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Tesla's 'flying' Roadster unveil hijacks crypto X: memecoins, FOMO launches and one big skeptic thread

By NSA Intelligence · Report published

peakedflying car
Peak / day29tracked accounts
Peak dayFriOct 16 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day—not measured outside the panel
Cited claims111 dropped by automated checks
Market—no token attached

Attention

Who was talking, day by day

Oct 11 – Oct 17 UTC
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What happened

@watcherguru posted that Elon Musk's Tesla $TSLA officially unveiled a new flying Roadster @uncledividends quote-posted that claim asking 'Someone please tell me if this is real????' and calling it mind blowing @jden_xx said there are 'so many flying car token on fomo' and that in a peak bull market they would be over 100M MC

+ 8 more in the evidence register ↓

Why it matters

It shows how fast a hardware-adjacent Musk announcement becomes a crypto trading narrative: within a day, traders were hunting 'flying car' tickers on launchpad fomo and benchmarking them against the 100M MC they'd expect in a hot market. For a crypto-native daily account, the nuance to hold is that the 'flying car' framing is a claim by the accounts relaying it, not verified product fact — the same thread contains genuine skepticism.

Observed reaction

Split and mostly joke-forward: mocking meme replies and 'is it even flying?' skepticism are as prominent as the bullish framing, and the traders among them are bearish on their own bags ($FTR under 40m, flying-car tokens underperforming peak-bull expectations) rather than on Tesla.

Spread

Where it started and who carried it

First seen
Oct 13, 16:41 UTC by @justdream
Accounts
26 tracked · 9 elsewhere on X
Communities
memecoins solana (8), bitcoin (3), perps trading (3), ai crypto (3)
Key accounts
@starplatinum_, @polymarket, @kalshi, @whodoyousee1, @koolkrypto223

Explainability

Evidence register

Every claim links to the posts behind it
01

@watcherguru posted that Elon Musk's Tesla $TSLA officially unveiled a new flying Roadster

[1]
02

@uncledividends quote-posted that claim asking 'Someone please tell me if this is real????' and calling it mind blowing

[1]
03

@jden_xx said there are 'so many flying car token on fomo' and that in a peak bull market they would be over 100M MC

[1]
04

@blockenthusiast said the kickflip is not flying and that people can be impressed without calling it a flying car, which he argues it is not

[1]
05

@web3tokenomics said he woke up to a flying car and asked whether it is actually flying or jumping

[1]
06

@pavelthedev posted a POV meme about buying the new Tesla Roadster while saying he is already tired of the flying car talk all over X

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07

@saucestaja joked that 'we got a flying car before gta6'

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08

@augustbtc quoted a post claiming 'we just witnessed history' and called Elon a genius for the first flying car, tagging $TSLA and $SPCX

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09

@luigithetweak asked whether rich people have considered inventing things normal people can actually use instead of a flying car

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10

@dahviemaxi said the Tesla flying car memes are killing him

[1]
11

@cryptomatt1983 posted that the Roadster is more like a Model T and that Kaspa is the flying car, tagging $KAS

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Angles

  • Reaction roundup: the funniest 5 replies under @watcherguru's flying Roadster post, credited to @uncledividends, @saucestaja, @dahviemaxi and @pavelthedev
  • 'Flying car tokens on fomo' explainer — what launchpad tokens actually rode the phrase and what MC they hit, using @jden_xx's 100M-peak-bull benchmark as the framing
  • Claim-check card: what @watcherguru actually posted vs. the 'it's not flying, it's a kickflip' rebuttals from @blockenthusiast and @web3tokenomics

Formats in use

  • quote-tweet of @watcherguru's announcement
  • reaction meme images/GIFs
  • one-line joke posts ('we got a flying car before GTA6')
  • POV meme with image
  • MC comparison/valuation dunk

Risks

  • The 'flying Roadster' claim comes from a third-party account (@watcherguru) relaying a Musk/Tesla announcement — do not state it as verified product fact, and never quote it as a price call on $TSLA
  • 'Flying car' memecoins on fomo are speculative launchpad tokens; naming them is fine, but no MC predictions and no 'buy' framing
  • The card's in-group tone could read as celebrating a 'we got X before GTA6' meme format — keep the joke attributed rather than presented as our reporting
  • Do not imply Elon Musk personally launched anything crypto-related; this is a Tesla product story that crypto accounts repurposed

Observed content

Most-engaged posts

6 posts on X
UN@uncledividends20 likes
Someone please tell me if this is real???? THIS IS MIND BLOWING Tesla’s new FLYING Car the Roadster?!
Open on X →
_T@_twentyx19 likes
Okay so we literally had a flying car presented to the world And we couldn’t send $FTR over 40m ? Better be a delayed push or market is just wrong
Open on X →
JD@jden_xx17 likes
so many flying car token on fomo if its was peak bull market, these would be over 100M MC. https://t.co/iKODDEy4Dj
Open on X →
LU@luigithetweak16 likes
A flying car is nice but have rich people ever considered inventing stuff that normal people can actually use?
Open on X →
PA@pavelthedev13 likes
POV: you bought the new Tesla Roadster I'm already tired of this flying car all over X lol. But this one is fucking funny. https://t.co/RqNfz8yMYh
Open on X →
SA@saucestaja7 likes
We got a “flying” car before gta6 https://t.co/8LR5Qixlb6
Open on X →

History

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