During a Twitch stream on January 19, 2025, Quintin "Quin69" reacted to a video from YouTuber NikoWrex claiming Elon Musk admitted to paying others to boost his accounts in Path of Exile 2 and Diablo 4. The supposed confession was backed up by NikoWrex showcasing his DMs with Elon on X.
Quin69 has been at the forefront of gamers and streamers who have criticized Elon Musk's gameplay of Path of Exile 2. The streamer's video claiming the billionaire had been using account manipulation to boost the in-game character without knowing the basics of the RPG went viral last week.
In NikoWrex's video, one can see the YouTuber showing his alleged DMs with Elon Musk, in which he directly asks the latter if he had had "level boosted":
"Have you level boosted (had someone also pay your accounts) and/or purchased gear/resources for PoE2 and Diablo 4?"
Elon Musk apparently reacted to the YouTuber's question with a '100' emoji, and supposedly claimed that it was impossible to compete with Asian players without account manipulation and boosting:
"It is impossible to beat the players in Asia if you don't, as they do!"
Elon Musk allegedly said that top accounts in Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2 engage in account manipulation:
"The top accounts in Diablo or PeE require multiple people playing the account to win a levelling race."
Quin69 found this reaction hilarious and stated:
"I didn't notice that! He reacted with a 100 emoji, bro. 'Yeah boy, I'm f**king boosting! Full cheat mode baby.'"
Quin69 also reacted to the supposed comment from Elon Musk justifying boosting his Path of Exile 2 account. He also denied the allegation about other top players engaging in boosting:
"It's completely false, what the f**ck is he talking about? This is complete cope. I don't know what to tell you, this is hard f**king cope. To think that all the top players in PoE [are boosted].
"Oh yeah, Ben[Path of Exile content creator], the reason he is good at PoE is not because he is literally doing f**king 24 hour streams playing PoE, popping the f**k off, playing like a complete beast. No, it's because he got some f**king guy in Asia playing on his accounts when he is asleep."
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At the end of his hour-long reaction to NikoWrex's video, Quin69 compared Elon Musk to competing in the Olympics and using super drugs to "cheat":
"It's like he is rocking up to the Olympics and he has just got some next-level f**king steroid drugs that's just making him some sort of a super human. He didn't do any preparation or planning or practice. He just injects the drug and is like, 'Hey, nah. Everyone else is doing it so it's fine for me to do it.' He is basically doing drugs to cheat."
Quin69 will appear on Piers Morgan's show to talk about the Elon Musk Path of Exile 2 controversy
HasanAbi recently made claims on his Twitch stream about mainstream political journalists reaching out to him to contact Quin69 about his video about Elon Musk's alleged cheating. It seems that Quin69 has accepted one such request, confirming that he will be on Piers Morgan Uncensored.
The Twitch streamer stated that the Piers Morgan interview was "locked in" but expressed doubt about there being a debate considering Elon Musk had supposedly admitted to getting his Path of Exile 2 accounts boosted:
"Piers Morgan thing is locked in, it's locked in. I got to get ready for that. Although, what is the debate going to be on now? There was supposed to be a debate about whether or not Elon Musk was cheating or not, so um, he just kind of admitted it straight up."
The streamer noted that his segment for the Piers Morgan Uncensored would be recorded on Wednesday, January 22, 2025:
"When? I don't know. It's getting recorded on Wednesday, and it's currently Monday. So I have today, tomorrow, and then Wednesday. So I don't think I can stream that. I am confident I cannot stream it. So, I am going to have to come stream super chill as it is happening early in the morning."
The Elon Musk Path of Exile 2 drama has been a major talking point in the streaming community over the last week or so. Especially after the Tesla CEO called out Twitch streamer Asmongold and leaked DMs after the content creator criticized his alleged account manipulation.