Posted on 05/23/2022 7:04:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
From sexual harassment accusations to some erratic behavior around his intent to purchase Twitter , some longtime fans of Tesla boss Elon Musk are wondering if he's as clever as he's previously seemed.
Musk has built a massive social media following on his dedication to innovation, free speech, and voicing his opinions as loudly and consistently as possible, and has gained a legion of fanboys because of it.
But while many believe Musk some kind of futuristic tech prophet, some Americans are becoming disillusioned with him these days.
However, if Musk even feels down in the dumps about this and can't be cheered up by his piles of money, he can look to other countries to boost his ego, where fans love him so much they go to great lengths to be noticed by him.
One of them actually got Musk's attention after posting a video of himself on social media, likely because the man appears at first glance to be the spitting image of Musk himself.
The resemblance was so striking that Musk replied to the video in December 2021 via Twitter.
The man who looks suspiciously like the Tesla is named Yilong Ma, although the name he uses on social media is Elong Musk.
Something about his content must have offended TikTok owner ByteDance, however, because his accounts on Chinese social media sites Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and Weibo, a Twitter-like platform used in Asian countries, have been banned.
Ma responded by moving all his content to TikTok, which has not banned it — yet. All his uploaded videos have millions of views.
Ma is clearly hopeful that Musk will notice him again.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Musk has a point.
Deepfake technology, which uses AI to recognize patterns in data and replicate a person's facial movements, are hitting a new point of realism, and Ma could just be taking advantage of it.
His doppleganger’s name is Eron
The correct parallel to Musk is Jack Ma, who got too big for his britches and was punished by Xi as the Progressives want to do with Musk.
Trump’s Russia, Russia, Russia 2.0?
Well done!
Modern journalism. Read Twitter and Facebook. Write what was posted.
The government will destroy the one bright spot that this country has, in terms of a non-fascist, American, successful future.
Yet another cheap Chinese knockoff.
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elon has a longer face...but the guy is close...
MSN via The Street
Could be looks like their handy work.
Also, there are over seven billion people in the world - chances are that we have doppelgängers too - we just aren’t celebrities, so nobody notices.
Tesla hit $1,243 in November - an all time high.
This morning, in pre-market trading, Tesla hit $635.
It rallied right after making that low and is currently trading at $667.
Yes. And Elon Musk just lost $31 billion in net worth at this writing. Just over a month ago, his net worth was close to $250 billion. Now, he’s worth a “mere” $219 billion.... still more than combined wealth of several billionaires in the top 20.
If Elon starts talking funny and supports censorship, then the swamp version of Replacement Theory will have occurred...
That is very comforting to people who bought Tesla stock.
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