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This year has been totally peculiar. With the start of Hollywood strikes, the audience rejected Hollywood tentpoles likeMission: ImpossibleandIndiana Jones.
There was another instance that happened in July when theStar Warsactor Mark Hamill almost led his followers to declare war against the CEO of Tesla Motors.
Mark Hamill called out his Twitter followers to boycott X and go against Elon Musk. It’s because he was rebranding the platform from Twitter to X at that time.
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Mark Hamill Declared a Digital War Against Elon Musk
On July 30,Mark Hamillencouraged his users to stop tweeting on August 1. The legendary actor retweeted a post by a user named Sgt Pepper, who proposed the“‘Tweet Out’ day.”
The star wrote in the retweet,“This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday. Let’s show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book!”
This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a#TweetlessTuesday. Let’s show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book! 👀#August1stTweetOutDayhttps://t.co/0apu2XsbAC
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill)July 11, 2025
Although the Hollywood actor had no other intention or grudges againstElon Muskbehind his post, he later elaborated that he was “bored.”
Yes right. In a follow-up post, after Hamill proposed a boycott, he downplayed his emotions and wrote,“I won’t dignify accusations that this is a political statement when it is, in fact, simply an experimental STUNT because I’m bored & wanna see what happens.”
The Twitter CEO officially rebranded the platform to X on July 24. This ultimately renamed tweets to posts.
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Mark Hamill Had Also Previously Insulted Twitter’s New Logo
Mark Hamill was one of the leading voices who lashed out at Musk over his major changes to Twitter in a not-so-political statement and later called it out an experimental stunt.
The actor also insulted Twitter’s new logo in July by sharing a picture of the X at the company’s offices in San Francisco. Making fun of Twitter’s new name and logo, hetweeted,“Has everybody seen the (eXecrable) new logo?”The California native also tweeted the hashtags“ByeByeBirdie”and“TaTaTwitter.”
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Unrelated to Hamill, it later came out that the SpaceX founder threatened to sue a research company. The issue stemmed after the company found a surge in hate speech on Twitter since Musk acquired it last year.
Shreya Jha
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Meet Shreya, FandomWire’s go-to Pop-Culture Writer. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and a pop culture obsession that rivals even the most die-hard ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel fans.Her articles have been published in Animated Times, Creator Mail, and The Luxxe Mag. When Shreya’s not busy dishing out hot takes, she is lost in the world of rom-coms.
