Cybertruck Discontinued Memes Arrived Faster Than Anyone Bought One

Before most of America was awake on Friday, Elon Musk posted one flat sentence on X saying Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for more Cybercab robotaxis. No farewell video, no slow lap around the factory, just a stainless steel truck getting dumped by text. The cybertruck discontinued memes started before breakfast, and I read every one of them in a parking lot instead of going into work.

Here Is What Actually Happened to the Cybertruck

Quick version, because people keep asking me if it’s gone already: it isn’t. The Texas plant is the only factory that builds the Cybertruck, and Musk says production there winds down around mid-2027 so the floor space can go to the two-seat Cybercab, with no word yet on whether it gets built anywhere else. Reuters’ report on Tesla winding down Cybertruck production puts U.S. sales down 48% in 2025. That caps a run that started with a 2019 reveal and has included a long list of recalls since.

Plenty of people treated the announcement like a final report card, and the grades were rough. Some of the sharpest Tesla memes leaned on the timing, since the news landed the same week as the election, and a few posters could not resist lining the two up. I stayed out of the politics and just enjoyed watching a pickup truck get dunked on from every direction at once.

The Design Never Got a Fair Shot, and It Did Not Need One

The oldest Cybertruck joke is that it looks like somebody forgot to finish rendering it, and the wind-down gave that joke a victory lap. @xWaceem answered the BBC with a stick figure driving a brown trapezoid and called it proof that designing in MS Paint doesn’t work. Somebody else swore they could beat it with graph paper and a ruler, which is exactly how I feel. I barely passed geometry and I still think I could have rounded off one corner.

Then the photo replies showed up. My favorite is a homemade knockoff built out of rusty corrugated roofing that somehow looks more road-ready than the real thing, and right behind it is a stainless steel urinal somebody nominated as the truck’s next career.

Cybertruck Owners Turned Into the Real Punchline

The meanest car memes of the weekend weren’t about the truck at all. They were about the people who bought one. @MikeDrucker was sad to lose such a handy way to spot the most gullible people in your parents’ neighborhood, and @FrankConniff called it an early warning system, with a ruder word in the middle. I’m not saying I agree, I’m just admitting I have slowed down at a green light to see who was driving one.

The sighting stories hit even harder because they sound real. One guy says there are about 20 in his area and everyone laughs when they roll by, and a Bluesky user in Toronto overheard a mom explaining the truck to her kid in one brutal sentence.

Not everyone kept it polite. A few replies went full scorched earth, comparing the truck to the Edsel and the Hummer, and one Bluesky thread got so harsh that the next reply said the poster owed the Hummer an apology.

These Cybertruck Memes Read Like a Eulogy

Under all the roasting, a few of the cybertruck discontinued memes felt almost nostalgic. @dieworkwear dug up a 2025 WIRED profile of owners where one said they weren’t married anymore because women don’t like the vehicle, which is the most honest thing anybody has ever said about a truck. Somebody else mourned the end of Cyberstuck season, and Todd in the Shadows admitted to thinking it was more popular, only because every sighting left a mark.

Here is the part I didn’t expect. Ever since that 2019 reveal, the Cybertruck was the one vehicle everybody on the road had an opinion about, the thing you pointed at so your buddy would look up from their phone. Nobody points at a Camry. It was ugly, it was loud about being ugly, and it gave a lot of strangers at a lot of stoplights something to laugh about together, which is more than most trucks will ever do.

The corrugated-metal knockoff has plenty of relatives in 27 Cybertruck Memes Roasting Everyone’s Favourite BRICK. Musk’s other flying hardware gets the same treatment in Tesla Flying Car Memes After the Roadster Flipped Over Five Other Teslas. And anyone who slowed down at a light to stare should read Car Memes Confirm That We Are All, Statistically, the Worst Drivers in Town, because it is about you.