Now poor Elon Musk is bullied off his favourite video game

Poor Elon Musk. The Tesla owner, self-styled first buddy and walking midlife crisis was last month reduced to wailing on his own social media site about nobody liking him, writing: “My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone. So why the hate and violence against me?” (The answer, he concluded, was that he is “a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls”).

Leaving aside the very real fact that the Center for Global Development has estimated that Musk’s swingeing cuts to USAID have the potential to kill three million people this year alone from disease, hunger and poverty, which probably counts as “physical hurt”, the bullies have taken things one step further. Now they’ve driven him off his favourite video game!

Musk was livestreaming himself playing Path of Exile 2 when a torrent of abuse from his fellow players around the world flooded its chat feature. “YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY,” said a player named ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC. That was one of the kinder jibes.

Others mocked his playing prowess, laughed at the tribulations of his faltering car company, posed as Ashley St. Clair, a conservative influencer who says she is the mother of Musk’s latest child, or simply wrote “YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND YOU WILL DIE ALONE”.

After 30 minutes of this, during which he stared blankly at the screen throughout, Musk flounced out of the game, apparently unaware that it is possible to turn the chat off. He also repeatedly died at the hands of the game’s very first boss, despite having claimed to be one of the world’s best players.

Rats in a Sack reported speculation earlier this year that Musk had been paying someone to play the game on his behalf round the clock so that he could pretend to be amazing at it. Perhaps that’s one employee the DOGE head honcho needs to get back on the payroll!