Elon Musk trolled by Valorant fans chanting ‘Bring back Twitter’

Elon Musk, the controversial and outspoken businessman has been given a second taste of his medicine.

Fans of ValorantMusk was trolled by, a competitive first-person shooting game, when he went to the Valorous Champions grand finales on Saturday in Los Angeles. People had gathered for the international esports tournament, but accidentally the billionaire stole the show. He became the boogeyman of the joke. When a jumbotron showed footage of his face in the crowd, the audience responded by booing him and chanting, “Bring back Twitter.”

It was a moment that blew out of proportion. various social media platformsLike TikTok. In the clips from the match between North America’s Evil Geniuses and the Singapore-based org Paper Rex, the jumbotron shows live video footage of Musk in the crowd, after which it cuts to a replay from a match. After a few moments, the audience booed him. Movements after the shouting, members of the crowd chanted “Bring back Twitter” in unison.

Polygon reached out to a representative from Riot Games for comment, and we’ll update if we hear back.

The booing is likely a response to Musk’s purchase of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Elon Musk purchased Twitter in November 2022 after a series of legal disputes and attempts to pull out. Musk changed features such as the Twitter Verification System and the Homepage immediately upon purchase. Then in July of this year, Musk rebranded the platform to “X.”

Musk’s takeover of Twitter has brought a wave of changes to the popular social media platform and, clearly, not everyone is happy. Elon Musk’s buying of Tesla is the joke that dominates the comment section on the video clip. Valorant developer Riot Games. One commenter said, “bro tryna buy valorant,” and another said “bro gonna turn valorant into V.”

Musk is trying to establish himself as a video-games lover, an internet expert, and a billionaire. But if the reactions from the Valorant Champions Tournament are anything to go by, then he may be known in the video game community as the person who destroyed Twitter.