It turns out an Elon Musk rage quit is a wonderful thing to behold. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long been a controversial figure in politics. And once again, he’s proving to be an equally irritating feature in gaming spaces. His initial foray into trying to be a “Gamer” began with an infuriatingly terrible Elden Ring build. Everyone already hated that for just how transparently bad it was. But more recently, Musk took things a step further.
While he’s spent the last few months aiding the Trump administration in dismantling the federal government, he’s also spent time gaming. And if you’re not familiar with this whole saga, it’s kind of bizarre. The current hurricane of outrage began swirling early this year when his Path of Exile account was caught leveling while Musk himself was at the Trump inauguration. This effectively confirmed a long-standing rumor that Musk had been paying someone to play his account—known as boosting, where a higher-skilled player plays the account in your stead—to hilarious results. In short, everyone who watched Elon Musk actually play saw through his facade.
And now, he’s trying to fool everyone again. During a Saturday livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)—where he was attempting to demonstrate the viability of Starlink for low-latency gaming—he’s now experienced the feature we’re all familiar with in gaming, online bullying. Polygon originally broke the story, cataloging some of the funnier moments that led to the Elon Musk rage quit.
For its part, the internet went mad, as it usually does. For one example, Twitter was a mixed bag. Some users joined in on the taunting, mocking other examples of Musk being terrible at video games. Others chose to defend the billionaire, maybe they’re hoping to curry some favor with the embarrassment of a gamer.
“Elon Musk just rage quit his Twitter stream after repeatedly dying to a tutorial boss in the new PoE2 patch on hardcore,” one X-formerly-Twitter user wrote.
Path of Exile 2‘s community was equally bemused by the entire affair. Reddit and the forums for the game were alight with all manner of mocking insults. They even took some of their more toxic taunting to the in-game chat—with users direct messaging him various insults—clearly designed to elicit this exact response of a rage quit.
Adding to the strange nature of the affair is Musk himself. All while chat taunted him, Musk simply blasted music through a subpar-quality microphone with a blank stare.
And of course, who could talk about Elon Musk’s tarnished gaming credentials without bringing up Twitch streamer, Quin69TV. The often-divisive personality savaged Musk in multiple videos, deeply undermining his cred with gamers. Quin spent a good chunk of a recent stream analyzing and deriding the gameplay.
“We’re going to see a live RIP, 100%” he remarked during the stream. Musk later died multiple times in early parts of Path of Exile 2. Quin continued mocking Musk, saying: “….It’s more like a jester…just seeing how slowly he does everything, it’s insane.”
You can see the full recap video below, it’s a great watch.
After the Elon Musk rage quit, his response drew even more ire.
“There’s a lot of r*tards in the chat,” he said at one point. This rant happened shortly before Musk ended his stream, while a user named HC_John_Wick repeatedly spammed “ELON HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK THIS DUMB AND UGLY WHY IS UR TESLA COMPANY FALLING APART AHAAHAAHAAH! WHAT HAPPENED BUDDY?” Elon used in-game features to block this user to the delight of people mocking him further.
Of course, there’s a legion of equally thin-skinned hypocrites decrying his treatment online. Twitter and other social media sites filled with people defending Musk (many of them bearing blue checks) and calling the behavior uncalled for and disrespectful. This coming from the same crowd that eagerly defends the use of slurs as “just part of being online” whenever someone has an issue with online harassment of normal people. The difference is that this is the wealthiest man on the planet, who also happens to be rightfully despised for his antics, including a controversial salute he performed twice. He’s going to get bullied, and no amount of sucking up to his baby-like behavior is going to change that.
