It’s one of life’s basic truisms: You can’t have a CEO resign from a popular social media company without arousing the interest of people on that very same platform.
So, naturally, users shared many thoughts about Linda Yaccarino’s announcement on Wednesday that she was stepping down as CEO of X, the platform owned by Tesla mogul Elon Musk.
Yaccarino didn’t give a reason for the seemingly sudden departure, preferring to keep her X post announcing her resignation to rah-rah purple prose. Musk posted a sentence thanking Yaccarino for her contributions.
Meanwhile, numerous people asked Grok, the platform’s AI bot, to explain why Yaccarino quit, though it hadn’t offered an explanation as of early Wednesday afternoon.
Many X users noted that Yaccarino resigned just a day after Grok went on a tear of antisemitic remarks that culminated with the bot calling itself “MechaHitler,” after it was updated to be more “politically incorrect.”
So, yeah, people had thoughts. Lots of thoughts.
One person was skeptical that Yaccarino wrote the post, and suggested she used ChatGPT to write it based on the use of the “big dash.”