Elon Musk needs no introduction. As the richest man in the world, he's an entrepreneur, engineer, philanthropist, and Time's newly crowned person of the year.
But it turns out he's not as irreplaceable as you might think. At least, that's what one viral video - which captured Musk's uncannily identical doppelganger - would have us believe.
The clip was originally posted to Douyin - the Chinese app similar to TikTok - but has since made its way to other social media platforms. One version of the video posted on TikTok has already been viewed over 5.4 million times since it was posted earlier this month.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Musk has a huge internet presence thanks to his active Twitter account. His face is very recognizable - so it makes sense that someone approached his doppelganger with a camera.
In the clip, Musk's lookalike is standing in what appears to be a multi-story car park talking to the man behind the camera. Not only is he a dead ringer for the billionaire with the same features and build - but he's even standing outside of a Tesla.
The video doesn't clarify whether the person recording genuinely thought he'd spotted Elon Musk or was just amazed at the uncanny resemblance. In the version of the clip reposted to TikTok, it has been captioned "Musk's twin brother is in China! Cool."
Meanwhile, many people have taken to the TikTok comments section to share their amazement over the similarity between the entrepreneur and his Asian lookalike, who has been dubbed "Yi Long Musk" by social media.
"He looks more like Elon Musk than Elon Musk," wrote one person.
"He can definitely unlock Elon's phone," added another in reference to the smartphone's face ID feature.
However, for others, the similarity is too close to be true. They argue that the video is a deep fake - a form of artificial intelligence that projects one face onto another. Because deep fakes mold themselves to the original face and shift with their facial expressions and movement, they can be eerily realistic.
"Pretty good deep fake," commented one person.
"These deep fakes getting real good," added another user.
Meanwhile, others took the conspiracy theory one step further and suggests that the man in the video was actually Musk's clone.
"That's not a twin...that's a clone," one wrote.
"Oh my god his clone for real. I bet he has one in every color," a second joked.
