A Japanese The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has taken their frustration with billionaire dummy Elon Musk to an extreme by writing the former Twitter CEOâs name out in Hyrule Kingdom and bombing it to bits, and fans have taken that as a rallying cry against recent user-unfriendly changes.
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Twitter user chocrab_1226 has been at the forefront of Tears of the Kingdom creations since the open-world adventure game came out on May 12. Theyâve gone viral on Twitter for various inventions such as spinning flamethrowers, Korok torture devices and swing sets, and watering systems, among other contraptions. Linkâs new abilitiesâparticularly Fuse and Ultrahandâlet folks flex their creative muscles, especially if they have the build instructions in front of them, but I certainly didnât have âbomb Elonâ on my bingo card for this year.
Huff, puff, blow Elon Muskâs name up
Chocrab_1226 tweeted on July 2 their latest stunt. In what appears to be some random field in Hyrule Kingdom, chocrab_1226 spelled Elon Muskâs first name in Katakana with logs. After launching themselves in the air using an explosive, they then pulled out a bow and bomb flowers and proceeded to blow the billionaireâs name to smithereens. The post proved so popular they redid it again, only in English so folks in America can rally behind the explosive fun
I like Twitter.
I like Zelda.
I do'nt like Elon.#ăŒă«ăăźäŒèȘŹ #TearsoftheKingdom #NintendoSwitch https://t.co/zJ7rCgnWxO pic.twitter.com/QEsNZtMH57â ăĄăăđŠ (@chocrab_1226) July 2, 2023
âI like Twitter,â chocrab_1226 said. âI [donât] like Elon.â
While there doesnât appear to be any other players also doing this act of orbital bombardment, fans across Twitter have viewed this as a cause to get behind. One user called it âbeautiful,â another called it âtherapeutic,â while a different user said folks are âunited against Elon.â The consensus is the same, though: You know shitâs bad when Japanese Twitter is bombing your name, especially as folks scramble to find the next social media app as Twitter slowly dies.
Itâs hard to pinpoint any one reason for chocrab_1226 obliterating Elonâs name, but it comes after a dismal weekend for the social media app. On July 1, Twitter encountered interruptions with the experience as users ran into a ârate limit exceededâ message, preventing folks from seeing tweets. Must said the message was intentional and temporary to âaddress extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulationâ on the app. What resulted, though, was a busted experience. Tweets wouldnât load. Folks who could see any tweets were relegated to just a few hundred a day, unless they were a Blue subscriber, which let folks see a few thousand a day. And those who werenât logged into their account appeared to be restricted in their access to Twitter similar to how Instagram requires a login to view posts. Twitter users have chalked this fumbling up to Twitter DDoS-ing itself, which would be so funny if it were true.
Kotaku reached out to chocrab_1226 for comment. Kotaku also reached out to Twitter for comment, but the platform replied with an automated poop emoji.
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Tears of the Kingdom has been out for almost two months now, but players arenât quite done with Linkâs latest adventure just yet. Folks are still doing all sorts of absurd things in the game, like using apples to figure out the Twik of the Wildâs weight, building functional computers, and making music with lasers. What can you say: ridiculous measures call for ridiculous solutions.
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