Yesterday, tech billionaire Elon Musk and singer Grimes announced they had downloaded their first baby together: a precious little bub apparently called X Æ A-12. It’s a boy, if you couldn’t tell.
Musk announced the baby’s birth and name via his favourite medium of choice – Twitter replies to his raging passionate fanbase.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2020
X Æ A-12 Musk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2020
Musk is nothing if not a notorious shitposter, which is a perfectly noble profession except that in Musk’s case it sometimes wipes billions of dollars off the Tesla share price. The chances that he’s joking about his son being called “X Æ A-12” are fair-to-middling, not least because it’s not a legal name in the state of California.
But we also can’t be sure. If anyone’s parents are going to call their kid something that sounds like a virus from the year 3,000, it’s X Æ A-12’s. And so of course the internet bound together for a glorious 12 hours to meme the shit out of this newborn’s name.
white people be like “wow your name is so long and weird” and then name their kid X Æ A-12
— abby govindan (@abbygov) May 5, 2020
Grimes and Elon deciding on a baby name pic.twitter.com/GDq1pCXWox
— Will Kellogg (@Will_Kellogg) May 5, 2020
X Æ A-12 fighting with the clones elon musk made of him pic.twitter.com/z3OaEi2Kcn
— jose (@hoesayb_) May 5, 2020
Me trying to pronounce X Æ A-12 pic.twitter.com/KVOTtAHPbu
— BD (@BrandonDavisBD) May 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/boymeetw9rld/status/1257729251484327937
https://twitter.com/OprahSide/status/1257793870697398273
https://twitter.com/TTTALBI/status/1257785374417604613
The moment you learn your dad named you X Æ A-12 pic.twitter.com/vSAkYMMJvb
— Fandom (@getFANDOM) May 5, 2020
Nobody:
X Æ A-12 and his boys at prom pic.twitter.com/eNWWUL5tEO
— mertyasar (@mertyasar_7) May 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/B3LIKETIM/status/1257801002780147715
Elon: hey X Æ A-12 I got you a puppy pic.twitter.com/NmU2UXhkmT
— Kyle 🌱 (@KylePlantEmoji) May 5, 2020
damn X Æ A-12 already learning how to walk pic.twitter.com/WIo6FyQrWY
— Zx (@zxthekid) May 5, 2020
made a video on how to pronounce X Æ A-12 for anyone who is confused pic.twitter.com/lZ2i3NcoGD
— 🫒 (@olivelorraine_) May 5, 2020
Sound on for that last one, I promise you won’t regret it.
