X owner Elon Musk was showered with vicious boos and a “Bring back Twitter” chant while attending the world championships for the popular competitive video game Valorant in Los Angeles.
Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last year and has since rebranded the site to simply X, was briefly shown on camera during the broadcast of the Valorant World Championship Final on Saturday.
The crowd of gamers immediately began booing, prompting a surprised reaction from the event’s announcers, who did not address Musk’s roughly four-second appearance on camera.
“Where is that from? That can’t be from in here, surely,” one announcer said.
Moments later, the broadcasters could be heard chuckling as the crowd began chanting for Musk to go back to X’s old brand name.
A video of the embarrassing moment shared by user Jake Lucky quickly went viral on Musk’s own social media platform, racking up nearly 12 million views and more than 80,000 likes as of Monday afternoon.
Musk had earlier been spotted outside the event with his son, X AE A-XII Musk.
“Getting booed by Valorant players is like getting wedgies by the anime club in middle school,” one X user quipped in response to the video.
It wasn’t the first time in recent months that Musk has been booed in public. Last December, Musk was jeered after he joined comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at one of his shows.
Musk later laughed off the incident, describing the booing crowd members as “unhinged leftists.”
Musk has faced intense public scrutiny while leading a major overhaul of the social media site.
As The Post reported last month, industry analysts warned that Musk risked a major marketing blunder by abandoning Twitter’s well-known blue bird logo in favor of the black-and-white X.
Musk fired back at critics, arguing the change was necessary to reflect his ambitions to transform the company from a social media platform into a so-called “everything app.”
Last week, Musk further raised eyebrows by confirming plans to remove headlines and texts from all news articles posted on X. Going forward, articles will merely display a lead image and no other context. Musk argued the move would “improve the aesthetics” of the platform.
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