The engineer who was summarily terminated after publicly pushing back on Elon's tweets about app performance responded to the news that he had been fired (also via tweet) with the salute emoji. Seems like it's become a meme among Twitter employees headed for the exits.
Yes I saw that. Was he first, and others followed? Or was he just following an already established tradition?
I wonder if it's related to the EVE Online meme of o7 (ascii salute)
Employees started using it when the first proper rounds of layoffs were happening