A viral photo showed a Cybertruck owner being epically fact-checked about Tesla CEO Elon Musk's sanity timeline.
Cybertrucks and other Tesla vehicles have increasingly become targets of vandalism since Tesla CEO Elon Musk went off the deep end, exacerbated by his alignment with Republican President Donald Trump.
To avoid their Cybertruck from getting keyed or lit on fire, as some have at Tesla dealerships and charging stands, one owner of the dystopian all-electric pickup truck in Brooklyn tried to distance themselves from the controversial DOGE leader, who enraged thousands of federal workers who lost their jobs as a result of his mass firing and layoff initiatives.
The Cybertruck owner apprised would-be vandals with a sticker with the declaration, “I bought this before Elon went crazy.”
Here's a photo shared by Noah Michelson, director of HuffPost Personal, who happened across the vehicle in his Brooklyn neighborhood.
“It’s always parked somewhere within a three-block radius of my apartment, and because I rarely see them in Brooklyn, I always notice... They’re also just so alien-looking that it’s hard not to stare,” Michelson said.
Upon further inspection, Michelson was surprised to see a community note from X (formerly Twitter) was tacked on underneath the sticker, setting the record straight for passersby who might come across the hard-to-miss bulky vehicle.
The note confirmed:
“Tesla only started selling the Cybertruck after Elon Musk went crazy."
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Social media users lauded the anonymous fact-checker.
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The first units of the highly-anticipated Tesla Cybertrucks were first delivered to customers on November 30, 2023.
It's debatable when Musk started his far-right 180, and we don't know where to begin with his long list of indiscretions that demonstrate what many believe is a lack of humanity.
For starters, Musk has an estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, whom he claimed was "killed" by the "woke mind virus" during a transphobic rant on a July 2024 Daily Wire interview on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
He also made several transphobic comments, including his belief that gender reassignment surgery was "child mutilation and sterilization."
In April 2023, Twitter unceremoniously lifted its ban against misgendering or deadnaming transgender individuals a year after Musk acquired the platform and rebranded it X.
Musk also announced in June the same year that the terms “cis” and “cisgender” would be considered slurs and that using them on the platform would lead to suppression.
These changes sparked backlash from the LGBTQ+ community, who viewed the policy alterations as a rollback of protections for transgender users.
In November 2023, Musk was accused of bigotry when he agreed with an antisemitic post pushing a conspiracy theory claiming that Jews push "push hatred" against white people.
Accusations of Musk's antisemitism skyrocketed when he shockingly gave what appeared to be the Nazi salute at Trump's second term inauguration.
Since aligning with Trump and being appointed to head DOGE, Musk has come under fire for slashing federal spending by cutting expenses that included diversity, equity, and inclusion contracts (DEI).
The Cybertruck stickers come at a time when previous Tesla owners are trading in their vehicles, freeing them from having any ties to Musk's automotive brand.
Grammy-award winning singer Sheryl Crow went viral for a video of her waving off the Tesla she sold to donate the money to NPR.
"My parents always said… you are who you hang out with," Crow wrote in the video's caption.
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