Monkeys in Brazil, building a bridge to escape the rain,
created a scene that caught the attention of many viewers.
The video is going viral on Instagram, and we can learn something positive from this narrative.
FUCKING MILLIONS VIEWS
Proff:
7M
https://t.co/hqglamse7i
3M
https://t.co/ZdEtAly11m
THE @elonmusk TIKTOK ACCOUNT: WHY IT MIGHT BE REAL
Today, April 8, 2026, a verified TikTok account with the handle @elonmusk appeared, containing a single video a monologue about the future that went explosively viral: 2.5 million views in just 4 hours.
Watch it here: https://t.co/DClkbZif23
The account being verified, appearing without warning, and concentrated on a single high-production video raises an obvious question: is it really Elon Musk?
Looking at Musk's recent moves around TikTok and its current US owners, there are several circumstantial clues that make this hypothesis plausible. Not proof — but a consistent pattern.
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TRUMP WANTED MUSK AS THE TIKTOK BUYER IN JANUARY 2025
On January 21, 2025, at a White House press conference, President Donald Trump publicly said he was open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok. Asked directly "would you be in favor of Elon buying TikTok?", Trump answered: "I would be if he wanted to buy it, yes" — and added: "I'd like Larry to buy it, too."
Sources:
Bloomberg: https://t.co/cLXKVsS7Q0
CNBC: https://t.co/DjTLXPhqgC
Trump's pitch was specific: whoever bought it should "buy it and give half to the United States." He said TikTok would be "worthless" without a US permit — but with one, it could be worth $1 trillion
(TechCrunch: https://t.co/rLk725LYBT).
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BEIJING ALSO CONSIDERED MUSK AS AN OPTION
A week earlier, on January 14, 2025, Bloomberg reported that Chinese officials were evaluating selling TikTok's US operations to Musk as one option, if ByteDance lost its US legal battle. The discussed scenario had X (formerly Twitter) taking over TikTok US and running both businesses together.
Source: https://t.co/2nkKXPnIdt
Geopolitically, it made sense: Musk has heavy China exposure (Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory) and proximity to Trump — an "acceptable ally" for both sides. TikTok called the report "pure fiction"
(Al Jazeera: https://t.co/ZewOQhgrFy).
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MUSK PUBLICLY DECLINED — BUT WITH CAVEATS
In late January 2025, at the WELT Economic Summit, Musk said: "I have not put in a bid for TikTok and I don't have any plans for what I would do if I had TikTok," adding that he "usually builds companies from scratch"
(Fortune: https://t.co/KUer2oEvMM).
Notably, he never said he would never use the platform — only that he wouldn't buy it.
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THE FINAL DEAL: TWO CLOSE MUSK ALLIES TOOK 30% OF TIKTOK US
The deal was signed in December 2025 and formalized as TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC on January 22, 2026, with Oracle (15%), Silver Lake (15%), MGX (15%), and ByteDance (<20%). Musk has no formal equity — but two of the three main American buyers have strong, current ties to him.
ORACLE (15%) — LARRY ELLISON
The second half of Trump's wish ("I'd like Larry to buy it, too") came true. And Ellison is Musk's closest billionaire ally:
Considered a personal mentor to Musk and frequently hosts him on his private island of Lanai
(Fortune: https://t.co/Dk5Id0JVd0).
Invested $1 billion in Musk's Twitter acquisition in 2022 (Wikipedia: https://t.co/btcfygMdrj).
Sat on Tesla's board from 2018 to 2022 (TIME: https://t.co/dOfrEJCQrA).
Oracle signed AI infrastructure contracts with Musk's xAI in 2025-2026, alongside OpenAI, Meta, and Nvidia
(Benzinga: https://t.co/yg4eyqIFQs).
MGX (15%) — ABU DHABI FUND
Perhaps the most revealing connection in terms of capital flow. MGX is chaired by Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's national security advisor and brother of the country's president (CNBC: https://t.co/8BYoPVkLYf).
At the same time it was entering TikTok:
It anchored xAI's Series E, which raised $20 billion in January 2026, alongside the Qatar Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Cisco (AGBI: https://t.co/J7y831ez6v).
It joined a consortium with Nvidia, Microsoft, and xAI that bought Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion (CNBC, link above).
It hosted Musk in December 2025, when he met UAE leaders to discuss Tesla FSD, AI partnerships, and the Dubai Loop project (JobXDubai: https://t.co/2VbuB08isu).
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WHY THIS CONNECTS TO TODAY'S VIRAL ACCOUNT
Connecting the dots, the appearance of a verified @elonmusk account on TikTok today is not as random as it first seems:
Trump publicly asked Musk to buy TikTok in January 2025.
Beijing considered Musk an acceptable buyer.
Musk declined to buy — but 30% of the new TikTok US ended up with his two closest allies: Ellison/Oracle and MGX/Abu Dhabi, both active xAI co-investors.
In January 2026 (the same month TikTok USDS was formalized), xAI closed its $20B Series E with MGX participating — one of TikTok US's actual owners.
Now, in April 2026, a verified @elonmusk account appears with a single video about the future, doing 2.5M views in 4 hours — a level of algorithmic promotion that would be hard to call accidental on a platform whose majority US owners (Oracle + MGX) are direct financial partners of Musk.
Watch the video: https://t.co/DClkbZif23
There is no public proof the account is personally run by Musk but the ecosystem built over the last 15 months creates the perfect conditions for him to enter TikTok with preferential treatment. If the account is authentic, it's the natural endpoint of a sequence: Musk stayed out of the purchase, but his allies got the company and now he steps in as a creator, not an owner.
https://t.co/DClkbZif23
We’re sending Chicky but $Decha has way more views, 80m on single videos and 100s of millions total
Decha is the dancing bunny and it’s Easter time? This is so coded
https://t.co/0Y0NaQbZv7
Found this sheep straight dunking on a little girl at the Houston Rodeo.
It threw her off, then turned around and jumped right over her while she was sitting in the dirt.
The official RodeoHouston post said “Intrusive thoughts won” and it’s going super viral with millions of views.
Big accounts like Barstool Sports and House of Highlights shared it too (links below).
https://t.co/UIoEt5oWeh
https://t.co/Bv6jCJal4M
https://t.co/hRHs8aJc4L https://t.co/SjXGj7KbxU
Turning that moment into $SHEEP
Everyone is spamming Q
This is the obvious meme runner in this new meta.
All the normies can understand and it's literally the next big cult
Q. More here - https://t.co/cytv7WdSME