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Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)

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[–] badnew@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I swear to god fucking Elon Musk googled “cool website name generator” before changing it

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[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I read he has a history with trying to make company X happen

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[–] badnew@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I read, he should give up already

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[–] Kakapo@kbin.social 7 points 3 years ago

And got this:

https://i.imgur.com/JiTUI3M.png

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[–] Pika@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I think it's more likely he googled "Call of Duty Username prefix generator" then shaved the duplicates XD

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