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48-year-old billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk appears to be losing some of his marbles. Maybe it’s a mid-life thing.
After announcing on Twitter that he was planning on “selling almost all physical possessions” and torpedoing the stock price of Tesla to the tune of $13 BILLION in value, he and his partner, 32-year-old singer Grimes, welcomed into the world their first child together – a baby boy named X Æ A-12.
X Æ A-12 Musk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2020
If you know how to pronounce that then you’re ahead of, well, everyone on the internet who has given it a shot since Musk’s son was born.
pronounced X̶̯̩̗̜̳̭͇͔͈̦͍̻̟̰͚̯̜̠̦̃͛̉̋̀̔̓͑̂̆̀̎̂̚̕ͅ ̶̞̱͚̹̩̙̙͕͎̰̬͖̒͗̇̽̅̃͗̇̍̏͐̈͌̐̈́̒̂͑̒͜͠͝Æ̵͕̻̪͕̀̽͑̈́̉͘A̷̡̬̲̩̞̓̿̊̊̾͂́̈͊͆̐̈́̒̐̇̊̿-̶̮͎̥͇͚̟̣̰͎̜͇̼̖͎̖͕̀̍̌̾͊̉̓͐̐̌ͅ1̸̢̥̰̥̬̝̘̬̲̰̳̤̉̿̓̾͊̈́͠ͅͅ2̵̧̢̛̞̳͚̩̰̬͍̱͉͓̻̓̌̀̈́̒̈́̈́̄̄͒͆͛͗̕͜͝͝ ̵͔̝̩̰͎̜͈̥̝̝̘̟͎͔͔̯̂̃̍̆̽̊͗̓́̑͛̍͆̅̊͘͠
— charizard cuck chair (@raya_thegoddess) May 5, 2020
Combining the best guesses put forth I am going with X Æ A-12 being pronounced Chi Ash Archangel Musk.
In the Greek alphabet, X is the symbol for the letter chi. Æ is pronounced “ash” in the Scandinavian alphabet. And the A-12 is for the Lockheed A-12, a CIA aircraft codenamed Archangel.
Am I right? No freaking clue. Because neither Musk nor Grimes have offered any real clarification.
In fact, the name is so bizarre not even the boy’s mom can properly explain it.
Tuesday night, Grimes did try to give it a shot, however, tweeting…
•X, the unknown variable
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent
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(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
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(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
One problem, “their” favorite aircraft is actually the SR-71 which Musk was more than happy to take to Twitter to correct her because apparently he has a death wish.
SR-71, but yes
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2020
Grimes fired back at him, tweeting, “I am recovering from surgery and barely alive so may my typos b forgiven but, damnit. That was meant to be profound.”
I am recovering from surgery and barely alive so may my typos b forgiven but, damnit. That was meant to be profound 🦔
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
“U r a powerful fairy princess,” Musk tweeted back, only using emojis instead of just saying it because he’s hip like that.
U r a powerful 🧚♀️👸
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2020
Despite Grimes’ explanation of her and Musk’s son’s unusual name, people were still very, very confused.
https://twitter.com/jaynooch/status/1257851529077407744 https://twitter.com/echolman/status/1257907941367099393 https://twitter.com/echolman/status/1257908643183255555you realize this is a human child and not an EP right
— 🦩Jay - bird world🦩 (@mascdonna) May 6, 2020
I think it sounds like the name of the main character in the story 🪐 I hope he vibes with that.
Ok, going back into the pain/ beauty reverie for sum time, just came on to add my thoughts. Peace to all 🤍-🐉🐷🐁— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
the kid is going to feed both of you to his pet shark in like six years max
— i bless the rains down in castamere (@Chinchillazllla) May 6, 2020