Watching Elon Musk’s daily life has many people reacting like the mom in The Babadook — i.e. frantically screaming “WHY CAN’T YOU BE NORMAL?!”


As one of the richest people in the world, you would think Musk would be content to just sit on a beach somewhere and drink Mai Tais. Instead, however, we’re becoming ever-more aware of the fact that he spends his days ruining Twitter and making cars that don’t work.


He also, as documented in a recent lawsuit, pretends to be a baby on the internet. No, really.



For some background, Musk is currently being sued by a 22-year-old Jewish man named Ben Brody, who alleges that Musk promoted a false conspiracy theory linking him to a neo-Nazi brawl.


We don’t need to get into why Brody thinks he has a fairly strong case (for one, “Brody wasn’t even in the same state when the June 24th brawl occurred,” writes HuffPost). Instead, we should just look at Musk’s deposition as part of the trial, which was an absolute disaster.



Along with not really understanding who is suing him and why, Musk took the deposition to reveal an interesting fact about himself: He ran an account where he pretended to be his own toddler.


While he claims the account was just “for testing,” this revelation confirms previous suspicions from Motherboard that the account was linked to Musk. On this account, Musk made posts saying things like, “I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun,” while asking MicroStrategy executive chairman and Bitcoin promoter Michael Saylor if he liked “Japanese girls.”



In theory, I don’t have a problem with a guy pretending to be a toddler online as a joke. Well, I do, but at the end of the day, it’s not that big of a deal. But if you’re one of the richest dudes on the planet, I would hope you have better things to do with your time than post conspiracies and make “I’m baby” jokes.


I guess no amount of money can stop a shitposter from being a shitposter.