Internet erupts in memes predicting Gmail’s downfall after Musk hints at Gmail launch

Elon Musk teased the Internet with an X post about “Xmail” as a potential rival to Gmail, sparking trolling among fans and critics.

Musk doubled down on a conversation he started earlier in February when he claimed to be developing a new email service called Xmail that apparently comes for Gmail’s 1.8 billion users.

“When we do XMail?” asked X security engineer Nate McGrady, to which Musk replied, “It’s coming.”

Today, Musk resumed the conversation and set his sights on Gmail, which is owned by Google. The topic quickly became the no. 2 trending conversation on X with 22,600 posts talking about it.

“Interesting,” Musk wrote on X. “We need to rethink how messaging, including email, works in general.”

Musk wrote his response after Nima Owji, an independent app researcher, commented: “Having an @x.com email address is the only thing that can stop me from using Gmail!”

The post had 16.9 million views after it was published at 12:46 p.m. Sunday.

Musk’s news was met with humor, with many memes believing the idea of ​​abandoning Gmail for Xmail, given X’s questionable key changes about collecting users’ biometric data.

“X wants ppl to replace their GMAL with X mail,” said user, @TrumpDownfall in one X postsand followed by a meme of Natasha Robinson and Amanda Seales laughing hysterically in a scene from the TV show Uncertain.

A user named @KirbyMiningCo said in an X post, “No one is throwing away their Gmail accounts for an Xe mail service lol.”

While some users on X were ready to sign up for Musk’s undeveloped Xmail account, general consent was not favorable to Musk on Reddit.

“Ha, and I can’t stress that enough, ha,” said commenter, DeliciousPumpkinPie, 10 months ago on the Subreddit r/technologywho published “Elon Musk takes on Gmail with the new Gmail service.”

“Yes, it’s hard to pass on,” said one anonymous commenter with over 200 upvotes Redditwhile another commenter asked: “Who (expletive) would trust this person with their email?”

According to Express TribuneGmail makes up 30.70 percent of the e-mail market with Apple Mail leads with 53.67 per cent. About 10 percent use Outlook, Google Android and Yahoo! Mail.