Time magazine's Person of the Year decided to shoot for the stars while tweeting from his toilet.

Time magazine named Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as the 2021 Person of the Year.

"Musk has spent a lifetime defying the haters; now, it seems, he's finally in position to put them in their place. For 2021 was the year of Elon Unbound," writes Time in its profile of Musk released on Monday.

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Time pointed to Musk's influence throughout the world, including NASA's exclusive contract with SpaceX, Musk hosting Saturday Night Live in May, Hertz's plans to add 100,000 Tesla models to the rental fleet, offloading billions of dollars in stock based on a Twitter poll, and several other actions where Musk's words and actions have had significant influence. They also noted his newsmaking tweets, most of which are reportedly posted while Musk is on the toilet.


"Musk is easily cast as a hubristic supervillain, lumped in with the tech bros and space playboys, for whom money is scorekeeping and rockets are the ultimate toy," writes Time. "But he's different: he's a manufacturing magnate — moving metal, not bytes. His rockets, built from scratch on an autodidact's mold-breaking vision, have saved taxpayers billions, reinvigorated America's space dreams, and are launching satellites to expand Internet access across the globe."

Time also declared vaccine scientists the "Heroes of the Year." This group of medical scientists earned this title "not only because they gave the world a defense against a pathogen, but also because the manner of that astonishing achievement guards more than our health: they channeled their ambitions to the common good, talked to one another and trusted in facts."

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Last week, Time named Simone Biles the Athlete of the Year and Olivia Rodrigo the Entertainer of the Year.

In 2020, Time named President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the Person of the Year.