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Elon Musk has cultivated a significant cult following over the last decade. His work on electric cars at Tesla, space flight at SpaceX and neurotech at Neuralink has captured the imagination of nerds across the world, while his meming twitter persona has helped create a cult of personality who will not tolerate a bad word about Musk or his companies and business ventures. However, one of his strangest fans, who turned into the mother of his child and partner, was the artist Grimes. Grimes cultivated a fan base that was completely opposite to Musk’s. Growing up on the music of Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins at school, Grimes developed an inclusive and socially progressive audience that was the antithesis of fanbase around Musk. Raised on Sci-Fi novels like Dune, and fascinated by AI, Grimes was attracted to Elon based on a shared joke they both had about an obscure AI concept. In the past Grimes has spoken about income inequality, communism and even quoted Josef Stalin in her yearboo
