Elon Musk changed his name in X to Kekius Maximus

World the richest person Elon Musk has confused people with a few of his names on his social media X message service Kekius Maximus -as a nickname.

Musk has 210 million followers on the service.

A tech billionaire and future US president Donald Trump’s the creditor has not yet offered an explanation for his nickname, The BBC reported.

However, the BBC thinks that Kekius refers to the kek term used on the internet, which is somewhat equivalent to the exclamation point LOL (laugh out loud).

Kek is also an Egyptian god of darkness, who is sometimes depicted as a frog’s head, the BBC says. Maximus could refer for example Russell Crowen to the character in the movie Gladiator.

In the new the profile picture shows Pepe the frog, often used in far-right memes, dressed in a gladiator outfit.

In his lap, the pet seems to have an object like a game controller.

According to the BBC, a crypto coin named after Pepe arvo rose significantly after Musk’s stunt. Coinmarketcapin according to the crypto coin’s biggest boom had already calmed down at half past two in the afternoon Finnish time.

Musk has played with the values ​​of cryptocurrencies before.

When Trump announced after his election victory that he was appointing Musk to lead a new agency for government efficiency, that agency was named the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

The appointment is valid until July 4, 2026.

Dogecoin, on the other hand, is a cryptocurrency created as a joke, whose value skyrocketed when Musk started joking about it in 2021.

In the X service, after his appointment, Musk has also published a picture in which the text of the DOGE governing body and the Doge meme dog of the Shiba inu breed are combined.

Elon Musk’s wealth has taken a strong rise since Trump’s election victory was decided.

The reason is mainly that Trump, during his presidency, is expected to remove various trade and legislative restrictions from the industries in which Musk’s companies operate.

These companies include, for example, the electric car and battery company Tesla, the space and satellite company SpaceX and the artificial intelligence company xAI.

A good example of Musk’s influence was already seen during Trump’s election campaign. Musk generously supported the campaign financially and by targeting messages from the messaging service X.

Donald Trump, who had long been vehemently opposed to electric cars, changed his position during his election campaign in August.

“I support electric cars,” he said at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia. telling at the same time, I frankly also joke about the reason for the change of position.

“I have to, because Elon supports me very strongly. So I have no choice.”

Elon Musk’s close association with the future president of the United States has raised his wealth to a class all its own in world history.

The news agency Bloomberg calculated that Musk’s wealth increased from $213 billion to $442.1 billion in 2024. Measured in euros, the value of Musk’s assets increased by approximately 205 billion last year.

The value of Musk’s assets is especially affected by Tesla’s stock price, as Tesla’s shares are the billionaire’s single most important asset.

You can compare that growth Finland’s state debt, which is 169 billion euros.

World the second richest person, according to Bloomberg’s billionaire list, is the founder of the US Amazon Jeff Bezos.

As of December 17, 2024, Elon Musk was $237 billion richer than Jeff Bezos. The gap was greater than ever between the world’s richest and second-richest people, Bloomberg noted.

According to the most recent data from Bloomberg’s listing, the difference in assets between the top two is currently around $193 billion.

Correction on January 1, 2025 at 2:20 p.m.: The article previously incorrectly read that the term kek came from Latin. It’s actually internet slang.