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  Seriously, all he had to do was shut the fuck up and be mysterious and he couldn't do that
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. >
  
  Best way to understand it is probably through the lens of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. >
  
  Who gives a flying fuck. Get this asshole out of the spotlight. >
  
  I'm torn between wanting to forget Musk exists, and wanting to see him fail miserably. On the one hand, I'm sick of seeing his face every fucking day. On the other hand, Asshole-Icarus flew too close to the sun and it's been a delight to see his wings fall apart.
  It's still better than a few years ago when every news article was about a certain orange guy. There was no schadenfreude to those stories to make them worthwhile. >
  
  The issue I have is even when he’s failing miserably, he’s still so rich that it really doesn’t matter that he lost all that money. The amount of greed that goes into wanting more after having so much is astonishing. The fact that him and other billionaires could make a real positive impact on humanity, not through their business efforts, but by using their excess to make life on this planet better for all. >
  
  I absolutely agree. Being reminded of fuckers like him makes me feel a mixture of anger, hatred, and sorrow. I don't want to be an angry, hate-filled, sad person. I'd much prefer to hear news about... well, almost anything else at this point. Every day I wake up, and there's something about musky-stink on here. The schadenfreude makes it palatable, but still. It would be nice to go one day without being reminded that people like this exist. >
  
  You know, all he had to do was let his smart, creative, well vetted people run his businesses and come up with engineering solutions, and he could have rolled in both money and adoration all the way to his grave.  But no, he actually started to believe his own hype and decided he was a brilliant inventor and savvy business person, and not just a rich kid with a big bank account. >
  
  This is it! If he was clever he could have his experienced people run the companies and he could still be the “front man” claiming some of the credit. Instead his ego took over and he thought “how hard could this ceo role actually be?” And the rest is history. >
  
  Whatever, wake me up when Elon does something constructive with his money - like redistribute it.  Buy up and protect rainforest or something. >
  
  I'm not a fan of Musk but if I lost $182 billion but still had $142 billion I don't know how much it would bother me. >
  
  A lot I guess since that’s a 56% decrease. >
  
  At a certain point you simply have enough money to do whatever you want. There's no quality of life hits when you still have a hundred billion dollars up your sleeve. The only thing hurting is his ego, which is admittedly very important for a self obsessed fuckwit, but he's not suffering to any degree close to the people he's fired and fucked over. >
  
  Obviously not. But any reasonable person would be at least bothered when over half their net worth is wiped out. >
  
  We already know by now that Elon is not a reasonable person. >
  
  Elon Musk proved that people aren't rich on the merits of their work >
  
  Brilliant business man gets businessed hard! >
  
  Rich man goes from unimaginably rich to unimaginably rich. I am Jacks completely uninterested lack of shit giving. >
  
  Fuck him and his weird torso and all his companies and especially the one that killed 1,500 animals for some dumb ass fucking product of his. He’s a scumbag. >
  
  Kind of a good indicator that it was all fantasy numbers on paper.
  Let's say you hold 60% of the shares of a company. They're currently selling at $1000 a share and you have 600 shares. Someone will say, "His network is $600,000 because of those shares".
  Not really. As soon as you starts selling the shares, they drop in price. You'll never actually get $600,000 cash for those shares. It's a fantasy number. You're not actually worth $600,000. You never were.
  It's a way for rich nimrods go out to behind the barn and see "who's is bigger". Oh, and also used to impress peasants who are envious of such things. The LaFou types. >
  
  Careful, this is the argument they use to avoid taxation. It's not real money so why tax it?
  It's sorta real. It's not liquid, but it represents a lot. So much that they can get loans against it for the rest of their lives and never pay taxes at all. >
  
  It's called unrealized gains. Until the gains are realized, i.e. sold for money, it doesn't really exist. You can't tax nonexistent money.
  You can back a loan with any collateral that is accepted by a lender. 
  Elon paid about 11 billion dollars into his 2021 tax bill. He has an effective tax rate of about 53%. >
  
  When I see records in the Guinness Book of World Records, I sometimes wonder how much it costed to achieve such an absurd claim to fame. 
  Elon somehow managed to spend the most money for his record, while also being a massive douche for free all at the same time. >
  
  The man is a hardcore multitasker >
  
  Damn I could have done so much stupid shit with 182 billion dollars. >
  
  He's lost more than the GDP of most countries... >
  
  Oh boo-hoo poor billionaires losing money so sad, it’s not like they aren’t still billionaires >
  
  Headlines like this turn my 'Just Okay' days into 'Actually Pretty Good' days. >
  
  He owns a bunch of libs now though >
  
  He's going to own a bunch of libs used Tesla's soon enough >
  
  Can’t wait for the day his deranged mug no longer crowds the daily headlines… >
  
  Elon is now officially the world's biggest loser. >
  
  I'll be happy when he drops to a single digit billionaire or better falls out of the billionaires Club. But he's still a tripple digit billionaire despite losing 180 billion in net worth. Just shows how much money was shoved up his ass by fools who wanted to get rich quick. >
  
  This blink-182 marketing campaign is wild. >
  
  As much as I’d love him to see consequences for his actions he won’t. He could lose 99.9% of his wealth and still not be able to spend it all. The closest he’ll ever come is when he goes in public and is mercilessly booed and he’s rich enough to just avoid public forever. >
  
  
  and still not be able to spend it all
  
  He's pretty heavily leveraged after the twitter deal.... He's one more company purchase and an anti-semitic rant from bankruptcy. Throw in a sexual abuse according (as is common about those in power) and his personal finances might take a hit >
  
  Roscoe P. Coltrane style laugh >
  
  Reading that article has given me a Guinness-record errection. >
  
  The worst part, he lost all that worth and is still a billionaire. >
  
  Yeah we really showed those billionaires! Now he’s only worth… more than I can even imagine… 
  Not a pro Elon post, more of a he shouldn’t have ever had that much to lose post… >
  
  This are numbers you cannot fathom. And i thought i was rich with a couple k in savings. >
  
  Just remember, this man lost more money in 12 months than almost everyone in the world would see in 100,000 years at their current job and it didn’t impact his quality of life one tiny bit. 
  Almost like we could afford to tax the absolute shit out of these assholes and it would cause nothing but wealth and prosperity for entire countries. We could maybe do something with that money to help all of humanity, like Musk lies about being his goal. >
  
  Okay now I'm genuinely curious. Guinness does not just randomly make records of... well, world records. To my understanding someone has to actively ask them to. That... mostly includes people and companies that wanna feel better about themselves for having some random record... whatever it is they are doing. Usually stuff nobody in the right might would ever think of. Companies even pay good money for that. So much so there's records you can't even try to challenge. So in short: who commissioned Guinness to turn someone's net worth drop into a world record? at this rate i wouldn't be surprised if it was musk himself. >
  
  Lol! Man could have ended world hunger, threw it away instead. Absolute garbage can of a person. >
  
  Huh, who knew that Tesla shareholders wouldn’t love their CEO spending a lot of his time and money trying to get hate speech back on twitter? >
  
  A good portion attributable to his erratic right wing behavior. >
  
  The problem for me is not really the loss. The issue is that this man just beat the record for the highest loss of fortune in modern history and he is STILL the 2nd richest man on the planet with a fortune of 160 billion dollars. I don’t think people understand the magnitude of insane wealth that these people have. The top 5 richest people are worth the equivalent of entire countries GDPs. It’s absolutely insane. 
  Why do we let this happen? And then they use all that wealth to ensure politicians that are against raising taxes on wealth keep getting elected. I cannot describe the outrage I feel with this. The top 10 richest people could give 100k dollars to over 15 million people and they would still be rich. How stupid is that. >
  
  Disgusting that one man is this rich. Yet he tried to stop Tesla workers unionizing! 
  Tries to act like he is saving the world. Just another fucking greedy capitalist acquiring fucking insane wealth for his fucking EGO! 
  What he lost could end child hunger across the entire world forever.
  This is SICKENING! 🤦 >
  
  I wonder if Kanye is in 2nd >
  
  Bezos loosing 3 billion dollars from a large single day stock swing is more than Kanye has ever been worth >
  
  omg, I was three digits off and didn't notice, lol. I know the difference between millions and billions, I swear... >
  
  What’s the world record for being able to lose $182 billion and it not affect your lifestyle? >
  
  And his networth is still 6 times higher than what it was right before the pandemic. Just shows how much money fools have pumped up his ass >
  
  His impulsiveness really bit him in the ass last year that's for sure >
  
  Imagine not owning Twitter and just spending that money >
  
  As I read the article all I see is billionaires lining up for tax credits.  This is going to allow the ultra wealthy to continue to pay 0 in income tax for a long time. >
  
  He's still richer than most of the world's population combined. Apart from bruising his ego, the loss of $182b doesn't affect him in any way, shape, or form.
  Think about that for a second. >
  
  God damn it, now they will put it in the book. Then he will be so insecure that he buys the company and start charging 8 bucks a month for a properly poured beer. >
  
  Sucks to suck, i say waiting in the Mcdonalds line >
  
  Well let us keep the ball rolling. Is he a American Citizen? Dual citizenship does not count. >
  
  Wtf is with his mouth >
  
  Good, let's break it again >
  
  So he’s  Guinness world record loser, love it >
  
  This is dumb. Every rich person's net worth has plummeted with the market dropping. Its all imaginary money anyway. When market recovers so will his billions >
  
  Play stupid games win stupid prizes!  Congrats Elon! >
  
  In other news douchebag makes headlines again, more tomorrow >
  
  Please let it be "World's biggest loser" >
  
  Tell me if I’m wrong. He lost money, but it really doesn’t matter to him, but a lot of people that had their 401(k)s and investments lost Bigley. >
  
  Will he use this to somehow get out of paying taxes while getting tax money back? >
  
  He's going to acquire GWR and rewrite all the records to be favorable to him and his >
  
  daily reminder that guinness world records arent a real record keeping orginization >
  
  But you don't remind people daily, you've barely ever written that!
  Hey everyone! This guy's a phony! A big fat phony! >
  
  Daily reminder that this guy isn't a real daily reminder. >
  
  Good, fuck him and fuck all billionaires. >
  
  As long as their company shares still exist, nothing would change if they were to all die. Someone else will end up with the share and become a billionaire and nothing would change >
  
  The biggest loser of all time. >
  
  Officially the world’s biggest loser. >
  
  Trump is gonna be mad that he lost again, the title of “biggest loser” >
  
  Really highlights how ghoulish he is. Outright refuses to use any of his money to help others and then casually loses an amount that could solve multiple global problems just for the purpose of massaging his ego. >
  
  He is the biggest loser, it's official now lol >
  
  haters gonna hate >
  
  Dick suckers gonna suck >
  
  Elongone Muskov was merely transferring/washing some authoritarian / dark money into owning key pieces of industry in the US for the East via a massive market manipulation pump and dump scam. It was never his money, he knows it.
  Reminds me of when Trump was fined when he owned the Taj Mahal Casino for the largest money laundering fine in history at the time and the money laundering started immediately after opening, almost as if that was the full purpose. Then came the Trump Towers that were just washing machines transnationally.
  Elon and Trump are just fronts for authoritarian money, there is a reason they get away with so much. >
  
  He's still worth 142 billion....think he'll be ok >
  
  The problem is it doesn’t matter because the amount of money he has is basically inconceivable to us making 50k a year. Like 300b 200b 100b if there’s still a b, he’s not suffering. >
  
  Who is the biggest loser? Elon Musk >
  
  I do not give a sh*t about this guy. >
  
  Hahahahaha!!! God this combined with the Andrew Tate news has me smiling ear to ear. What an amazing week it’s been!! >
  
  He's always been dumb he just finally stopped getting lucky lol >
  
  But he's so smart!!! How could that possibly happen?!?!?
  /S >
  
  Disrupt a couple of really shitty entrenched industries and people will give you a lot of leeway.  Not infinite leeway though.  The majority of his fan base has turned against him.  The rest are desperately smoking copium. >
  
  I don’t think he phased…. It’s like an infinite money cheat on the sims >
  
  Congratulations, Elon. >
  
  His mother's very proud. >
  
  Bless his heart. >
  
  (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ Rent
  ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Free >
  
  This is important and not that twitter caused election misinformation and was used as a political weapon.?
  Not the blatant overselling of covid that forced people to get vaccines to fill the pockets of big pharma?  That is being revealed by Musk?
  No its the fact that the guy who pointed it out lost money.  Trying to find the truth?  Ok.
  Cool.  news reddit is a dogpile.  Not sure what you all do here besides confirmation bias >
  
  oh wow more covid conspiracies how exciting and new >
  
  Golly gee willikers what exhilarating news! >
  
  The amount of money some asshole has or lost is not "NEWS" >
  
  Go ahead an celebrate everyone, and then continue to hear news about him for years to come because this doesn’t mean shit unless he went absolutely bankrupt. Feel as good as you want but Elon doesn’t give two shits only the people who write articles celebrating anything negative that happens to him. >
  
  Found Elon’s alt >
  
  The man just has no quit in him! >
  
  Guinness is a fun company. It’s mostly just you paying them to officiate. The fact that this is news meant the corporate entity of Guinness has a profit to make.
  Tommy Tallarico has like 8 of the same award. You can see on the episode of MTV cribs that he (wasn’t) on. >
  
  $182 billion, seriously not enough for this chucklefuck to lose.  Make it more. >
  
  So he is now officially the world's biggest loser. Love that for him. >
  
  And yet he is still filthy rich. >
  
  You guys think Elon didn’t know Tesla stock was going to plummet? It was way inflated and even Elon knew it. I’m not saying it couldn’t be worth $400 again one day but it definitely was never worth $400 when it reached that point recently. >
  
  From wonder boy to the world’s biggest loser!  He even beat Trump!  Fascism delivers! >
  
  Not surprising. Look at how most stocks did last year. >
  
  Love it , love it, the resentment of everybody saying loser here loser there, yet I don't see anyone handling a billionaire company from scratch nor anyone changing the world as much as Musk is doing. People like him bounce back quicker than you take on going to the bathroom, believe me that he might have a record in losing money but it's his fuel to keep going and eventually win with record numbers as well. That's exactly why he is like he is.
  Now on Trump, I can't help you there.bye. >
  
  Honestly, I have no idea of what you are saying to me. I don't know what to say haha thank you for participating?! >
  
  He knew the risk and I doubt he regrets anything. >
  
  And I'm guessing people who think you should have a wealth tax to tax the theoretical worth on unrealized income gains still won't understand why that makes zero sense. >
  
  Officially the biggest loser! >
  
  The picture on the tab.. >
  
  He might have to sell off the family emerald mine to make ends meet. >
  
  I should re-open my twitter account and spam tweet him with that amazing record! >
  
  He's lost more money than anyone else has ever had? >
  
  I’m sure he doesn’t care since he’s cashed out billions in stocks and tucked away. >
  
  Since it’s an intangible value, he never had it to begin with, eh? >
  
  What's his worth nowadays? 40-50bln? >
  
  Where should Guinness send the award to ? >
  
  the "GUH" to end all guh's >
  
  I would like to challenge it. Will someone lend me some money to start. >
  
  Spoiler alert: 12 years from now its gonna be broken again >
  
  ...and all because he HAD to be the top tweeter. >
  
  Caroline Ellison is indeed a rank amateur. In many ways. >
  
  Elon Musk offers to buy Guinness World Records next at 5. >
  
  And yet he’s still the second richest person on earth.
  This is the problem. >
  
  We could have had all that money as tax money >
  
  For anyone confused why Elons net worth still comes up as $180 Billion…
  He was worth $360 Billion before. I don’t keep up with that but I remember when I was a kid and Bill Gates was worth $50 or $60 Billion and it really seemed like a ceiling.  
  Damn kids and their hunnerd billions >
  
  Going broke to own the libs, in 2023, and in fucking twitter. 😂😂😂 >
  
  That’s like 4 Twitters, wow >
  
  That’s about 720 billion bananas w bananas at 25 cents each. And if you stacked those bananas end to end, you have a lot more patience than I do. >
  
  Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
  🥹☺️🥰😍 >
  
  I bet Guiness beer is not on tap at his bars no more. >
  
  Dam those are big words. >
  
  Hope he loses another $182 billion…. >
  
  Guess who he’s gonna take this out on… >
  
  Its fucking disgusting that anyones net worth can ever get so high… nobody on the planet should ever be a billionaire nobody needs or deserves that amount of money >
  
  The only award he himself actually achieved. >
  
  Don’t you have to pay Guinness to get a new record? >
  
  Ahhh, that tall, cold glass of schadenfreude tastes so good. >
  
  Can’t buy that title for $8/month >
  
  Good thing the loss was only on paper >
  
  Muskrats version of reverse capital greed uno speedrun. >
  
  Do you think he thinks it's funny? He's so arrogant, he probably jokes about it. 
  I hope it keeps him awake at night. I hope it's just the beginning of his losses. >
  
  I keep hearing about this but I just want to know how much he's worth now. >
  
  Thanks. Damn I didn't know it had gotten that high. Last time I checked it was about 200 billion. >
  
  Do you think maybe there is a lesson here that the way "net worth" is calculated and publicized isn't that useful? >
  
  What would his net worth be if he took Starlink or all off SpaceX public? >
  
  He's doing just fine everyone:
  
  enough to knock him off his perch as the richest man in the world — a title now held by luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault.
  
  
  
  making him the No. 2 richest person in the world ahead of India’s Gautam Adani ($125.1 billion)
  
  
  
  Musk’s fortune once sat as high as $320 billion in late 2021.
  
  
  
  Forbes estimates that his net worth sits at $142.1 billion, making him the No. 2 richest person in the world
  
  
  
  $58.6 billion loss by Japanese investor Masayoshi Son in 2000
  
  
  
  Bezos’s $80 billion loss in 2022
  
  
  
  Mark Zuckerberg also broke Masayoshi Son’s record with his $78 billion loss >
  
  Blink-182 of an eye and it's all gone. >
  
  If you think he cares you haven’t been paying attention I’m not a fan of his, but it’s clear he had an inkling this was possible and the cynic in me is wondering if he did it to get discounted shares lol >
  
  Imagine spending $22 Billion on a glorified text box >
  
  He paid $44 billion for it lmao >
  
  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? >
  
  Meh, pocket change.  He’ll only need to sell 22,750,000,000 Blue check marks to make that up.  If only people would make more babies faster. >
  
  India: I'm on it >
  
  Elon Musk: I'm on it >
  
  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.