Photo: Carina Johansen (Getty Images)Digital activism started with KONY 2012, which asked people to highlight the crimes of an African warlord in an attempt to aid a global manhunt to catch him. The ALS ice bucket challenge aimed to raise awareness of the horrors of a degenerative disease.The latest iteration of what’s also called “clicktivism” has a slightly less noble, but no less motivating, goal: To make fun of Elon Musk.Thousands of Twitter users have posted the same single phrase—“buying twitter for $44 billion to make it worthless in the span of 2 weeks is the closest elon musk will get to donating money”—since 3 pm Eastern Time Tuesday at the exhortation of a social media marketer to bombard the platform with the message.Saeed Awawdeh, a 25-year-old working on social media marketing in New York, who posts as @SaeedDiCaprio on Twitter, first came up with the idea earlier today while working at home. “This was orchestrated during my bathroom break ngl to u,” he said via—what else?—Twitter DM. The social media marketer says he quickly threw the tweet together in a short break from his desk, before posting it to the social network. “There were no thoughts in my head,”
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