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A couple shot a p--- film in a Tesla on Autopilot while there were 'a lot of cars driving by Lindsay Dodgson, INSIDER May 9, 2019, 11:56 AM Elon Musk @elonmusk Tesla blows haha

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Elon Musk Commenting on Pornhub Videos refers to jokes made about Elon Musk tweeting about a Pornhub video in which two people have sex in an auto-driving Tesla. The jokes tend to focus on recent news that Tesla's stock was rapidly falling and take the form of object labeling memes.

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On March 18th, 2019, a video was uploaded to Pornhub showing two people having sex in an auto-driving Tesla car. The video has been viewed over 12 million times. On April 30th, the Pornhub Instagram account^[1] made a post about the video, gaining over 176,000 likes (shown below).

P--- ) pornhub # . Follow pornhub Reporting you to Elon for not having two hands on the wheel with autopilot enabled. #phworthy P--- 3w 3w 551 likes Reply View replies (21) 176,781 likes APRIL 30 TINDER DATE C--- IN ME IN A TESLA ON AUTOPILOT Like Add a comment... Post

On May 9th, Elon Musk,^[2] apparently aware of the video, tweeted "Turns out there’s more ways to use Autopilot than we imagined," gaining over 25,000 retweets and 183,000 likes (shown below).

Elon Musk Follow @elonmusk Turns out there's more ways to use Autopilot than we imagined 5:46 PM - 9 May 2019

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Musk's tweet caught the attention of news publications, who began covering the video. These publications include Inverse,^[3] Gizmodo,^[4] and Rolling Stone.^[5] Redditors first began making jokes shortly after Musk's tweet; a May 10th post on /r/PewDiePieSubmisisons^[6] gained over 9,600 points (shown below, left). Memes picked up a week later, Tesla stocks saw a huge drop after the car's autopilot system was engaged in a fatal car crash.^[9] Around the same time, Tesla had created an official Tesla page on Pornhub. This led to a series of object labeling memes which depicted Musk as uncaring and commenting on Pornhub videos while his company suffered a crisis. An example was posted to /r/dankmemes^[7] on May 21st by user jonesy_boi, gaining 150 points (shown below, right).

TINDER DATE C--- IN ME IN A TESLA ON AUTOPILOT Elon Musk 1 mont @elonmusk Sexybawie Turns out there's more ways to use Elon Musk would be proud Autopilot than we imagined ←Reply 495 PM 10:46 2019. 05. 09. Twitter for iPhone 2 724 Retweets 22,2K Likes 17 hour Elon_Musk_Official I am Elon Musk @elonmusk 13m Shoulda seen it coming ←Reply 42 O272 t1315 4886

Others made different jokes related to the story. A fake Musk tweet about the story gained over 12,000 points in /r/boottoobig^[10] (shown below, left). @evdefender tweeted that the Tesla drama was made all the more entertaining because of the Tesla Pornhub page (shown below, right). The influx of memes of this type led to an inquiry on /r/OutOfTheLoop^[8] which gained over 4,300 likes.