Last night’s South Park episode depicted a shirtless Bill Gates — revealing the Microsoft co-founder to have a tattoo reading “RIP Steve Jobs 2011.”
A screen capture taken from the episode — which concerned warring Black Friday factions fighting over next-generation games consoles — was quickly circulated on Twitter.
Bill Gates had a “RIP Steve Jobs 2011” tattoo in last night’s episode of South Park. pic.twitter.com/VCy1OquZD1
— Stefan Constantine (@WhatTheBit) December 5, 2013
A previous episode showed Gates ordering the assassination of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, proclaiming that, “Weakness is believing that competition is healthy.”
A caricature of Jobs was featured in a 2011 episode of South Park entitled “HUMANCENTiPAD.”
Source: South Park
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
