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Reddit is hunting for Elon Musk’s alleged secret account

Elon, what’s your username?

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In case you missed it, Elon Musk recently tweeted a request for “ur dankest memes”.

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Tsk Tsk Elon, you can’t just ask for dank memes. Dank memes must come to you.

There were some pretty great responses to the billionaire’s request, although few would qualify as a dank meme.

Now Reddit, home of the dankest of memes, has decided to troll Musk by posting memes about him assuming he has a fake account and is monitoring them.

Or, you know, maybe they don’t actually believe that and they’re just having fun pretending. When it comes to Reddit, and especially Reddit meme groups, it’s really impossible to know.

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Hi Elon
byu/Weak_Tomato inmemes

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Elon musk is probably watching this meme right now
by indankmemes

Elon Musk rn
by indankmemes
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[deleted by user]
by inPewdiepieSubmissions
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I AM NOT ELON MUSK……BUT AM I.
byu/Bazith inPewdiepieSubmissions

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r/dankmemes searching for Elon Musk’s reddit account (2018, colourised)
by infakehistoryporn

Some people seem to think he’s hiding behind that not-so-subtle username ElongatedMuskrat, an account that’s been around since December of 2014.

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[deleted by user]
by indankmemes

Muuuuuusk
byu/Rtful_Aaron inmemes
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EEEEEElon
byu/Rtful_Aaron inmemes
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This is older than Musk’s official Reddit account, which was created in January of 2015. That account hasn’t been active in over two years, though.

So what’s really going on here? On the one hand, it’s hard to believe that the CEO of a company that makes spaceships has the time to sit around on Reddit monitoring it for dank memes. Then again, he can’t seem to shut up on Twitter and he’s pretty much the definition of eccentric. If Musk actually is active on Reddit using a “secret” account, he’ll probably let us know soon.

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