Huge Crowd of Gamers Boos Elon Musk for Ruining Twitter – Futurism

“Like getting wedgies [from] the anime club.”Shouted DownElon Musk most certainly has his fanboys — but it appears that he may have lost the gamers.Musk was, as video from a tournament for the first person hero shooter Valorant shows, booed by a giant crowd of angry esports enthusiasts when he made a surprise appearance on their turf over the weekend.As Insider notes, the owner of the social network formerly known as Twitter and one of his kids were spotted attending the Valorant tournament at Los Angeles’ KIA Forum, which seats more than 17,000 people. A livestream of the conference’s proceedings cut to the pair sitting in the audience, which apparently irritated the crowd surrounding them so badly that they began loudly booing — a sound that was captured on the stream’s audio even after whoever was operating it cut back to the gameplay.”Where is that from?” one of the tournament’s commentators is heard saying in the stream snippet. “That can’t be from in here, surely.”Boo YouIt looks and sounds like the boos were indeed coming from inside the event, and people could be heard shouting “bring back Twitter” at the multi-hyphenate billionaire — and, of course, the jeers didn’t end on
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