X proprietor Elon Musk is dealing with renewed allegations that he’s additionally the particular person behind Elon Musk-adoring fan Adrian Dittman. The declare got here to prominence after screenshots posted by Dittman to 4chan (due to course it was 4chan) seemingly revealed that he has entry to administrator privileges on X, though the authenticity of the picture has been disputed by a supply inside X.
The picture was posted by Dittman as a part of a rambling protection of Musk’s stewardship of X, his skill to appropriately self-medicate, and maybe most famously, that “Elon is a father who will get numerous intercourse.” The messages have since been deleted however are preserved for posterity (and, I have to say, irony) in varied posts on X.Â
The different posts Elon made on this /pol/ thread earlier than being uncovered and deleting all the things are actually a sight to behold: pic.twitter.com/Fl1bca9uCNJanuary 3, 2025
(There’s additionally a 4chan archive if you wish to go deep on the entire thing, however do word that it is awash in racism, homophobia, and transphobia—it is 4chan, in any case—and modify your expectations accordingly.)
What actually received consideration, although, is a shot of the X interface posted by Dittman that seemingly revealed he has entry to admin privileges on the platform. The picture of his interface consists of hyperlinks to account switching, the admin portal, and bans—choices not accessible to common X customers.Â
Adrian Dittmann posted on 4chan and by chance revealed that he has admin privileges on twitter lol pic.twitter.com/ikbu1ZkopWJanuary 2, 2025
That in itself could be very odd certainly, however it carries additional weight as a result of it comes on prime of earlier allegations that Musk and Dittman are one and the identical: A July 2023 report by The Independent, as an example, stated that Dittman’s “voice and chortle sounds remarkably just like Mr Musk’s,” some extent others on X have famous independently. Dittman has additionally apparently referred to Musk within the first particular person on not less than one event, and Musk’s personal daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, (through The Verge) additionally appears to consider that they are the identical particular person.
Still, the picture posted to 4chan is not conclusive proof by itself. A supply at X instructed The Verge that the precise interface utilized by X workers does not appear like the one seen within the picture, implying that it was faked with a purpose to encourage the rumor about Dittman being a sockpuppet account. It’s not even sure that Dittman, whoever he’s, posted it: 4chan customers can use just about no matter identify they need when beginning new threads, so this might all merely be a bored third occasion seeking to crank folks up for enjoyable.
But on the different different hand, Musk has finished precisely this kind of factor earlier than. In a 2024 lawsuit deposition reported by the Huffington Post, Musk copped to utilizing sockpuppet accounts, together with one during which he pretended to be a three-year-old baby—though he stated that account was solely used “for testing.”
Is Musk Dittman? Is Dittman Musk? What makes all of this so exhaustingly silly is that it is not possible to say. In a sane world, claims that the wealthiest man on the planet is utilizing a long-term sockpuppet to prop himself up with ego-boosters that sound like they’re written by a pre-teen could be dismissed out of hand as unmitigated nonsense most likely being shared by those self same delinquent pre-teens. But we do not have that luxurious in our world. We have hypothesis, nameless denials, and—worst of all—the precise chance that, yeah, Musk is Dittman.
It’s not possible to show a destructive and so there is a good chance that this insanity will drag on for a very long time to come back, until Musk both biffs it so badly that denial is not doable, or he is compelled to disclose the reality in one other lawsuit deposition. For now, we are able to not less than take some small consolation within the one factor within the on-line world that by no means lets us down: memes.
