Elon Musk's gaming credibility has taken more hits in recent years than a level-one character walking into a boss fight.

The tech billionaire, already tangled in a web of "fraud gamer" accusations, attempted to set the record straight with a video of himself playing Blizzard's ARPG Diablo IV. However, instead of clearing his name, the clip has only fueled more skepticism among many.

Last week, the X / Twitter account @teslaownersSV posted a video of Musk in a dark room, staring at a massive curved screen with a headset on while appearing to play Diablo 4. The caption read, "Killing the demons in a video game calms the demons in my mind." Musk later reposted the clip with a simple "Yeah."

Yeah pic.twitter.com/t2faGIdlup

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2025

The internet, however, was not convinced. The video racked up millions of views in short order, but eagle-eyed skeptics pointed out some curious details: Musk’s keyboard and controller were mysteriously out of frame, his erratic head movements seemed more in line with watching a movie than actually controlling a character and the whole thing had the unmistakable energy of someone pretending to be engrossed in gameplay than actually playing a game.

Gamers and skeptics alike wasted no time in dissecting the clip. One X user joked, "He not even moving fast he's just shaking his head," while others outright denied that Musk was controlling what's on his screen.

Some users recreated the moment by dramatically moving their heads while playing unrelated games. Others mashed up Musk’s clip with absurd gameplay edits, like him fighting a Morrowind mudcrab instead of Diablo IV demons.

Not that I have to prove myself, but I’ve had a few people question whether I can actually play games or not. See for yourself. pic.twitter.com/exSYZU87YA

— selma😜 (@selmacashmoney) March 31, 2025

Yeah https://t.co/xsrwH7XuZV pic.twitter.com/Fzwb1RHig3

— Micky D (@DeMickyD) March 29, 2025

But this gaming debacle didn’t happen in isolation. It capped off a rough week for Musk's gaming reputation, which had already been bruised by multiple roasts.

First, the official Assassin’s Creed X account publicly dragged him after Musk criticized Twitch streamer Hasan Piker for promoting Assassin's Creed: Shadows. The AC account fired back with a brutal callback to Musk's Path of Exile 2 cheating scandal, asking, "Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?"

That single tweet racked up over 400,000 likes and, presumably, cemented a Ubisoft social media manager's unexpected reign as Twitter's main character of the day.

Then, Musk’s own daughter, Vivian Wilson, casually confirmed what many hadn't even begun to suspect: that her dad was bad at Overwatch.

During a livestream appearance with Hasan Piker, she recalled Musk enlisting her and her twin brother’s help to play the game for him when they were young, supposedly because he was "hardstuck Bronze" while playing the character Torbjörn.

This revelation added fuel to the already blazing accusations that Musk talks a big game but struggles to back it up when a controller is actually in his hands.

Elon Musks daughter Vivian tells HASAN that ELON would ask her and her twin to BOOST him out of Bronze in Overwatch because he couldn' do it himself LOL pic.twitter.com/MgoCLp2FGL

— TŖIP (@tripqwq) March 29, 2025

To many internet users, Musk's Diablo IV video seems more like damage control than a flex. Unfortunately for him, it sounds like he's going to have to do a lot more to convince the internet about his gaming prowess.