‘This is actually depressing’: Did Elon Musk really use a secret fake account to call himself a great father (because no one else will)?

Elon Musk is weird. There’s no getting around that. And just became impossible to overlook it.

While he has many faults, it’s hard to blame him for being a little unorthodox because he has such an unorthodox life. It’s difficult to imagine being the world’s wealthiest man, having a net worth of $436.8 billion, and not developing a few strange quirks. That said, using a fake account to praise himself on the social media platform he owns would be overly bizarre, even for him. But has he actually done that? Well, many believe that’s the case.

On Dec. 27, in a live audio discussion on X Spaces, a user with the name “Adrian Dittmann” did a lot of passionate and profanity-filled sucking up to Musk. The user (username @AdrianDittmann) praised Musk for giving everyone a voice and not censoring people with particular views, telling people to be more grateful and “do better,” and insisting that he doesn’t care if anyone hates him for saying it.

The voice was strangely reminiscent of Musk’s, prompting several people, including a journalist and podcast host named Jim Stewartson (username @jimstewartson), to accuse the multi-billionaire of using a secret fake account and a voice modifier to pretend to be someone else to give himself praise (it wouldn’t be the first time he’d exploited his ownership of the platform). Stewartson’s recording of “Dittmann” speaking in the X Space is below.

It prompted one user to quote Stewartson’s post with a screenshot of “Dittmann” replying to one of Musk’s posts on X at the beginning of 2024. Musk had posted a picture of himself with his son and wrote, “My son lil X loves clinging precariously to my back & yelling “monkey rides!”” “Dittmann” had responded to the post with glowing praise, “You’re an amazing father, Elon. Your kids are very lucky to have you.”

At the time, Dittmann’s words were written off as another avid Musk fan buttering up the billion despite knowing how he treats his trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. Now, with him sounding suspiciously like the billionaire, it is inching towards a whole another level of sad.

Of course, several people jumped to Musk’s defense — excluding the brain-dead fans threatening mutiny if someone criticized their idol — and contradicted the theory with plausible logic that he’s using a fake account to give himself praise.

Now, it’s important to point out that there’s absolutely no proof that Adrian Dittmann is or isn’t Elon Musk pretending to be a fan of himself. One undeniable thing is that there are undoubtedly similarities in how they talk.

However, the people leaping to Musk’s defense also have no definitive evidence that they aren’t one and the same. The fact they’ve spoken to and over each other in spaces means next to nothing these days. Given Musk’s nigh-unlimited resources, Dittmann could easily be a sophisticated AI modeled on the billionaire’s speech patterns.

People will undoubtedly keep an eye on the Adrian Dittmann account to try and spot anything that further suggests he’s a Musk burner — especially when he hosts an X-Space and speaks. He’s always active and posting to his 170,000 followers, and recently vaguely acknowledged the accusations in the post below.

We’ll be keenly awaiting new developments to confirm or shoot down the accusations (not that it would make Musk look any less unhinged or just plain disgusting).