ELON Musk has a Chinese lookalike who is making a splash on social media.
Yilong Ma, who has been dubbed Elon Musk’s “Chinese twin brother”, is raking in tens of thousands of followers on TikTok.
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To date, the TikToker – whose handle is @mayilong0 – has uploaded just eight videos that have garnered tens of millions of views.
The creator’s videos are flooded with Twitter props and Tesla cars that try to emanate the real Elon Musk’s content on social media.
In nearly all the reels, the Chinese social media star, who calls himself “Elong Musk”, is donning a suit and a similar haircut as the Tesla CEO.
Prior to being a star on TikTok, the content creator was gaining popularity on Weibo and Douyin – the Chinese language versions of Twitter and TikTok.
However, those accounts have since been suspended due to a violation of Weibo’s policies.
Ma confirmed he has no other social media accounts on his TikTok bio, which states: “All platform videos are ported, I only have TikTok. I love you.”
The Chinese TikToker posted his first video on TikTok in February, where he introduced himself in a post as “Elon Musk’s Chinese brother.”
He added that he was also speaking English for the first time, and was “a little nervous.”
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Since then, the content has gotten so popular it has even reached the real Elon Musk’s radar.
“I’d like to meet this guy (if he is real). Hard to tell with deepfakes these days,” Musk wrote in a tweet on May 9.
In response, Ma wrote in a Weibo post: “I am here. I want very much to see you too! I love you, you are my hero.”
What is a ‘deepfake’?
A deepfake is a digitally altered image or video that makes a person look like someone else.
Typically, the technology has been used to spread false information.
What’s more, deepfake accounts are becoming more popular lately as the technology becomes more accessible to the general public.
So far, public figures like Barack Obama and Tom Cruise have claimed that there are deepfake accounts pretending to be them.
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