is halfway between Jobs, who was competent, and Elizabeth Holmes (aka, Stephanie Wannabe Jobs,) who could not deliver. Musk was smart enough to buy Existing Productive Entities, and then manipulate perception to make himself look like Tony Stark.
Most of us have wised up.