Elon Musk’s doppelganger has millions of views on TikTok, but Yilong Ma and his imitation antics have not fooled anyone, know his real name, viral video, TikTok, meme, Instagram, Twitter
Yilong Ma/Elong Musk is a TikToker from China who has recently taken the platform by storm.
With only eight movies and tens of millions of hits, the inventor addresses the internet in a manner reminiscent of billionaire Elon Musk.
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As the movement of the fake account sweeps TikTok, with Robert Pattinson & Tom Cruise generating their own copies, doubts about Yilong Ma’s legitimacy grow.
After being suspended from Weibo and Douyin, the Chinese language counterparts of Twitter and TikTok, the content producer has exclusively shifted to TikTok and English language material.
Bytedance, the corporate company that owns both Douyin and TikTok, and has not issued a comment explaining why they want to be Musk was removed, but Yilong is still free to post on TikTok.
Ma Yilong, who lives in Hebei province in northern China, first caught Musk’s attention at the end of last year when a short video of him standing next to a car went viral with him having accrued well over 300,000 followers on TikTok since.
The films themselves are harmless enough. Yilong has been mostly heard calling himself “Elon Musk’s Chinese Twin” and communicating in approximate English.
Whether deepfake or otherwise, the TikToks appear as amusing analyses of Elon Musk’s market moves across a linguistic barrier. “Hi, guys, my bird, my bird,” Musk says in Yilong’s analysis of Musk’s ownership of Twitter.
With deepfake software becoming more available than before and AR filters evolving at a breakneck pace. Determining what’s genuine and what’s not is only going to get a little more difficult. Elon is unlikely to be the last star to have a ‘lookalike’ appear out of nowhere.
Yilong Ma, Elon Musk’s famous Chinese doppelgänger, claims to have already been blocked from TikTok and Twitter in China. And like scores of people who have vanished off the face of the earth in China as the country clampsdown on any kind of freedom for its citizens, Yilong looks to have disappeared as well ever since he went viral.