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  Best way to understand it is probably through the lens of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
context: I'd love it if they actually sent him a certificate as the official record holder. >
  
  I think they usually need you to do a thing twice before they certify it. >
  
  That's not true. You do, however, have to have the attempt witnessed and follow strict rules on proving it.
  Source: Proposed a new record category to Guinness, had it approved, received the official rules, but never attempted the record. >
  
  For some records you need to prove it*
  For some categories they'll take your word for it if you're willing to just pay the fee >
  
  Todd Rogers enters the chat… >
  
  Tommy Tallorico too
  For anyone lacking context just look up the Hbomberguy video on the origin of the Roblox Oof sound effect. If that sounds dumb and like something not worth watching... Spoilers, but it ends with a dude losing his guineas world records, ruining his professional reputation, and now post video being looked into for defrauding investors in his multi million dollar gaming company start up >
  
  
  Spoilers, but it ends with a dude losing his guineas world records, 
  
  Did he lose them? I thought one was reworded and that was it. It's been awhile since I watched it, though. >
  
  So that was part of it. He was claiming he had 7, but 2 of them had been renamed and he was treating them as unique records (so 2 became 4 in his story). But there was also a record struck from guineas's database and was no longer on their site. 
  Hbomberguy (I'm realizing I dont know his name) said his producer Kat had reached out to them to see if they had a source they had been trying to track down, they said they did not, and then when Hbomberguy went to get screenshots of the 3 records that had been displayed on the website only 2 were left >
  
  Thanks for refreshing my memory! The entire video was a trip. >
  
  Just rewatched it last night with a friend over discord. They thought I was exagerating when I said the video spirals out of control, but before it really event went nuts at the 30 minute mark they were hooked
  Also if you're interested in videos about random sound effects check out Defunctland's video about the Disney Channel Theme Song. Doesnt go insane in the same way Hbomberguy's does, but it shares similiar themes and is about trying to figure out who composed said theme. >
  
  Does this qualify him to be a mod at wallstreetbets? >
  
  I’d personally like to thank Elon for taking the last six months to dispel the myth that he’s a genius engineer inventor and to prove he’s just a trust fund baby. 
  How people didn’t figure out he’s completely full of shit with the Vegas loop thing years ago is beyond me. >
  
  
  How people didn’t figure out he’s completely full of shit with the Vegas loop thing years ago is beyond me
  
  The even more puzzling part is that Vegas is spending more money to expand the loop. >
  
  Sunk cost fallacy >
  
  Buys Guinness World Record .......removes his name. >
  
  With what money? 😆 >
  
  I know you're joking, but this clown still has more than you or I will likely ever see in our lifetimes.
  With an estimated remaining net worth of 140.1 billion dollars, he could lose 99.9% of it, then another 99% of the remainder after that and still have over a million dollars left. >
  
  He’s still on the hook to pay for his Twitter titanic. Ofc he’s loaded, but his recent “investments” aren’t helping. >
  
  I thought he'd already paid the full $44 billion for TWTR on 28 October?  Are there other payments that need to be made? >
  
  I don’t have a clue as to the current state of his debts re: Twitter, but he reportedly paid some 16 billion from selling TSLA stock, received about 5 billion in investments to be paid in stock, and got around 13 billion in bank loans, which are somehow supposed to be paid back by Twitter.  Still leaves 10 billion of unaccounted for so I don’t know what’s going on there.
  Point overall being that he paid 44 billion, well over market value, for a company that isn’t profitable.  Has likely made the company even more unprofitable.  Still owes people money, and his only real option it seems is to do the last thing he wants, which is to sell his TSLA stock to pay his debts.  
  Not to mention that this whole thing going nuclear appears to be affecting investors confidence in Tesla and other companies he “runs”, which is basically causes a downward spiral for his net worth. >
  
  I love all the goofy-ass expressions on Musk's face the news media are able to get for these articles. >
  
  The stupid rubber faced twat just looks like this all the time >
  
  Honestly every time he's aware he's on a picture he seems to turn into an over the top actor. As if public face Musk was a character he plays up without the acting talent. And especially to look aloof and in control in a badass way. >
  
  I don't like making fun of things people can't co trol but he really does just look so weird. Like he is wearing a human suit. >
  
  
  Like he is wearing a human suit.
  
  It makes sense to me. "Humans" experience empathy and a conscience. Someone with empathy/conscience wouldn't be able to hoard billions of dollars while so much of the world suffers. Ergo, billionaires aren't human.
  But I'm open to being proven wrong... >
  
  Imagine being able to lose $182 billion and still have a net worth >
  
  Still have a net worth bigger than 99.99999% of people that ever lived. >
  
  It’s generally estimated that about 115bn people have ever lived.
  115bn - 99.99999% of 115bn is 11,500. His current net worth is $143bn. Based on some lists that try to adjust wealth to 2023 dollars, we can estimate he is still the ~15th richest person in all of human history.
  So basically you’re missing a few nines. >
  
  Da-amn. >
  
  You want a daaaaamn imagine making a million dollars a week since the birth of Jesus. That's his wealth.
  52x2023 = 105,196. That multiple times 1 million is 105,196,000,000. That's less than he still has AND less than he has lost. >
  
  He can lose 182 billion dollars, and it will have no tangible effect on his standard of living. 
  What I’m saying is that we should tax the rich. >
  
  This is exactly it. If the government tried to tax even 10% of his net worth he would have tried to burn the world to the ground, but he makes some horrible ego driven choices and he just keeps going because at the end of the day even losing more than half his net worth does virtually nothing to him besides his ego >
  
  Congratulations to Elon Musk on this major accomplishment! >
  
  This is by far the biggest thing he's actually accomplished on his own. >
  
  I like to think we're all helping. >
  
  His social value has plummeted even more. >
  
  Even his social value was over inflated. >
  
  His pr department curated this real life tech bro Tony stark persona. Then he started smoking his own supply and thought he was Tony stark and was smarter than anyone in the room and fired his pr department. >
  
  Seriously, all he had to do was shut the fuck up and be mysterious and he couldn't do that >
  
  Very true.  But he's too needy. He's proven himself to be an epic attention-craving pathological drama queen.  Without an audience to play to? Horrors! That would be a worst-case scenario to someone in need of constant attention. He even paid and suckered others to contribute billions to be the star of his own social media platform. 
  I love that a Tesla investor ($3 billion) calling for him to step down or appoint a new Twittet CEO pointed out that Musk invested just $200 million, but has extracted $40 billion out of Tesla since November 2021, despite promising a couple of times he wouldn't be selling more shares. Share prices dropped along with his personal wealth, and some investors, even though they believe in Tesla, are pissed off. Almost makes me wonder if Musk gleefully thinks, "Suckers!" each time he does it. >
  
  Even with that great a loss, he is still world's second richest person. Wtf. >
  
  This is why all the smart rich people employ people to run their things, and “have ideas”. Because the super rich are generally some of the dumbest, most delusional people. >
  
  It's almost like antagonizing hundreds of millions of people for the lulz is a bad idea for a business man. Weird! >
  
  "Liberals are infected by the Woke Mind Virus! Also, please liberals, buy my cars!" >
  
  It is really odd that he goes out of his way to troll a demographic that is decidedly much more likely to buy his cars because of their values. 
  Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of conservatives out there that are environmentally conscious, but on the over hand, I've never seen a self identified liberal rolling coal. >
  
  I wouldn't try to view his actions through a rational lens.
  He's an insecure manchild and an attention whore who lucked his way into the hundred billion dollar club. Money doesn't mean shit to people in that club. He wants to dominate every news cycle and conversation to massage his ego and is prepared to burn every cent he has to achieve that. If Tesla becomes a casualty of his antics, I highly doubt he cares.
  And it's not like he can't afford it. He could lose 99% of his net worth, then 99% of the remaining 1%, and still be richer than over 99% of the planet.
  Anyway, a lot of Tesla owners don't do it for the environment. They do it because it's a techy car with a big screen and cool software, and/or because the cars are very fast (as are most EVs). There absolutely are right-wing EV buyers out there. I've personally seen Teslas with Trump bumper stickers in parts of the US.