Elon Musk, head of Twitter and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, used the meme to comment on the takeover of Rostov-on-Don by Wagner PMC soldiers. Related article seen on the billionaire’s official Twitter account.
At about 13:30 Moscow time, Elon Musk posted a meme showing the different reactions of men and women to any event. It depicts a sleeping girl and a traditional man whose eyes are red from lack of sleep.
How do men sleep? Not possible. In the text in the picture, the children are watching the situation with Wagner PMC.
Elon Musk’s post received more than 3.2 million views, more than 83,000 likes and more than 4,000 comments in less than an hour. In the comments, people mostly share their views on the situation and also post other themed memes.
Although Musk’s post is one of the most striking, it is not the only reaction of the English-speaking segment of the Internet audience to the military rebellion of Wagner PMC. Earlier, for example, a journalist from the American edition of The Verge compared to The setting in Rostov-on-Don with the Call of Duty video game.