Elon Musk’s daughter, Vivian Wilson, says that her father is just pretending to be a skilled gamer.
On Friday, Wilson appeared on a Twitch stream with progressive influencer and gamer Hasan Piker where she claimed that Musk used her and her twin brother to “carry” him through the online ranks in the competitive video game Overwatch when she was 12.
“I can expose something that I think is really fucking funny,” Wilson, now 20, said.
She continued, “He would try to constantly get us to play ranked with him, and I’m 90% sure it was just because we could carry him.”
Wilson called her dad “awful” at the game, before mentioning a previous scandal involving him boasting about being a pro Path of Exile 2 player, despite many speculating that he hired a skilled player to get him to a high level so he could take the credit.
“He was fucking dogshit awful, like god-awful,” Wilson said, calling her father “cringe.”
The interview comes just days after Musk attacked Piker on X, calling the streamer a “fraud”after he shared a sponsored post advertising Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
“Hasan is a fraud,” Musk posted Tuesday on X.
“‘Sell-out’ would be more accurate,” he wrote in a subsequent post. “Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money.”
The game, which has now surpassed three million players, has come under fire by Musk and right wing gamers who labeled the project “woke” for having a Black samurai and Japanese woman protagonist.
Hasan reacted to Musk’s comments with his own post, stating, “this bitch literally paid someone to power level his character in POE2.”
The official Assassin’s Creed X account also clapped back at Musk, asking, “Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?”
That reply has hundreds of thousands more likes than Musk’s comment.
“Why would you even pretend?” Wilson asked Piker. “It’s fine not to be a gamer.”
She said her father’s desire to be liked in the gaming community comes from wanting to be Nolan Sorrento, the fictional CEO and antagonist of Ernest Cline’s novel “Ready Player One.”
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“He made us read ‘Ready Player One’ when we got in trouble,” Wilson said. “True story.”
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