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Yes, That’s a Tesla Cybertruck Towing a Giant Statue of Elon Musk, and The Story is Worse Than It Sounds (archive.ph)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/weirdnews

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The cult of personality surrounding Elon Musk appears to have reached a new peak. ... a giant bronze statue of Elon Musk has been spotted being transported on a flatbed towed by a Tesla Cybertruck.

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The giant Elon Musk statue was spotted in Brownsville, Texas, where Elon Musk's space venture, SpaceX, is building Starbase, a launch pad and rocket factory that will produce the next-generation SpaceX Starship rocket.

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There is a lot of excitement for SpaceX and Elon Musk in the area and a group calling itself ElonRWA appears to have set up shop in Brownsville, and this group is behind the Elon Musk statue.

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ElonRWA took possession of the original drawing of Elon Musk and turned it into an NFT (non-fungible token). After the image is turned into an NFT, you can now buy and own a part of the digital asset.

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the giant Elon Musk statue being towed by a Cybertruck is an attempt to gain notoriety and direct people to purchase a fraction of the Elon Musk drawing NFT and own a piece of the meme.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't want to bother looking, but I'm going to assume it's not a statue of this beautiful look?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's a good thing that photo was successfully deleted from the Internet. Don't want somebody making a 20 ft bust of it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hope someone steals it and melts it for something useful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And what about the statue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's ugly but it's also stupid.