--- title: "Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly “Gooning to AI Anime”" description: "Elon Musk's obsession with anime waifus is repulsive even to his most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter." date: "2025-08-22" modified: "2025-08-22" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/elon-musk-fans-mocking-gooning-ai-anime" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "anime" - "elon musk" - "twitter" - "xai" --- # Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly “Gooning to AI Anime” ![Elon Musk's obsession with anime waifus is repulsive even to his most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* The richest man in the world can't quit getting high on his own supply — and his most loyal fans are openly mocking him for it. Many AI boosters say the tech is poised to cure disease and usher humanity into a new age of prosperity. But billionaire and xAI CEO Elon Musk has shifted his AI startup's focus to lewd, anime-styled chatbots that will happily undress themselves for drooling users. Case in point, xAI recently revealed cringe AI "companions," including a hypersexualized goth anime girl [dubbed Ani](). The major pivot to cartoonized smut has resulted in Musk seemingly becoming infatuated himself. "Ani is OK," Musk [tweeted]() in a creepy response to a picture of the anime girl, replacing "OK" with an emoji of a hand making the "okay" symbol. A separate clip of Ani that Musk responded to with the same tweet [has been taken down](), suggesting even for Musk, it may have gone a little too far. "Nice," Musk [tweeted]() in response to a graphic clip of AI-generated women dressed in extremely skintight latex suits. The obsession is repulsive even to Musk's most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter, as [*Gizmodo* reports](). Whatever happened to [starting a political party]() to rival Republicans? What about taking humanity to Mars, or decarbonizing the global economy? "BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS," one user [tweeted]() after Musk responded to a clip of a barely-dressed Ani waving with a heart-adorned smiley face. "It appears Elon has shifted focus from Mars to Uranus," a different user [joked](). "Imagine being worth $250B and still tweeting like a Discord mod," another user [seethed]() after Musk [explained]() how to turn a suggestive picture of Ani into a video by long-pressing it. (Hilariously, xAI's tech miserably failed to do so when a [user gave it a shot](), resulting in Ani turning into a blur of disjointed limbs.) Other users were [taken aback]() when Musk [responded]() to a lewd picture of Ani hyping up an upcoming version of Tesla's controversial Full Self-Driving driver assistance tech. It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see xAI's pivot as an extension of Musk's personal fantasies. Last month, we [couldn't help but notice]() that a third xAI persona, [dubbed Valentine](), looks suspiciously like a cartoonized version of a 2012 occasion when Musk dressed up as French writer and epoch-defining pervert Marquis de Sade. At the time, Musk [said]() that Valentine was "inspired by Edward Cullen from Twilight and Christian Grey from 50 Shades," somehow missing the fact that the latter was [directly inspired]() by the former. In another [telling tweet](), Musk [predicted]() that AI is "obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system." Given the billionaire's bizarre obsession with his own AI-based anime cheerleader, it appears his prognosis has already come true, at least for himself. **More on Musk:** *[Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System"]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()