The Valorant 2023 Tournament of Champions featured a special guest: Elon Musk. But those attending the final did not take it well, and the billionaire was booed. The cause? The end of Twitter to give way to the social network X.
Social networks burned with the short video, in which Elon Musk was shown by the organization’s cameras and people shouted against him. “Bring back Twitter!” It was one of the songs against the South African.
Here are some short about the embarrassing moment.
Jake Sucky, esports personality, posted on the X network: “Elon Musk is being booed in Valorant Champs and the crowd starts chanting ‘Bring Back Twitter’. LMAO”.
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter to rename it X, criticism has rained heavily on him. Among the changes that the billionaire applied to the network are the reopening of accounts that had been suspended for violent speech, sale check badge and more.
The departure of advertisers from Twitter was even seen as an opportunity for the birth of new social networks, like Threads, from Meta. However, the old blue bird network, now X, maintains its popularity… at least in terms of the number of active users.
The final of the Valorant Tournament of Champions was conquered by the North American team Evil Geniuses, who defeated Paper Rex from Indonesia.
In accordance with eSports Bureau, the final reached over 1.29 million viewers at its peak, 28% more than the second most popular match of the tournament.
However, the 2023 edition gathered fewer viewers than the 2022 edition. According to the eSports Bureau, “the average and maximum simultaneous audience, as well as the viewing time of the last day, decreased between 10% and 20%.
Will Elon Musk have influenced this? We do not know. The most curious of all is that on Reddit they began to speculate, more jokingly than seriously, that the billionaire would buy Valorant and start blocking critics.
Seen seen with Twitter, maybe we won’t take it so seriously.