A Chinese man has gone viral on social media for his facial resemblance to Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO. But his Chinese social media account was recently banned by the Chinese authorities.
Dubbed Yilong Ma on social media, Musk’s doppelgänger in China caught the attention of the American billionaire in December 2021, when a short video showed him standing by a car in a garage, with his face looking like a copy of Musk. Elon Musk tweeted humorously on Dec. 20 in a response: “Maybe I’m partly Chinese!” Maybe I’m partly Chinese!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021 Yilong Ma could be a pseudonym, as his first name sounds like “Elon” in Mandarin, and “Ma” sounds similar to “Musk” in Chinese. Ma’s TikTok account “mayilong0” now has 238,300 followers.
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