It’s probably not a great feeling to get consistently owned on a website you overpaid billions of dollars for.

X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk suffered a mini-meltdown over the weekend after receiving a deadly broadside from an esteemed literary figure, Joyce Carol Oates, who in a single tweet vivisected his whole persona with cold, surgical brevity.

Oates to the broader public is a prolific award-winning author who’s written over 60 novels, which is probably more than Musk has read cover to cover in his entire life. But the 87-year-old is also prolific on X, where she routinely shares incisive cultural commentary when she’s not knocking down opinionated Philistines a peg or two.

On Saturday, she put Musk in the crosshairs after he wrote a lengthy boast about why he deserved his $1 t

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