A screenshot of Twitter shows Ian Miles Cheong posting an article titled "Dave Chappelle skewers San Francisco's downfall, blames woke leadership: 'what the f*** happened to this place?" Cheong captions his tweet with the headline title. In reply, Musk tweeted, "Rightly so. The disaster that is downtown SF, once beautiful and thriving, now a derelict zombie apocalypse, is due to the woke mind virus." The tweet was posted on May 15, 2023 at 7:28pm. Musk's reply was posted on the 16th at 12:52am.