A satire website, Clickhole.com published an article this past Wednesday; the headline screamed, “More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai.”
The hilarious piece went on to read, “According to reports, Yousafzai had been taking a walk outside her Birmingham, England home when the bright red sports car came careening down from 70 miles above the Earth’s surface to land right on top of her…”
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Apparently, Clickhohe.com’s readers were not the only ones who were amused. Malala Yousafzai, who is of course, alive and healthy also read the piece and decided to create some jest of her own.
“Hello from the other side,” she tweeted Elon Musk along with the link to the article.
Hello from the other side 😳 @elonmusk https://t.co/pRTnyptZ1N
— Malala (@Malala) May 31, 2018
Soon after, (going by the emojis at the end of the tweet, a gleefully flustered) Elon Musk responded with “Hi.”
Hi @Malala! 💕👻😅
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2018
But more than anything else, it was Malala’s witty response that had the internet in splits.
I’m keeping the car btw! 😉🚘
— Malala (@Malala) May 31, 2018
The viral thread literally had the entire world contributing to the convo.
https://twitter.com/RoseBach4/status/1002237172450299909
https://twitter.com/SarahRubyWrites/status/1002173103437266944
You see … and THIS is how satire is replied to!
Also well played!— YYTweeter (@ThatYYTGuy) May 31, 2018
Even Malala’s brother, Khushal Yousafzai also chipped in…
You are too funnyyy sometimes 😂😂
— Khushal Yousafzai (@KhushalYusafzai) May 31, 2018
…prompting Malala to hit back with another hilarious tweet.
— Malala (@Malala) May 31, 2018
Coming back to the original conversation, the Twitter banter between Malala Yousafzai And Elon Musk concluded with the latter yielding to the former’s claim on the space car.
Finders keepers 🚀🚀🚀 https://t.co/zyV71zRIFQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2018
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