Betrayed by his own arrogance. Seeking to flirt with “gamers”, Tesla boss Elon Musk has long boasted of being an excellent player of video games, in particular RPGs, games where you choose how to improve your character in a scenario like increasing difficulty. But true fans of the genre recently unmasked what the community considered to be cheating, when Elon Musk attempted to demonstrate his talents live.
It all started at the beginning of November, just before the election of Donald Trump. The billionaire then indicates that he is part of the top 20 in the world on Diablo IVsupporting evidence by publishing the ranking. But Diablo IV is one of the most popular games of the genre, and its aficionados know that you have to invest a considerable amount of time to develop your character to this level. Time that the boss of Tesla, Space X and the social network The Parisian.
Caught in the act of incompetence
The doubt could have stayed there, becoming a vague subject of joke in the community Diablo IV. In 2022, Elon Musk also attracted a few jokes by sharing his character's inconsistent statistics on Elden Ringcalling it “the most beautiful art” he had ever seen. But the billionaire saw fit to more recently proclaim himself a high-level player on Path of Exile 2a game released… in December 2024. Here again, the statistics of the character he claims to play require a significant number of hours of play, hardly compatible in barely a month with the multiple activities of Donald Trump's now right-hand man. “He was 7th best player in the world in hardcore,” specifies videographer Antoine Daniel, recounting the anecdote on Twitch.
Worse, Elon Musk, wanting to highlight the possibility of now streaming on X, filmed himself playing live. Players quickly detected that he was in fact a beginner and collected evidence on the social network Reddit proving that he had not mastered the basic mechanics of Path of Exil 2like using the map to find your way in the open world of the game. And while he comments confusedly on his game, “he looks like a middle school student giving a book report on a book he's never read », tackles an observer. For most players, it then becomes undeniable that Elon Musk paid someone to “up” his character's stats for him, an unacceptable task for these fans.
-A clash with the streamer Asmongold
Content creators in turn mocked the billionaire's level of play. “Did Elon Musk play this account up to level 97? “, asked Twitch streamer Asmongold, with 3.5 million subscribers on YouTube. “The answer is very simple: no. » A remark that the boss of X did not digest, then publishing screenshots of exchanges between the two men. In these messages, Elon Musk asks Asmongold to stream on X, or to publish clips there.
The latter, also a fan of the billionaire, explains that he must coordinate with his “editors”, a term to designate the editors he employs, traces the French streamer AngleDroit on BlueSky. Except that Elon Musk misunderstands this term and accuses Asmongold of being in the pay of a “publishing director”, another translation for “editors” but reserved for the field of journalism, and took revenge on the streamer in him removing your certified blue checkmark on social network X. Or how to alienate the community you are trying to seduce for a little ego.
