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It looks like Elon Musk has an even bigger sycophant than his AI model Grok.<\/p>\n
According to a new analysis by The Washington Post<\/a>, the world\u2019s richest man appears to be obsessed with an anonymous account on X named \u201cXFreeze\u201d that he\u2019s interacted with more than any other user on the platform this year. And naturally, the main thing XFreeze posts about is Musk.\u00a0<\/p>\n The account, which WaPo traced to a man in India, constantly lavishes the site\u2019s owner with praise: boosting his business ventures, attacking his enemies, and sharing inane memes that Musk invariably loves. Two years ago, XFreeze\u2019s following was nonexistent, but today the account boasts over 200,000 followers, after assiduously courting the billionaire\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n As the reporting gets into, it\u2019s a symbiotic relationship. Musk has a prominent mouthpiece that he can constantly boost to create the illusion of organic, popular support. And the account gets to cash in on the ridiculous amount of engagement that Musk\u2019s endorsements drive.<\/p>\n \u201cMusk loves to be glazed, and this person is the doughnut factory,\u201d Joan Donovan, assistant professor of journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University, told WaPo.<\/p>\n XFreeze\u2019s constant adulation of Musk is a \u201ccultural hack,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s very clear to me that this communication is for one person alone.\u201d<\/p>\n On top of exemplifying Musk\u2019s long-held pattern of surrounding himself with yes-men, it\u2019s also an example of Musk\u2019s tireless quest to reshape reality around himself, and drive narratives that support his worldview. His \u201cmaximum truth-seeking AI\u201d Grok<\/a> was created as anti-woke answer to the tech industry\u2019s muzzled, politically correct chatbots. He bought Twitter, a left-leaning epicenter of internet culture and a key pipeline for dispersing news, and turned it into a space where he can safely share edgy memes, racist conspiracy theories, and boost self-identified Nazis<\/a>. Believing Wikipedia to be too \u201cwoke,\u201d he even created an entire knockoff version written by his AI called Grokipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n XFreeze, in that context, has been a godsend for Musk. Three out of every four posts the account has made this year were about Musk or his businesses like SpaceX and Tesla, WaPo found, with the remainder covering Musk\u2019s favorite bugbears like wokeness and crime. Recent XFreeze posts that Musk has reshared include<\/strong> a post summarizing his biographer Walter Isaacson\u2019s explanation on how Musk builds rockets, another post calling Musk\u2019s satellite internet service Starlink the \u201cinvisible backbone of Earth,\u201d and another post<\/a> made on Mother\u2019s Day with an interview snippet of his mother calling him a \u201cgenius and a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n You have to admire the effort. Shortly after creating the account in 2024, XFreeze sent this tweet into the void: \u201cHow do I reach 100 followers on X?\u201d After months of tweeting about various tech related topics and going nowhere, XFreeze made a now minorly historic declaration:\u00a0\u201cSit tight and have a view while I am working my way up the ladder.\u201d In the months following, the Musk flunky act began.<\/p>\n XFreeze\u2019s tireless glazing has proved particularly useful for Musk during his blockbuster trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a>. While a judge ordered Musk to stop tweeting about the trial after he repeatedly attacked the OpenAI camp, including by quoting XFreeze posts that echoed some of Musk\u2019s sensational claims, XFreeze continued its assault on OpenAI and Altman in his stead.<\/p>\n Donovan speculated that Musk is boosting XFreeze because he wants his opinions \u201cto come from a different source,\u201d because the billionaire \u201cis not getting the press he wants\u201d about his lawsuit against OpenAI.<\/p>\n