Elon Musk really shouldn't have asked Twitter for its 'dankest memes'

Elon Musk asked Twitter to send him the "dankest memes." Twitter delivered. Elon Musk asked Twitter to send him the "dankest memes." Twitter delivered. Photo: Screenshot / Twitter Photo: Screenshot / Twitter Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close Elon Musk really shouldn't have asked Twitter for its 'dankest memes' 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

Another day, another zany Elon Musk tweet.

"Send me your dankest memes!!" he requested of the interwebs around 11 a.m.

Perhaps since stepping down as chairman of Tesla, he has more time for the finer things in life (i.e. lots and lots of memes).

Predictably, the Twitterverse delivered. Users replied to the tweet with thousands of memes, many of them taking aim at Musk himself.

It's far from the first time the CEO's Twitter habits have gotten him in trouble. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Musk and Tesla for misleading shareholders after he tweeted he was considering taking the company private.

Musk's tweet had more than 17,000 comments in under an hour. Click through the slideshow to see some of the most popular responses.

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