This claim has appeared as a joke, but some readers may have originated it. However, in early May 2022, a meme began spreading on Facebook with the words “Elon Musk issued a tender offer to ‘View’ for a free Applebee’s appetizer coupon and $17 outright,” accompanied by a picture of comedian Joy Behar.
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“Purchasing Coca-Cola to reintroduce the cocaine.” The concept of the achievements of SpaceX, his opinions on politics, his fondness for chocolate milk, In the end of April and beginning of May, the CEO of Tesla sincerely tweeted about Musk had recently proposed to acquire Twitter for approximately $44 billion, a decision that drew increased focus to every tweet he posted as it circulated on social platforms, the sources of the meme remained undisclosed.”
Essentially, the tweets he posted at the time were a combination of both serious and casual, whether he tweeted them jokingly or not, he did not use a coupon for a free appetizer on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” to avoid the possibility of paying $17 for it.
According to the consumer-intelligence company MRI-Simmons, as published in The New York Times Magazine, Republicans make up just 12.6 percent while Democrats account for nearly 65 percent of the registered voters among its viewers. The mostly left-leaning show “The View,” which has been considered for years, often promotes ideas that are in line with the Democratic Party. Hosts like Behar and actor Whoopi Goldberg advocate for these ideas on the show. The content of the daytime talk show has also given some credibility to the meme.
In the past, Musk had expressed his views on contemporary American politics. He previously stated that the concept of “wokeness” allows individuals to behave in a cruel manner while hiding behind a false sense of virtue. Furthermore, just days before the humorous meme surfaced online, Musk tweeted about the far left’s animosity towards everyone, including themselves! Additionally, he emphasized that his objective for Twitter, in order to gain public confidence, was to provoke equal dissatisfaction among both the far right and the far left, and appeal to the majority of people who fall within the range of total human happiness, approximately 80%. Meanwhile, he maintained his stance.
Several of these comments displayed an apparently never-ending flow of posts circulating the meme. By conducting a basic search on the social media platform for the terms “Musk” and “Applebee’s,” numerous individuals seemed to be aware that it did not document a genuine occurrence involving Musk and an Applebee’s coupon on “The View.” However, there were some who may have been uncertain about the authenticity of the meme.
This is just a small selection of the articles sharing the meme that we discovered on Facebook.
The number of comments on the posts, in which users who played humor into it, mentioned that “The View” would be buying Musk, paying a price that was much too high.
One of his tweets did not originate from a joke and simply appeared as a claim. Musk did not offer a coupon for a free appetizer at Applebee’s and did not buy “$17” worth of “The View”.