Joe Yates
Elon Musk has long claimed to be an expert gamer, but those skills have been called into question by viewers on his recent livestream.
Musk has long professed his prowess at video games, claiming on Joe Rogan's podcast last year that he was in the Top 20 leaderboard for Diablo IV, and the leaderboards seemingly backed him up by showing him at number 19, The Guardian reports.
However, some gamers on social media believed they'd smelt a rat and accused Musk of 'boosting' his accounts, which the businessman later apparently admitted to in a conversation with player NikoWrex, who posted a video about the interaction on YouTube, according to The Guardian.
However, on Saturday (April 5), the Tesla CEO used his time onboard his private jet to livestream him gaming Path of Exile 2, showcasing how clean his Starlink WiFi with an 'airborne continuity test'.
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However, his livestream chat was quickly bombarded by trolling messages about his gameplay amongst other things, as one user commented: "Yo since you suck so much i can help you through act 1."
That was just one of many commenters, including one from a troll with the tag 'ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC', who typed: "YOU RUINED THE COUNTRY JUST LIKE YOU RUIN MARRIAGES."
This interaction resulted in the following admin message after Musk paused the game to take action: "ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC has been added to your ignore list."
Other comments on the livestream included one person imitating Ashley St. Clair, who has recently claimed to have given birth to Musk's thirteenth child.
On February 21, the author had filed two petitions against Musk to the New York Supreme Court, with the first being for sole legal custody of what she claims is their five-month-old son - referred to as 'RSC' - while the second is for him to take a paternity test.
They wrote: "Elon. It's me, Ashley St. Claire, I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access just for this. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon."
There were others who used the platform to preach about the trans community, with one person repeatedly typing 'TRANS RIGHTS', while others mentioned his transgender daughter Vivian Wilson - who he is reportedly estranged from.
They simply commented: "Your daughter was right."
Musk did address the messages, saying that players were 'spamming messages', however, he did not activate the 'Do Not Disturb' function to disable the chat, with one person even reaching out to tell him how to do it, PC Gamer says.
He also began to play music by his ex and mother to three of his children, X Æ A-Xii, Techno Mechanicus and Exa Dark Sideræl, Grimes.
The stream then ended abruptly after his character dying to a tutorial boss and the connection was beginning to drop, Polygon reports.
As of writing, Musk hasn't spoken about the livestream on his social media platforms, with his most recent post being a retweet about his Tesla Roadster, dubbed Starman, which is currently flying through space.
He wrote: 'Don’t Panic'.