Path of Exile 2 players bully Elon Musk during eerie airplane stream

Musk went live on X (formerly Twitter) the afternoon of April 5 with an “airborne continuity test” of his satellite internet service Starlink, also known as playing Path of Exile 2 poorly on a private jet. Shortly after his broadcast started, the CEO and prominent political advisor began receiving private messages from other players, many of which were incredibly cutting and therefore quite hilarious.

One might assume someone like Musk who presents himself as epic gamer would know how to turn off the chat, and thus prevent these insults from interrupting his vanity project. But alas, it seems like he was okay with just ignoring folks hating on him one at a time. Some examples include:

The weirdest part of the stream, however, was Musk’s wordless, dead-eyed stare through the whole broadcast. I’ve had the archive playing in the background while writing this story, and Musk hasn’t mumbled more than a few words at a time for the last half hour. I keep flipping back to the video, thinking he must be doing something other than wordlessly clicking through a computer game on a luxury aircraft (maybe he’s too busy daydreaming of destroying Social Security?) — but nope, there’s his face, staring blankly at the screen as other players’ contempt fills his in-game whispers.

As for what Musk did in Path of Exile 2, he lost several hardcore characters, then quit when the connection got bad and he died to a tutorial boss.