Elon Musk's self-proclaimed persona as a top-class gamer took a thrashing as video game enthusiasts mercilessly mocked the tech billionaire.

Elon Musk recently claimed to be one of the best video gamers in the universe. But many hardcore gamers aren’t buying it.

The allegations amount to a sort of stolen valor for video games and center on some recent livestreams in which Musk played Path of Exile 2, a popular online role-playing game in which players select from a number of characters to end corruption spreading through the fictional world of Wraeclast.