Jeff Bezos Memes, Jokes Flood Online Immediately after He Announces Travel to Place: ‘Big Divorced Man Move’

A flood of jokes and memes hit Twitter on Monday just after Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he and his brother, Mark Bezos, will be flying to room on July 20. The journey will take place 15 times just after Bezos methods down as Amazon’s CEO.

Jeff and Mark Bezos will vacation aboard a spacecraft engineered by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space journey corporation. The trip will very last 11 minutes and fly 62 miles above Earth’s surface. One of the spacecraft’s 6 seats will also be auctioned off. Its bid is now over $2.8 million.

When some Twitter buyers expressed awe and aid of his impending vacation, several some others created jokes about the CEO’s “true” explanation for viewing place, employing his personalized existence and the criticisms of small business as joking content.

@EversoleMitch wrote, “Ultimately my desire arrived genuine”.

@mckelmer wrote, “You should not occur back again, @JeffBezos.” Elmer was merely just one of the a lot of commenters who wished for Bezos in no way to return.

Comedian @PFTompkins wrote, “Now he will lastly know what it is like to have no option but to piss in a bag”. The comment was a reference to experiences before this calendar year that Amazon’s workers had to urinate inside of of bottles in buy to help save time when doing the job. Amazon forcefully denied the stories until eventually later on admitting that it does take place.

@SaysSimonson wrote, “Bezos launching himself into area on an experimental rocket is a large divorced guy transfer”. The joke referenced Bezos’ imminent divorce from his spouse, declared in January.

Another user, @mbalazo, also riffed on the divorce, asking, “Hmm I wonder why the not long ago one Jeff Bezos is heading to house???” He then connected a Google Picture look for results for “pretty aliens.” The final results confirmed scantily clad woman aliens from well-liked science-fiction movies like Star Trek, The Fifth Aspect and Guardians of the Galaxy.

@davenewworld_2 wrote, “When me or you have a midlife crisis, we get a new motor vehicle. When Jeff Bezos has a midlife disaster, he goes to room.”

@swindsor wrote, “Perhaps Jeff Bezos, his very best good friend, girlfriend, and girlfriend’s brother going into place is the Superb Four reboot we’ve been ready for.”

The joke is a reference to the Marvel Comics superhero crew. The workforce is made up of four experts who all attain superpowers soon after currently being exposed to cosmic rays whilst travelling in area.

@DcComicstr_1 also made a comedian e book reference, producing, “Lex luthor fancast:
@JeffBezos”. The Twitter person posted an picture of Bezos next to one of Lex Luthor—a tremendous-rich DC Comics supervillain who utilizes slicing-edge technological innovation in his techniques. Both of those Jeff Bezos and Luther are bald.

@anityle joked, “jeff bezos is heading to room to pay back off the intergalactic trillionaire warlord x ae a-xii”.

@megturney produced a prediction, writing, “So….Jeff Bezos is just randomly saying he is going into place subsequent 7 days? I have obtained $20 one thing blows up though he is long gone. Or aliens. Or aliens blow a little something up. Anything.”

@actdottv wrote, “What a globe we dwell in… #JeffBezos.” The account then shared an graphic depicting Bezos’ as Dr. Evil, the place-certain supervillain of the Austin Powers spy spoof motion picture series. In the movies, Dr. Evil usually makes foolish requires in trade for not destroying the planet.

Bezos’ “needs” stated in @actdottv’s image referenced Amazon’s past payments of $ in U.S. federal income tax, Bezos’ $1.2 billion custom made-crafted yacht (which incorporates a more compact yacht inside of it), Amazon’s opposition to unionizing its employees, reports of enterprise personnel not obtaining time for rest room breaks and the Senate’s Unlimited Frontier Act, which could award $10 billion of taxpayer funds to Blue Origin.

@Jason_Sheppard_ wrote, “Future month Jeff Bezos is heading to area. Huge whoop. Subsequent thirty day period I’m heading here.” He bundled an image of a McDonald’s quickly-meals cafe.

@Volscente79 wrote, “Jeff instruction” and incorporated an animated GIF of a guy in sneakers and denims using atop a tiny rocket as it travels through the stars.

@dadiomov wrote, “Unusual picture of Jeff Bezos logging into Expedia in 1998 hoping to search for a flight to house. Technological innovation has come a extensive way.” He integrated an impression of Jeff Bezos employing a desktop computer system in an place of work with a spray-painted banner on the wall studying “amazon.com”. The graphic likely will come from the Amazon CEO’s before days commencing his online organization.

Newsweek contacted Amazon for remark.