There is a cohort of people who probably don’t follow politics as much as we do, who probably don’t watch television as much as we do, and who have only known the hype surrounding Enron Musk.
These folks are gamers.
They like to play video games and talk about video games. They can spend hours every day playing, and if they are good enough, they can play professionally. If they have an engaging personality, they can upload videos or livestreams of their video game play. That’s right, you can watch somebody else play a video game and talk about the game or any other random thing.
Enron Musk has always courted this group, probably because some of them will be the techies of the future. Maybe because he wants to be NerdLord. I don’t know. To court this group of people, though, Musk has said some crazy things.
On one of Joe Rogan’s podcasts, Enron said he was into the video game Diablo, and that he was ranked in the top twenty in the world. Very recently, he was caught in an entire web of fabrications that may doom his relationship to the gaming community.
YouTube and Twitch and other communities have blown up in the last couple of days about this scandal in the gaming world. You see, it appears that Enron has found a new game to play, and, of course, he is already one of the best in the world at it. Unfortunately, he decided to livestream his play.
This is just one of the many videos on YouTube about these Musk lies, and, in four days, it has already garnered 4.5 million views:
The basic allegation is this: Musk pays a ringer to play a video game for hundreds of hours. The gaming community calls this “portering” or “stolen e-valor.” They call it portering because it is remindful of the Sherpas who do all the hard work to bring somebody up Mt. Everest.
Once the ringer has attained all the necessary levels to be in the top ten or twenty in the world, Enron takes over and streams himself playing a level or a map.
Unfortunately for Musk and MAGA, his recent livestream of a map on Path of Exile showed him playing so poorly, gamers took notice. They point to an absolute ton of evidence which shows that Musk had nowhere near the knowledge or ability to attain such a high level in the game.
They are calling him a fraud, and the evidence backs up those claims. I will give you one of many, many examples: Musk in the stream states that his character is at level 92, but he complains that his jacket is only level 56, his staff is only level 63 and so on. What he would know if he’d played the game for any length of time is that the game developers used the word “level” in two different ways.
First, there is the level your avatar has attained, which is your current level. As for the accessories, the developers used the word level to describe what level you had to reach to first obtain the accessories like that jacket and that staff.
The gamers were laughing out loud because Enron should’ve known that if he had actually played the game and because the accessories he was bemoaning were actually outstanding. His porters had done a really good job to get him up this mountain! He also should’ve known that just because they were listed as level 56 or level 63 items didn’t mean they weren’t the absolute best available.
As the video above demonstrates, scientists were the first to call out Musk for his bullshit. There were the never-ending promises that “full self-driving will be available next year” and the plan to get to the Moon in 2024 and to Mars in 2026, now 2029.
Then, there is the billion trillion dollar industry that will fall into his lap when his robot, empowered with AI, and not somebody speaking into a microphone in that building over there, DO NOT GO INTO THAT BUILDING OVER THERE! DON’T YOU SEE THE “NO TRESPASSING” SIGNS?, is used in every home around the world. Yet, at a recent robotics conference, Musk kept his Optimus robot in a glass case, while the rest of the industry leaders were parading their much better—and more advanced—models around the convention space.
The same goes with some financial gurus, who are starting to see the shell game or, in my opinion, future rug pull, that is the Musk suite of companies. The questions that I’m left with are how long will MAGA stick with him when his only positive (in their eyes) is that he’s an uber-racist (unless it affects his business model)? And how long will stockholders stick behind the stock?
UPDATE: Not satisfied with slinking into a corner and ignoring the fact of his exposure as a video game cheater by multiple video game YouTube personalities, Enron has fought back. What he has done so far has already caused some of the leading voices in the gaming community to call him “sad” and “pathetic” and a “beta cuck bitch.”
So, what has he done?
Well, Musk took away the blue checkmark of a gaming influencer who commented on the situation, and he also took away their Twitter “gaming credentials,” whatever that is. In my opinion, this will seriously damage any cred that Enron had in that community. He is now viewed as a gaming fraud and cheater and thin-skinned child-man.
Moreover, the people who called him out are getting a tremendous response in terms of clicks and likes on YouTube (and presumably on Twitch and other platforms). What might that mean for the future? Gamers have tasted Enron blood, and they like it.
They now know that they can attack Musk for copious amounts of YouTube clicks and likes, which translates into dollars and status in that community. Even getting your Twitter blue checkmark taken away by the tiny baby-man will be seen as the new status symbol.
I’m going to harken back to that social media post from Rod Hilton that is displayed above, and risk enraging the duplicative redundancy gods, I will post it again right here because it is THE TAKEAWAY from this story.
As each new insular community in our modern insular world becomes acquainted with Enron Musk, they learn that he is a fucking fraud and a crybaby. Here is another recent video showing what Musk did to further damage his gaming cred by trying to silence gamers on Twitter:
