Elon Musk is big mad at Asmongold

Here’s something we’re living through in the year 2025: Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the known universe, has decided to spend his time beefing with Asmongold.

What? How? Why? Buckle up. The tl;dr is that Musk likes to brag about being one of the most elite video gamers in the world, but people have their doubts about whether he’s really the one grinding levels in games like Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2.

The first round of boosting accusations came last November, after Musk went on Joe Rogan‘s podcast and bragged that he was a top Diablo 4 player. Boosting, for those who don’t know, is a frowned-upon practice in gaming where a player hires someone else—often someone pro-level—to play on their account for them. The booster gets paid, and the player gets things like inflated stats and high-tier loot.

Following his appearance on Rogan’s podcast, Musk posted a clip of someone who was supposedly him clearing an extremely difficult, timed dungeon called Pit of the Artificer in record time. However, his record was not accepted by the official community leaderboard, Helltides, spurring suspicion about whether he was actually the one playing when the record was broken.

Fast-forward to the December release of dungeon-crawler game Path of Exile 2, and Musk once again claimed to be among the top players in the world. Except this time, he seemingly set out to prove the haters wrong—by livestreaming his gameplay on X.

There was just one problem.

As Twitch streamer and experienced Path of Exile player Quin69 points out in a YouTube video called Elon Musk is Lying About Being Good at Video Games, Musk was for sure controlling his high-level Path of Exile 2 character during the stream.

The problem is, he was controlling it badly.

In one example mishap, Musk tries to open a map so he can start a dungeon instance. Quin69 explains that by Path of Exile 2‘s endgame (the section of the game Musk was playing on stream), players have been well educated about how to progress through its map system. Musk, though, clicked around on different map nodes aimlessly, trying to get it to work, and then gave up.

When he finally did manage to load into an instance and start slaughtering enemies, he walked straight past an extraordinarily rare piece of loot—something regular players would scoop up instantly. Quin69 also points out that during combat, he spent an unusually long stretch of time apparently unaware that his character was out of mana, which would’ve allowed use of combat abilities. Instead of pulling back and waiting for the mana to replenish, Musk continued battering the enemy with basic attacks (the equivalent of tossing a pebble at Godzilla).

So where does Asmongold come into this? Well, as he often does, he decided to film reaction content—and this time, he reacted to Quin69’s video.

His own YouTube upload was called Elon Musk is not getting away with this.., and in it, he said Musk appeared to be a classic case of boosting. “[Musk doesn’t] need to pretend to be this elite, top, number one gamer in order to have people that like video games [like him],” Asmongold said.

Not long after the video went up, Musk started talking about it on X.

“Asmon behaves like a maverick ‘independent’, but in reality has to ask his boss for permission before he can do anything. He is not his own man,” he wrote.

He then leaked prior DMs between himself and Asmongold where they were discussing content, and Asmongold mentioned asking his YouTube editors what they thought about starting a second channel.

“Who are these mysterious editors?” Musk replied, seemingly unaware of what YouTube editors are, and that they work for creators–not the other way around.

Musk then wrote that Asmongold “is NOT good at video games,” unfollowed him, and Asmongold’s verified checkmark was stripped from his account. (It appears to be back now.)

Asmongold’s response? “Leaking my DM’s is one thing but this is absolutely uncalled for,” he posted, about Musk saying he’s not good at games.

Here at Tubefilter, we like to close stories with some industry insight and context from our decades in the digital content business. In this case, though, the only conclusion is that a billionaire businessman who controls massive market share in the aerospace, electric vehicle, and communications industries, and who is involved with the incoming Trump administration, is spending his time worrying about a YouTuber saying he doesn’t really play games.