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Although she effortlessly whacked Musk multiple times, Oates isn\u2019t overly concerned with the billionaire. She posts frequently on both BlueSky and X about a range of topics, and is more than happy to respond to fans and critics alike on the platforms. Since publicly humiliating Musk and sending him to a tizzy, she\u2019s gone on to tweet political musings about Zohran Mamdani,<\/strong><\/a> and Charlie Kirk<\/a>, as well as less fraught fare about Faulkner and Hemingway<\/a> and a photo of her beloved cat<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those who are new to the online life of Joyce Carol Oates may be surprised to learn that she\u2019s been doing these for years. At this point, she\u2019s arguably as prolific a poster as she is a novelist, logging more than 180,00 posts<\/a> on her official X account @JoyceCarolOates as of the publication of this story. Years ago, she was more likely to be the dunker than a dunkee: Oates experienced the other side of viral fame in 2014, when she loosed this hot take on another prolific but controversial writer. \u201cThough Woody Allen<\/strong> has been much denounced, very likely many of his denouncers greatly admire Nabokov\u2019s \u2018Lolita.\u2019\u201d No contradiction?\u201d she tweeted (it was still called tweeting back then)<\/a>. The false equivalency didn\u2019t go over well; at the time, the public flogged Oates for her support of Allen. \u201cThats not the same at all thats terrible youre terrible but thank you for inventing oatmeal,\u201d read one viral response, which ratioed Oates\u2019s original tweet. (And yes, despite her last name, Joyce Carol Oates didn\u2019t invent oatmeal.)<\/p>\n Years later, Oates made another Twitter faux pas, taking a gravely serious stance on innocent Halloween decorations. \u201cYou can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke,\u201d posted Oates on October 1, 2021<\/a>, drawing a wide variety of scornful reactions.<\/p>\n Oates kept posting through it\u2014and now it seems that was the correct strategy. Time heals all wounds on the internet\u2014time, and banger tweets that eviscerate the world\u2019s richest man. Joyce Carol Oates? More like Joyce Carol Roasts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n