Elon Musk accused of rage quitting whereas livestreaming a online game after repeatedly dying and being mercilessly cyberbullied by viewers

• Elon Musk, the world’s most influential entrepreneur in a era, was mercilessly jeered at by a web-based gaming viewers nonetheless indignant that he had so casually lied about dishonest at video video games.

Players haven’t but forgiven Elon Musk for mendacity so casually about being one of many top-ranked gamers on this planet for 2 completely different video video games, and on Saturday, they needed him to realize it. 

Throughout an try to livestream taking part in Path of Exile 2 from his non-public jet, the world’s richest man was mocked and jeered at mercilessly by his on-line viewers within the reside chat. 

Seemingly annoyed that he stored having to manually disguise the ridicule within the reside chat, the CEO mentioned his Starlink satellite tv for pc broadband wasn’t holding up below the load and referred to as it a day.

“Lost the connection,” he mentioned, repeating once more, “Connection lost” earlier than the stream ended.

Players, nevertheless, weren’t shopping for that story.

“He rage quit and blamed it on Starlink, what a dumb a–, dude,” Hasan Piker, a well-liked Twitch streamer with over 2.8 million followers, later advised his personal viewers. “This is one of the only instances where a man, who is so pathetic, will literally end up sh—ing on his other property because he’s so desperate to blame anything else.”

The Tesla CEO didn’t reply to Fortune’s request for remark.

Musk by no means apologized to avid gamers for the lie

In January, it emerged that Musk had cheated taking part in the video games he claimed to have mastered, hiring individuals to stage up his characters all of the whereas hiding the truth that he might barely play the video games, not to mention be amongst their prime performers. In a single occasion, his Path of Exile 2 character was caught taking part in on the similar time Musk was attending Donald Trump’s inauguration.

When his lie was discovered, he confirmed zero regret for occurring podcasts to take credit score for accomplishments he seemingly had nothing to do with and bask within the lavish reward from hosts Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman. He additionally didn’t see any have to apologize to a group that prides itself on respecting ability and dedication over social or financial standing.

Musk has been attempting to market his satellite-based broadband service Starlink, in addition to lure avid gamers from Amazon’s Twitch platform onto X, and it was in the midst of one in every of these streams {that a} PoE2 participant realized shortly he wasn’t simply incapable of competing with the opposite prime 5 gamers within the recreation worldwide, he barely even knew the sport’s important mechanics. 

This time, Musk took up the problem of a well-liked streamer to show he was certainly the semiprofessional gamer he claimed to be and began PoE2 from the very starting with basic-level gear relatively than essentially the most highly effective the sport has to supply.

‘He knows he’s a fraud’

Relatively than vindicate himself, although, Musk stored dropping, together with to the sport’s very first boss battle that new gamers encounter through the tutorial stage. 

“There’s no way he makes it out of Act 1, he’s just going to dying over and over and over again,” mentioned Quin, the Australian streamer who uncovered his dishonest within the first place. “He knows he’s a fraud.” 

By that time, viewers within the chatroom had been already tearing into him for his mendacity, making enjoyable of his seems, and throwing shade at his private life, with over a dozen confirmed kids from not less than three completely different girls. 

“YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND WILL DIE ALONE,” wrote one consumer whose account was referred to as “Elon_Musk_is_a_peedophile,” earlier than hitting return repeatedly so the message would maintain showing.

One other viewer made enjoyable of his admission final month the entrepreneur had paid right-wing influencer Ashley St. Clair $2.5 million so she might increase their baby in secret, claiming it might be safer for his or her son if nobody finds out he exists. She finally revealed their affair publicly, and later offered the Tesla he gave her after he minimize funds. 

“Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access just for this,” the consumer wrote in jest. “Please pay your child support.”

This story was initially featured on Fortune.com