As the reality of the situation began to settle in last night, one commenter conspiratorially insisted the right-wing had been set up: “The left started the rumour on Twitter to make it look like Twitter is only full of racist fascist transphobes to discredit Twitter because Elon bought it. But we not ready for that conversation.” The artist responded, crisply: “No I think [you’re] mistaken.”

Good God the internet actually makes you stupid. It makes you dumber and dumber and then it presents you with thousands of even dumber people so you still feel infallibly smart by comparison.