- Tesla CEO
Elon Musk announced onTwitter that his girlfriend Claire "c" Boucher, AKAGrimes , gave birth Monday night to her first child, a baby boy. - Musk also tweeted two photos of the baby, one with a tattoo filter covering part of his face, and replied to one fan that the baby's name is "X Æ A-12," which a lot of people took literally.
- Whether that's actually the baby's name or not ($4), the bizarre string of letters, numbers, and symbols prompted a lot of
memes about the new parenting duo (Musk has six other sons already). - $4.
Twitter congratulated Elon Musk and Grimes on the birth of their baby boy with a trending hashtag that's fitting for the $4: it's a confusing string of letters, numbers, and symbols.
That's because Musk quietly announced the birth in a string of replies that included a photo of him holding his sixth son (it's his girfriend Claire "c" Boucher's first child), a picture of the baby $4 on his face, and also what Musk claims is his son's name: "X Æ A-12."
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) $4
Both Musk and Grimes are huge trolls, which $4 over whether the pair were even actually having a baby in the first place. Musks' eccentricities and erratic Twitter behavior have gotten him in trouble in the past, including in $4 to the birth of his sixth son. Grimes, to her credit, also loves to trick people, and once claimed $4 included "astro-gliding" to other dimensions.
The name announcement is probably a joke about all the memes leading up to the birth of what crazy, tech-oriented name the duo would pick for their child – and it also $4 about what the name is actually is, since Musk liked a tweet that says the letters stand for "X Ash Archangel."
Either way, people had plenty to say about "X Æ A-12," starting with their takes on how to pronounce it. One person referenced the Vine-famous clip of Little Mix member Jesy Nelson trying to speak in a Jamaican accent, and accidentally speaking gibberish instead.
—Paul Kelly (@Paulkelllly) $4
Another tweet compared the pronunciation to a popular TikTok that English listeners turned into a meme, even though it just features a particularly $4.
—Ben Yahr (@benyahr) $4
Barstool Sports podcast host Ellie Schnitt said the name sounds like a randomly generated wifi password.
—ellie schnitt (@holy_schnitt) $4
A lot of the memes referenced what Grimes and Musk would be like as parents. This one uses a popular dub of electronic noises over a person speaking to poke fun at how Grimes might ask her son to clean his room.
—Tin #⃝ (@flawlessmorpher) $4
The memes played off the fact that Grimes is just as eccentric as her Tesla CEO boyfriend, and she dabbles in a lot of cyberbunk and futuristic fantasy aesthetics – her music is genre-defying, and $4 is just as weird as her persona.
A lot of Grimes memes about her and her baby use electronic bleeps and bloops as a stand-in for the English language, which is fair, because Grimes uses non-English phrases, characters, and gibberish in her artistry all the time.
—helen (@helen) $4
Others made jokes about how Grimes' and Musk's son would act, comparing him to the scary ficitional "Siren Head" cryptid $4 that has become a TikTok meme.
—damo (@mfdamo) $4
One Grimes fan used a TikTok of a girl dancing while crying to express her feelings about the musician having a baby with the controversial
—friendly pokemon that craves stability (@thequeenofmemes) $4
One tweet played off the famous "Substitute Teacher" Key & Peele sketch.
—ziwe (@ziwe) $4
And another compared Musk to the matriarch in "Parasite."
—✨ Mallorie Jessica Udischas✨ (@SweetBeans99) $4
Boucher's hospital room in labor was compared to a burst of blinding light in the TV show "iCarly.:
—jake faris (@fake_jaris) $4
The baby boy himself was imagined as a tall masked creature running around the yard with his classmates.
—Manila Clams (@baoofwao) $4
And finally, the "cat screaming electronic buzzing" meme returned to illustrate how baby Grimes would utter his first words. Congratulations to Musk and Boucher!
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