YouTube: PewDiePie, AsmongoldTVThe feud between tech billionaire Elon Musk and Twitch streamer Asmongold wasn’t on our 2025 bingo card, but here we are. Here’s everything you need to know about the beef and why it’s going viral.
Elon Musk is a long-time gamer, so it comes as little surprise that he’s chummy with some of the net’s top streamers, including World of Warcraft savant Asmongold.
In fact, Elon is pretty good at games – so much so that he’s become one of the best players in the world in certain titles.
Elon Musk has a background as a prolific gamer
For example, Musk technically became the best Diablo IV player in the world in November 2024 when his run of the game’s Level 150 Artificer’s Pit beat out the community’s top ranking at a staggering 1:52.
And in January of that same year, he went viral after using his level 100 Druid to solo a tier-25 Abattoire of Zir.
Elon’s gaming prowess even shocked the likes of Joe Rogan, and the X owner now has designs to start his very own AI-powered gaming studio to bring his ideas to life.
Quin69 calls out Elon Musk’s PoE2 ranking
However, netizens started calling Elon’s gaming skills into question in January 2025 when Twitch streamer Quin69 accused the Tesla CEO of ‘account sharing’ in Path of Exile 2.
For the non-gamers out there, Quin essentially accused Musk of paying someone to play on his account for him to level up his character and farm experience.
“He just logs in to do a map every now and then,” Quin said. “That’s why there’s a tab called Elon’s Map and why he has no clue how to activate the Atlas.”
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Asmongold accuses Elon Musk of account sharing in PoE2
It wasn’t long before this accusation found its way to Asmongold, who agreed with Quin’s theory that Musk wasn’t actually responsible for his high-level character.
“There’s no way he played that account,” Asmongold said. “I’m sorry, I think he bought the account or somebody played it for him, one hundred f**king percent.”
Days later, Asmongold challenged Musk to prove his skills, even wagering that he would start streaming on X if the world’s richest man proved him wrong.
“If Elon Musk can prove that he played this account to 97, I will stream on X [formerly Twitter], starting the day that he proves it, for an entire year straight, every single stream,” Asmon said.
In the midst of this speculation, Elon’s level 97 Hardcore Path of Exile character, Percy_Verence, quietly died after reaching seventh place on the game’s global leaderboard.
Elon Musk jokes about PoE2 cheating accusations
Following this event, Musk was largely silent regarding the accusations of account sharing in PoE — but on January 15, the X owner joked about the situation during a live stream from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, saying he “loves his Chinese alter ego.”
“His name is Yilongma and he’s amazing. I rely on him for everything,” he said.
The next day, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Musk had apparently unfollowed Asmongold on X, sparking rumors that things weren’t all sunshine and roses between the two figures.
Asmon addressed this supposed unfollowing during a Twitch stream, saying, “He’s probably not happy about the PoE video. There’s no way he played that account.”
“He’ll get over it,” he continued. “Listen, it was so obvious! You cannot get mad at me for bringing this up. Everybody was talking about this, come on man. Come on!”
Elon Musk exposes DMs with Asmongold
In response, Musk penned several tweets about the situation, the first in response to a video from a content creator named ‘Screamhart’ dissecting the SpaceX owner’s PoE account.
“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,” Musk wrote.
He also posted a video showing himself doing a world record Diablo AoZ clear with Ace of Spades on stream.
After this, Elon published another post that included a screenshot of his DMs with Asmongold, where the two discussed the possibility of Asmon streaming on X.
“I’m gonna see if my editors might want to make a second account for it even,” Asmon said in the messages, referring to potentially creating another profile for him to stream and upload content.
“Sure,” Musk replied. “Who are these mysterious editors?”
“Two guys,” Asmon answered, sharing their handles. “They basically run the entire YouTube account lol. So basically, any content I post is edited or uploaded by them and they just get a cut of the ad revenue. It’s a super good system tbh, almost everyone on YouTube does it.”
“Interesting,” Musk said.
Musk’s sharing of his private conversation with Asmongold sparked a large reaction from fans following the situation, prompting a Community Note explaining that Asmon’s editors don’t “control” his content in the vein of a newspaper editor or other such profession.
Instead, Asmongold’s video editors simply edit his Twitch streams for time and upload them to his YouTube channel.
Musk went on to take jabs at Asmon’s gaming skills in another post, writing, “I’m on hundreds of streams on YouTube/Twitch playing live with the world’s best players.
“No other way to say this, but, while Asmon IS good at caustic commentary and making fun of people, he is NOT good at video games.”
Asmongold responds after Elon Musk leaks X DMs
Asmongold reacted to Elon’s post not long afterward, saying that while leaking their DMs was one thing, the insults toward his gaming career were “absolutely uncalled for.”
“Come on, man. [Level] 97 is too high,” Asmon went on to say in a live stream. “If you want to have somebody play your account, that’s fine, but you can’t go and act like you played it yourself.”
Elon Musk’s ex Grimes defends his gaming abilities
Amid the viral conversation surrounding Musk’s PoE2 character, his ex-partner, music artist Grimes, spoke out on his behalf in a post on X.
“Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first American druid in Diablo to clear Abattoir of Zir and ended that season as best in the USA,” she wrote.
“He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.”
However, Grimes also admitted she “agrees” with the suspicion that arose surrounding Musk’s high-level character after a fan said there were “reasonable suspicions that he had help with Path of Exile 2.”
Elon Musk admits to account sharing in Path of Exile 2
On January 19, YouTuber NikoWrex shared his DMs with Elon Musk in a video, which the X owner had given him permission to do.
In the messages, Niko asked him directly if he’d account shared to boost his character. “Have you ever level boosted (had someone else play your accounts) and/or purchased gear/resources for PoE2 and Diablo 4?” he asked.
In response, Musk sent a 100 emoji. “That’s 100% me,” he wrote. “It’s impossible to beat players in Asia if you don’t [account share].”
Asmongold reacts to Elon Musk’s account-sharing admission
Asmongold responded to Musk’s DMs with Niko during a Twitch stream, where he shared his thoughts on the ordeal.
“Let’s be real,” he said. “When you present something as your account, people are going to think you got it from your account. I think that many people would have come to the conclusion based off the way he talked about it, that he did it.”
That being said, Asmon clarified that he still believes Elon is a “pretty good” gamer, “but there’s being a good gamer, and there’s being level 97 in PoE.”
Thus ends the dramatic gaming saga that took over the internet right at the start of 2025. At the time of writing, Musk has yet to address his insults toward Asmongold, but at least the speculation surrounding his high-level accounts has been finally put to rest.
