Elon Musk admits he cheated at some video games

A big part of Elon's brand is making it look like he's a kind of autistic, nerd-prodigy. Same aesthetic that Sam Bankman-Fried played on with his cargo shorts and gaming habit. Many normies think that Elon "invented" electric vehicles or SpaceX's rockets and isn't simply a financier with a large inheritance.

Isnt a large part of this article and interview him owning it, saying he pays for leveled accounts, but the time on stream and videos are really him.

I don't know about the third parties getting in on it, I guess that's just milking what can be milked (which also makes videos longer); but I can totally see why Path of Exile players keep making memes about it.

Imagine someone saying they're a master programmer, one of the top guys ever. Then they open notepad, type something that doesn't even make sense as pseudo code, close the window, click "no" when notepad asks to save, say "as you can see it's already compiled" and click some icon that's been sitting on the desktop all the time, starting a screen saver.

Or imagine Musk claimed that he speaks Chinese perfectly and spent 20 years in China as English teacher, and proves it by having a conversation with a stooge, where Elon Musk asks "ching chong ping pong?" and the other person response in Chinese, only for Elon to repeat "ching chon ping pong". 50 times, after which the stooge thanks Elon for having given them something to think about, while his fans just stare, deeply impressed.

For people who know why that is funny, they instantly see it, and it's just too funny. But I can see how it's just a big nothingburger for people who aren't into the game.

A core part of the man that is Elon Musk is paying people to do things and taking credit for them as if he did them himself. That's like, his entire MO.

I don't think the issue is that it is video games as much as that he is willing to be so inauthentic and lie about something as mundane as how good one is at a video game

It points to the character of Elon

I think it’s that he was getting undeserved credit and popularity in that community for allegedly being one of the best players in the world. It would be shocking in general for any high level executive to be a leader in a video game, but especially him given all the companies he runs. So this bought him a lot of credibility, especially when he was live streaming. But it turned out he just paid someone to build up his characters to insane levels, which was very deceptive.

I care about the dishonesty not his skill at video games. I care about the dishonesty because via his influence with Trump and at DOGE, what he thinks and does impacts me as someone living the US.

The evidence is his gameplay videos and it's quite conclusive. This is about an ostensible 'admission' but the admission, if it is one, is not the evidence.