Although I’ve been a heavy Twitter user since 2009, and a certified Musk Hater since 2022, I did not personally become aware of Adrian Dittmann until February 2024, when X user Liam Nissan™ brought newfound attention to the account. Prior to that, I hadn’t even heard of the “Spaces” feature that Dittmann had built a life around promoting.

Upon first hearing the sock puppet accusation, I scrolled Adrian’s timeline. He certainly tweeted like Musk. (*One notable exception is that Adrian used heart hands 🫶, while Musk would tend to use the heart itself ❤️. I suspect because he’s playing younger, and heart hands are a post-Gen X thing.)

After listening to some recorded Spaces, I didn’t understand why it was even a question — he didn’t even try to disguise his voice.

This wasn’t the first time a Musk alt had been outed. As a matter of fact, just a few days after Adrian Dittmann hosted his very first Twitter Space (4/20/23), he was caught roleplaying as his own 3-year-old son (@Ermnmusk), something he’d be forced to admit in court in March 2024.

On 4/24/23, on a Musk tweet promoting the use of subscriptions, commentors immediately noticed the additional icon displayed, revealing Musk’s burner / “test account”.

There is an oft-circulated tweet referring to the “King of SpaceX” that is fake, the original tweet is in honor of “Lil X’s” third birthday.

(Seriously, beyond his benefits as a human shield, there is something very, very wrong about Musk’s level of attachment for just that one kid.) Although Musk was mocked at great length for tweeting as his toddler, the only thing it revealed was how incredibly lame he is — and that’s something most people were already figuring out.

I believe the fallout from that self-doxing may have contributed to him leaning in harder on his Dittmann persona. Or (perhaps more likely), he deliberately posted the screenshot revealing the X Æ A-XII burner because that one just makes him look like pathetic, while Dittmann reveals stock manipulation and fraud.

Adrian Dittmann’s account was started in July 2021, potentially by a real life superfan in Fiji named Adrian Dittmann. I am more inclined to believe it was Musk from the jump, though I may be wrong on that. In April of 2023, when it came time for a heavy push to get people to stick around (those user minutes!), and to promote Spaces…. well, Musk considers himself his best salesman. A true blue (or red, whatever he needs to be) narcissist, and, frankly, an incredibly lonely man who really took to the community he was building in his Prince & the Pauper scheme.

Before Adrian ever stated participating in Spaces, he did a lot of “GM” engagement farming replies. (It’s an NFT/Crypto Community thing. They all spam each other with “GM” or “GN” posts [Good Morning, Good Night] and it’s supposed to foster goodwill and positivity.) I don’t know that he was doing all of those himself, but by the time he took to a microphone, the character was being played by Elon Musk.

I’ve seen some folks claim it was him using a “voice disguiser”, which is odd because I’ve never heard him even try to not sound like him. If he didn’t sound like him, the whole scam wouldn’t work … Literally no one would listen to Adrian if they didn’t believe him to be Elon Musk, and Musk offers them the chance to be in on the joke. There are some people who have sincerely held doubts that Adrian is Elon, but the ones who call it a “conspiracy theory”, or who say that only a subtard would believe it to be him…. 100% of the time, they’re just happy to be in on it and think they’re getting the inside scoop.

Next up, let’s talk about Adrian’s Dad, Toralf. Toralf threw me for a serious loop….

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