Regardless of tech magnate Elon Musk’s current and fixed drama with Twitter, his latest firm, there will be little question that the person nonetheless has legions of adoring followers. One group of fanboys took their devotion to the following degree this previous Saturday, delivering a $600,000 sculpture of Musk to Tesla headquarters in Austin, Texas. The richest man on the planet ignored them.
The fanboys made a pilgrimage to Tesla HQ in October as a stunt to advertise their cryptocurrency firm—Elon GOAT Token, or EGT—which sells a token of the identical identify. In accordance with the EGT web site, the corporate commissioned the sculpture to honor Musk’s accomplishments and inform him they suppose he’s the GOAT, the “best of all time.” The Musk sculpture, which weighs 12,000 kilos (5,440 kilos), options the Tesla CEO’s head on high of a goat’s physique driving a rocket. The bust can also be carrying a gold-plated dogecoin necklace. Thus far, nonetheless, Musk has disregarded their items.
That’s not all, although. The Wall Road Journal reported that the rocket Musk is driving can transfer and factors to the sky as if it’s preparing for liftoff. The sculpture can also be outfitted with gasoline traces to create flames on the again finish of the rocket. Kevin Stone, a metallic sculptor in Canada, made Musk’s head out of mirror polished aluminum over a interval of six months. The goat physique and the rocket, in the meantime, have been made by Spectacle, an structure and design firm in Phoenix, Arizona.
EGT representatives advised the Journal that their objective was for Musk to simply accept the 12,000-pound present on the occasion at Tesla, which they named “GOATSgiving.” However the fanboys harbored an apparent ulterior motive: They needed Musk to simply accept the present and tweet about it to his 100 million+ followers, which they hoped would draw consideration to their token.
“Elon tweeting us would legitimize the token,” Ashley Sansalone, the manager accountable for growth at EGT, advised the Journal.
Contemplating what occurred when Musk fell in love with Dogecoin, which began off as a meme inventory till the billionaire took a liking to it and began tweeting about it, Sansalone’s concept is actually believable. At present, Dogecoin has a $12.5 billion market cap, in keeping with CoinMarketCap, and is ranked #8 of all crypto tokens. With a rank of #3010 and a market cap of $4.2 million, EGT has an extended approach to go.
In the long run, EGT didn’t go the way in which of Dogecoin. Musk by no means got here out to assert his $600,000 present. He didn’t acknowledge it on Twitter. Nonetheless, don’t suppose the sculpture goes into storage. The EGT staff plans to take it on tour and use it to create an “Elon Santa” for Christmas.
