At the beginning of 2025 a rumor about Elon Musk circulated on social networks of those who sought to appeal to emotions. The publications claimed that, after listening to a Starbucks cashier, lamenting for not being able to buy a bicycle from his daughter, Musk intervened generously, paying the gift and offering to cover his future education. The supposed images of the encounter and phrases like “What he did later melt your heart!” They helped viralize history on platforms such as Facebook, X and Truth Social.
The story had its origin in a YouTube channel called Prime Hub, which published on December 2, 2024 A video with emotional narration and images generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Although it was presented as a real fact, the channel included a legal notice clarifying that all its stories were “purely fictitious and created exclusively for entertainment purposes.” None of the images really showed Musk inside a Starbucks.
As explained, Musk’s alleged photos talking to the cashier had clear signs of having been created with AI: Deformations in the fingers, poorly rendered logos like “Barbuck” instead of Starbucks, and inexplicable changes in Musk’s clothes. In addition, it was said that the meeting occurred at a Congress Avenue branch in Austin, but local media confirmed that this store closed in 2022.
Despite its clearly fictional origin, the story was amplified weeks later in social networks, coinciding with Musk’s appointment as After the re -election of. In this context, even more false versions arose with new altered images and sensational photo foot, which revived the bully.
Reddit and Tiktok users criticized the truth of history, pointing out visual and logical errors in the images. One made fun of the badly written photo foot that suggested that the barista had to buy a gift from Musk’s daughterwhile others noticed the inexplicable change of outfit and the physical inconsistencies between the portatted barists.
Finallythis story adds to a series of false rumors starring Elon Musk, such as that he helped a child to fix a tire or that he gathered a lost girl with his mother. All these fictitious narratives, fed by AI, seek to viralize emotional content taking advantage of the popularity of the entrepreneur, without any real foundation.
