> Though, I must say that Xi Jinping in a bikini made me laugh.

I haven't seen Xi, but I am unfortunate enough to know that such an animated depiction of Maduro also exists.

These people are clearly doing it largely for shock value.

So it's basically 4chan now. Whatever gets reactions, anything goes.

Before Elon bought it out it was mostly possible to contain the hate with a carefully curated feed. Afterward the first reply on any post is some blue check Nazi and/or bot. Elon amplifying the racism by reposting white supremacist content, no matter how fabricated/false/misleading, is quite a signal to send to the rest of the userbase.

he's rigged the algorithm to boost content he interacts with, unbanned and stopped moderating nazi content and then boosted those accounts by interacting with them.