June 27, 2025, 8:03 a.m. | By East Coast Breakfast ALSO READ: Busted! The wild story of a 22-year-old fake dentist This isn’t Elon’s first anti-hashtag rant. Back in December 2024, he called them “ugly” and said the system didn’t need them anymore. Why? Artificial Intelligence (AI), of course. X’s discovery tools (powered by Elon’s AI project Grok) are apparently smart enough now to group topics and trends without needing hashtags. So while hashtags have been a thing since 2007 (RIP #ThrowbackThursday), the platform’s new AI brain thinks it can do better without them. What are users saying? As expected, the X-verse had thoughts. While some folks shrugged it off, others raised more pressing platform problems that maybe deserved attention first: “What about bots? Isn’t that a bigger aesthetic nightmare?” It really is, to be honest. “Fix how the app scrolls by itself when I’m trying to read a post, please.” The worst part about this is scrolling past everything else, trying to find that post again, with no luck. “The real issue is clickbait threads posted just for payouts - it’s getting ridiculous.” Not as ridiculous as all those threads though. Each of these users make very good points.