Elon Musk just can't stop making headlines.
On Monday, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO attended the Met Gala in New York with Canadian musician and artist Grimes. The Met Gala, formally known as the Costume Institute Gala, is the star-studded annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
Grimes wore what looked like a choker designed after the Tesla T logo.
Omfg Elon Musk and Grimes have arrived pic.twitter.com/xs1qU9Vv6y
— Maeve McDermott (@maeve_mcdermott) May 8, 2018
a TESLA CHOKER? pic.twitter.com/5W4B3ShHZM
— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) May 8, 2018
why build rockets when those heels can reach mars pic.twitter.com/42wlMjk4Xa
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) May 8, 2018
The couple have been "quietly dating," the New York Post's Page Six column reported earlier Monday.
Representatives for Musk didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Grimes didn't immediately respond to a direct message to her Twitter account.
Grimes, who was born Claire Boucher, is working on her fifth album and is known for what AllMusic.com calls "her catchy yet genre-defying approach to music."
The two may have met thanks to a Twitter joke. The Post reports Musk had planned to tweet a joke about the thought experiment known as Roko's Basilisk, but reached out to Grimes after discovering she had made a similar joke.
"Grimes said this was the first time in three years that anyone understood the joke," an unnamed source told the Post. "They were both poking fun at AI."
Twitter users pointed out some recent online flirting between the two.
i mean pic.twitter.com/nlWW7ZksbF
— Sarah Emerson (@SarahNEmerson) May 7, 2018
The dating report comes after Musk recently grabbed headlines for floating his desire to launch a candy company and that suggesting he'll turn trash into bricks for low-income housing.
With the level of fame of both parties, jokes flew like Falcon rockets.
when he informs you that he told page six you‘re a couple pic.twitter.com/7hbjZRRRaS
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) May 8, 2018
i can't believe the backstory for grimes dating elon musk is even weirder than the basic concept of grimes dating elon musk pic.twitter.com/MVj2pgBH0T
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) May 7, 2018
REDISTRIBUTE HIS WEALTH, GRIMES
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) May 7, 2018
this is, somehow, the precise opposite of when serena williams found love with the reddit guy.
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) May 7, 2018
The first person you texted when you found out that Elon Musk is dating Grimes is your Apocalypse Buddy. They will be the one with whom you fight your way out of the city to join the Resistance in the hinterlands when the End comes.
— Adrian Chen (@AdrianChen) May 8, 2018
unfortunate that the first person i'm seeing irl after finding out about grimes and elon musk dating is my therapist, who doesn't know who either of these people are but is about to get an earful
— maya kosoff (@mekosoff) May 7, 2018
this is literally my normie future when i marry a computer programmer
— j_june_goth_ (@gthicbeachboy96) May 7, 2018
it turns out the reason not to check twitter before bed wasn’t someone accidentally hitting the nuclear button. jesus.
— Shona Ghosh (@shonaghosh) May 7, 2018
Can’t believe Elon Musk is dating controversial “Simpsons” character Frank “Grimey” Grimes
— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) May 7, 2018
elon musk is dating grimes because they both made the same terrible, nerd ass pun on twitter which on one hand is extremely relatable but on the other hand it makes them the worst people on planet earth and they should be imprisoned
— maple cocaine (@historyinflicks) May 7, 2018
Elon Musk dating Grimes is all the proof you need to know we’re in a simulation.
— Hungrybox (@LiquidHbox) May 7, 2018
Grimes wearing a Tesla choker at the #MetGala for Elon Musk is the modern version of Angelina Jolie wearing Billy Bob Thornton's blood in a vial around her neck pic.twitter.com/MFryNhv2xX
— Shira Tarlo (@shiratarlo) May 8, 2018
elon musk and grimes is so damn cursed it’s like when my friend’s dad started dating her volleyball teammate right after he divorced her mom
— vampire workday (@imbobswaget) May 8, 2018
Incredible pic.twitter.com/drdvnrBKeh
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) May 7, 2018
First published May 7, 4:50 p.m. PT.
Update, 5:45 p.m. PT: Adds Twitter reaction.
Update, 6:01 p.m. PT: Adds that the pair attended the Met Gala together.
