‘Everyone Hates Elon’: This is the campaign that wants to “piss off Elon Musk one small action at a time”
This small group of friends has tapped into a global movement through their Everyone Hates Elon campaign, based in the U.K.
This UK-based campaign has made billionaire Elon Musk their target, with the hope of ‘pissing off’ one of the world’s richest men. The group calls themself “Everyone Hates Elon,” and one of their members spoke with the Hollywood Reporter to describe their efforts, on the condition of anonymity.
The individual told the outlet that the group is made up of “a very small group of friends” who are scattered across the U.K.
The friends had worked on campaigns before and were all outraged at Musk’s interventions into British politics earlier this year. “We saw Elon Musk sticking his oar in and demanding new elections in the U.K., campaigning to free Tommy Robinson from prison,” said the member of EHE. Tommy Robinson is an infamous white supremacist who in 2009 founded the fascist political party, the English Defense League.
One of the initial efforts launched by the EHE was a fundraiser, dubbed People Versus Elon, wherein donations could be made per post on X made by the platform’s billionaire. Even if each time, a person had pledged pennies, the group told the Hollywood Reporter that they raised close to $200,000 and donated the funds “to causes [Elon] hates.”
Today, the group uses Instagram, TikTok, and BlueSky to update followers on their activities. After local elections held in the U.K., where the far-right party, Reform U.K., performed well, EHE has placed billboards and posters featuring Nigel Farage—who has had his own problems with Musk.
The origins of Everyone Hates Elon
The group, however, really got started with stickers, with a photo of Musk, with the caption “Don’t Buy a Swatsticar,” alluding to Musk’s Nazi salute during the presidential innoguration activities.
“So we saw Elon Musk doing that salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration,“ said the EHE member, explaining that watching Musk’s full integration into far-right politics made many feel like they ”had to do something.“ The campaigners had assumed that their audience would be based in the U.K., but noted in the interview that people from Europe, the US, Canada, and Australia have all placed orders for stickers. The EHE member said that their work had led them to believe that ”there is a global movement of people who won’t stand for his fascism and nonsense."
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