Trent Reznor Quits Twitter, Gets Called ‘Crybaby’ by Elon Musk

Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor says he is leaving Twitter quickly in response to what he known as “the arrogance of the billionaire class.”

The social media platform has been embroiled in controversy since Tesla tycoon Elon Musk purchased it for $44 billion after a number of months of attempting to get out of the deal. He fired the board after which dismissed an unknown variety of staff in any respect ranges by locking them out of their work accounts. He set a deadline of final Thursday for remaining workers to join “hardcore” lengthy hours, or they’d be thought to be having resigned and be given three months’ severance pay.

After staging a public ballot, Musk then reactivated the account of former president Donald Trump, who stays beneath investigation for a collection of crimes together with stealing secret authorities papers and inspiring the sedition that led to U.S. Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I’m about to depart,” Reznor informed the Hollywood Reporter in a brand new interview. “We don’t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment.” He added, “For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don’t feel good being there anymore.”

Musk addressed Reznor’s departure on Monday morning in response to a tweet from @catturd2 that learn, “Breaking … 48 hours since @elonmusk reinstated President Trump’s Twitter account and the world still hasn’t ended.”

“And it turns out that Trent ‘nine inch nails’ Reznor is actually a crybaby,” tweeted Musk, who just lately threatened to completely droop any accounts that have been caught impersonating different individuals (specifically him) with out specifying their parody standing.

Reznor is not the primary huge title to stop Twitter – and it’s not the primary time he’s accomplished it. When he closed his account for the second time in 2009, he defined that the platform’s system for blocking aggressive posts was restricted as a result of even when he blocked a follower, the tweets in query might nonetheless be learn. “It depresses me to think my art and life’s work can attract this kind of scum,” he stated. “If that was your intention, you trolling, cowardly pigs – you’ve succeeded.”