Trent Reznor Quits Twitter, Will get Referred to as ‘Crybaby’ by Elon Musk

9 Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor says he is leaving Twitter quickly in response to what he referred to as “the vanity of the billionaire class.”

The social media platform has been embroiled in controversy since Tesla tycoon Elon Musk purchased it for $44 billion after a number of months of attempting to get out of the deal. He fired the board after which dismissed an unknown variety of staff in any respect ranges by locking them out of their work accounts. He set a deadline of final Thursday for remaining employees to join “hardcore” lengthy hours, or they’d be thought to be having resigned and be given three months’ severance pay.

After staging a public ballot, Musk then reactivated the account of former president Donald Trump, who stays below investigation for a sequence of crimes together with stealing secret authorities papers and inspiring the sedition that led to U.S. Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021.

“I’m about to depart,” Reznor advised the Hollywood Reporter in a brand new interview. “We don’t want the vanity of the billionaire class to really feel like they’ll simply are available and remedy the whole lot. Even with out him concerned, I simply discover that it has turn out to be such a poisonous setting.” He added, “For my psychological well being, I must tune out. I don’t really feel good being there anymore.”

Musk addressed Reznor’s departure on Monday morning in response to a tweet from @catturd2 that learn, “Breaking … 48 hours since @elonmusk reinstated President Trump’s Twitter account and the world nonetheless hasn’t ended.”

“And it seems that Trent ‘9 inch nails’ Reznor is definitely a crybaby,” tweeted Musk, who not too long ago threatened to completely droop any accounts that have been caught impersonating different folks (particularly him) with out specifying their parody standing.

Reznor is not the primary large identify to give up Twitter – and it’s not the primary time he’s executed it. When he closed his account for the second time in 2009, he defined that the platform’s system for blocking aggressive posts was restricted as a result of even when he blocked a follower, the tweets in query might nonetheless be learn. “It depresses me to assume my artwork and life’s work can entice this sort of scum,” he stated. “If that was your intention, you trolling, cowardly pigs – you’ve succeeded.”