Memes of The Great X-Scape: Trump Musk Interview

The 40 minute delay incident sparked a meme frenzy online, with X users poking fun at the situation.

The highly anticipated interview between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter) was delayed by 40 minutes due to technical glitches. Musk attributed the issue to a massive DDOS attack, saying, "There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later."
 

𝕏 engineer in charge of spaces right now pic.twitter.com/qkW7KKqtkV

— Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79) August 13, 2024

The incident sparked a meme frenzy online, with users poking fun at the situation. Many took to Twitter to share their experiences and reactions to the technical difficulties. Some users were unable to log in and soon "#crashed" and "DDOS" started to trend on the microblogging platform.

It’s not just the Trump and Elon space that’s down

They crashed the whole Spaces network on X 🤣 pic.twitter.com/WbcNhGuM3m

— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) August 13, 2024

Several users launched a meme fest, with some joking about the reliability of X's Spaces feature. One user tweeted, "The best part about Twitter Spaces is how well it works." Another added, "I'm in the Spaces. It hasn't started yet. It seems the whole world is trying to get into this Spaces lol, so technical difficulties are expected."

 

BREAKING: Internet pic.twitter.com/jR9jrzttSB

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 13, 2024

 

 

The incident also sparked some criticism, with one user writing, "A cyberattack isn't quite the same as a 'glitch'." Another user commented, "I was really hoping they were well prepared for this one. Would have been a really good look for X. I'm definitely disappointed and I won't be listening to the replay. Spaces just aren't special as reruns. They need to figure that out."

How it started How it’s going

From Fat Elvis to Donald Duck in less than 24 hrs pic.twitter.com/tgKEhZdz8J

— Mariana (@pipitaqueens) August 13, 2024

Despite the technical issues, the interview eventually went ahead, with some users commenting that it was "on now and going smoothly." 

Oh snap!!!

The headline for The Guardian went hard at both slurry Donald Duck and Elon for their weird X interview.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/LmZHMm12gT

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) August 13, 2024