--- title: Malala Yousafzai Sends Otherworldly Message to Elon Musk description: Malala Yousafzai and Elon Musk had a hilarious Twitter exchange thanks to a parody news story from satirical website Clickhole. canonical: https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-31T20:45:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:11.207Z og:title: People Lose It Over Malala Yousafzai and Elon Musk Bonding og:description: "This is my favorite thing on the entirety of the internet right now" og:url: https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492b8660d9ac784/69893200096a9448456a2949/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Malala-Yousafzai-Jo-Cox-Memorial og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Lose It Over Malala Yousafzai and Elon Musk Bonding twitter:description: "This is my favorite thing on the entirety of the internet right now" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492b8660d9ac784/69893200096a9448456a2949/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Losing It Over Malala Yousafzai's Otherworldly Message to Elon Musk  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 31, 2018 8:45 PM UTC  Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech on stage during a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox at Trafalger Square on June 22, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. Human rights activist Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech on stage during a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox at Trafalger Square on June 22, 2016 in London, United Kingdom.Dan Kitwood/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 31, 2018 8:45 PM UTC [Malala Yousafzai](http://time.com/5219928/malala-yousafzai-returns-to-pakistan/) and [Elon Musk](http://time.com/5289630/elon-musk-media-twitter-rant-tesla/) may both be celebrities in their own right, but as a human rights activist and billionaire CEO of a car company, they don’t usually have much cause to interact. However, thanks to a parody news story from satirical website Clickhole, that’s all changed. After Clickhole [tweeted](https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/1001887654294773760) out a link to an article with the headline, “More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai,” on Wednesday, Musk took to Twitter to joke about his imagined blunder. “Hell of a week,” Musk tweeted in response to the piece. But it was when Yousafzai herself chimed in that the fun really began. “Hello from the other side,” she tweeted, prompting a greeting featuring a ghost emoji from the Tesla creator. > [](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1002041479777406976) > [](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1002198347006922754) > [](https://twitter.com/Malala/status/1002225801427935233) Shortly afterwards, Twitter began losing it over the interaction. “I can’t stop laughing, it’s 11pm, my husband and kids think I’ve finally lost it,” wrote one delighted user. > [](https://twitter.com/SarahRubyWrites/status/1002173103437266944) See some more reactions below. > [](https://twitter.com/SMDamnH/status/1002173799893090304) > [](https://twitter.com/pkwilkins/status/1002226531526238209) > [](https://twitter.com/sleemol/status/1002175546573209601) > [](https://twitter.com/JAFOIAM/status/1002231477793411073) > [](https://twitter.com/B%5FM%5FFinnigan/status/1002186676918079488) > [](https://twitter.com/niquotein/status/1002235147582824448) > [](https://twitter.com/adele%5Fhasmywig/status/1002181684777897984) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/"},"headline":"People Are Losing It Over Malala Yousafzai's Otherworldly Message to Elon Musk","datePublished":"2018-05-31T20:45:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:11.207Z","description":"\"This is my favorite thing on the entirety of the internet right now\"","url":"https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","twitter","Elon Musk","Malala Yousafzai"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492b8660d9ac784/69893200096a9448456a2949/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf492b8660d9ac784/69893200096a9448456a2949/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Malala-Yousafzai-Jo-Cox-Memorial","caption":"Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech during a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox","creditText":"Dan Kitwood/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5297544/malala-yousafzai-elon-musk-twitter/","name":"People Are Losing It Over Malala Yousafzai's Otherworldly Message to Elon Musk"}}]}] ```