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Guinness World Records has just officiated Elon Musk, formerly known as the world’s richest man, as the biggest loser.

In terms of losing a personal fortune, that is.

Between you, me, and our record, Elon is the biggest loser of everything, everywhere, all at once, but we don’t really count for much so…

The global record-achievement tracking organisation made this announcement in a blog post after Forbes found that Musk lost a total of $183 billion.

Granted, the Twitter troll owner did make $320 billion in November 2021, which was a record achievement of its own.

Mashable explains how he made such a huge loss recently:

…things have turned sour for Musk since [2021] – Tesla shares, of which he still owns plenty (despite selling them frequently in the past year), have plummeted, and Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition only made things worse.

While Guinness World Records is aware that it’s impossible to accurately assess the exact number for Musk’s fortune loss, the organization says that it is surely far greater than the previous record, set by Japanese tech investor Masayoshi Son, who recorded a $58.6 billion loss in 2000.

Since Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are always sparring for first place of whatever (be it space travellers, moon landers, best billionaires, or total dipshits), it is worth mentioning that if it weren’t for Musk, Bezos would have taken this record spot for the biggest loser.

Bezos lost $85 billion in 2022. And Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was also the runner-up, having lost $77 billion recently.

The Tesla/SpaceX/Twitter CEO is now sitting with a still very cool net worth of about $137 billion.

As you know, this means that he has lost his status as the world’s richest man.

Now the honour belongs to LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) founder Bernard Arnault, worth an estimated $190 billion.

Don’t be sorry, none of these okes are sore or suffering for their losses.

[source:mashable]