Hashtags are tickets to nowhere: Elon Musk urges everyone to stop using hashtags, calls them ugly

Hashtags were made for creating labels for machine learning by the masses, now that’s done, so they don’t need it anymore and are abandoning it. However, they have now mattered less and less over the last couple of years.

As per reports, hashtags weren’t too helpful because users would just spam irrelevant tags in their posts. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has also announced that hashtags are ugly and urged everyone to avoid using hashtags.

“Please avoid using hashtags. The system doesn’t need them anymore and they look ugly,” Elon Musk shared while reacting to a post on hashtags.

Please stop using hashtags. The system doesn’t need them anymore and they look ugly. https://t.co/GKEp1v1wiB

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2024

The post read, “Oh, by all means, don’t use hashtags on X. They’ve become about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. You know, because nothing screams ‘I’m trying too hard’ like a tweet littered with hashtags, each one like a desperate cry into the void of the internet where your content will absolutely not get lost among the other million posts using #blessed or #justgirlythings.”

It further read, “But, if you really want to watch your engagements plummet like a stone into the abyss, go ahead, fill your posts with hashtags. It’s not like X has evolved into a place where the algorithm punishes you for being too eager to be seen. Just remember, in the grand scheme of the digital obscurity, hashtags are your ticket to nowhere. Enjoy the silence.”