Elon Musk reacted to the change of the head of Twitter with a meme about Stalin famous photograph with Joseph Stalin. He turned the famous photo into a meme, replacing two of the four people on it with images of the new and former heads of the social network.
As a basis, Musk took two famous photographs taken on the Moscow-Volga canal in March 1937. Initially, in addition to Stalin, it also depicted Kliment Voroshilov, Vyacheslav Molotov and Nikolai Yezhov. The faces of Stalin and Yezhov were replaced by Musk in the photo of Parag Agrawal and Jack Dorsey, appointed the day before the head of Twitter, respectively.
In the second photo, Dorsey-Yezhov is no longer there, but the falling of his body. For this meme, Musk used a different version of the same photo that was distributed in Soviet periodicals after the conviction and execution of Yezhov.
The change in the head of Twitter became known on November 29. The company's board of directors unanimously approved Agrawal to replace Dorsey. It was clarified that in addition to Twitter, Dorsey is the founder of Square. Forbes estimates the businessman's fortune at $ 11.8 billion.