Tech billionaire Elon Musk and alt-pop singer Grimes surprised their fanbases on Monday by walking the red carpet together at the Met Gala.
The decidedly couple-y gesture came just hours after Page Six first reported the pair might be romantically involved. It seems the two met in a deeply 2018 way: The 46-year-old Tesla CEO was going to make a joke about AI on Twitter, and did a quick keyword search beforehand to make sure nobody had already made the same joke. It turns out somebody had—Grimes, three years ago. Musk apparently struck up a conversation with the 30-year-old “California” singer about their shared interest, and the rest is history.
“Grimes said this was the first time in three years that anyone understood the joke,” a source told Page Six. “They were both poking fun at AI.”
https://twitter.com/mekosoff/status/993612721273933824
Despite that You’ve Got Mail meet-cute, fans on Twitter are convinced this coupling is further proof that we’re inhabiting a dark timeline. Jokes about the unlikely duo trended throughout the evening, and really picked up once they appeared on the red carpet together (with Grimes wearing a choker shaped like the Tesla logo).
https://twitter.com/max_read/status/993613462571020288
elon musk and grimes is so damn cursed it’s like when my friend’s dad started dating her volleyball teammate right after he divorced her mom
— vampire workday (@imbobswaget) May 8, 2018
should’ve been a livestream of grimes’ exes finding out
— darcie (@333333333433333) May 8, 2018
I would pay real money to listen to ONE conversation between Elon Musk and Grimes
— Veronica de Souza (@HeyVeronica) May 8, 2018
Grimes wearing a Tesla choker at the #MetGala for Elon Musk is the modern version of Angelina Jolie wearing Billy Bob Thornton’s blood in a vial around her neck pic.twitter.com/MFryNhv2xX
— Shira Tarlo (@shiratarlo) May 8, 2018
where were you when you learned about elon musk and grimes
— helen (@helen) May 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/contrachloe/status/993631961062273030
https://twitter.com/SkreechyBat/status/993619309988601857
yall know elon musk is only dating grimes because he been wanting to fuck an alien so bad
— bloot (@ghoulsoprano) May 7, 2018
Grimes is reportedly the only woman Musk is following on Twitter at the moment. Ah, true, normal love.
