Elon Musk’s ‘Chinese version’ causes fever again

This video was posted on social media at the end of April, a few days after Musk Notice has been approved acquired Twitter. “This is a free bird. I like him and will come to him now. Because Elon Musk is my brother,” the man called himself “Elong Musk” and “Yi Long Musk.” captions in the video.

The 16-second clip currently attracts more than 5.4 million views with tens of thousands of comments and shares on TikTok after three days. Some joked that maybe this is the richest man in the world and that he is just “pretending someone is pretending to be him”.

Elon Musk’s ‘Chinese version’ causes fever again

“Elong Musk” became famous at the end of December 2021 when he posted a video on the Douyin platform with the same face, posture and hairstyle as the technology billionaire. When asked about the video, Musk is clever feedback: “Maybe a part of me is Chinese”. In fact, his family has nothing to do with China. His father is South African, his mother is Canadian and he is currently a US citizen.

Currently, the identity of Musk’s “copy” is still controversial. Many people surmise that he lives in Suzhou, eastern China. While others think that the video is just a product deepfakeie edited, face transplanted by AI to look real.

On April 25, Elon Musk was approved by Twitter to buy this social network for $ 44 billion. “Twitter has huge potential, I look forward to working with the company and the user community to unlock it,” he said. The deal will take Twitter private and is expected to close in October.

Khanh Pham (according to Newsweek)