It turns out it was all a hoax, starting from a tweet by an anonymous user on platform X.

If you are in debt for rent, utility bills or medical treatment costs, perhaps many people will no longer have to worry about finding ways to cope if this idea becomes a reality. An application said to be proposed by billionaire Elon Musk will allow people in financial difficulty to post debts, then wait for bored billionaires to choose and pay them for them.

This idea is described as working similar to a dating app. Instead of swiping through potential partners, billionaires will scroll through the list of people in need, review each debt and then decide who is the lucky person to pay the bill.

From electricity bills, rent, medical expenses to personal loans can all be posted to the platform. Rich people just need to choose the debt they want to pay off, while people in debt can continue with their lives without having to worry about the bill at the end of the month.

The version circulating on social networks even humorously mentions the possibility that users must buy the Premium package to get priority from the application to introduce billionaires. It seems that even the chance of having the rich pay off your debt for you may require a paid subscription!

The story quickly attracted attention on social networks. It is not difficult to understand that this idea received a response, because few people would refuse the opportunity to have an unfamiliar billionaire help pay their debts.

However, perhaps Mr. Elon Musk will have to say: "Sorry, I didn't say that!". Because in reality, this billionaire has never proposed building the above application. This was just a joke on social networks, then it was associated with his name.

The person who actually came up with this idea was an account named La-Ndlovu. On October 22, this account posted a casual statement about creating an application so people in debt can find bored billionaires and ask them to pay their debts. The post quickly went viral, attracting more than 2 million views.

Initially, the content did not mention Elon Musk at all, nor was there any business plan or technology project behind this idea. Simply, it's just a joke about how rich people can use their free time and assets to help people in need.

However, about a week later, the story began to reappear with a different version. The name of the person who came up with the original idea was replaced by Mr. Elon Musk, turning an anonymous joke into a proposal that supposedly came from one of the world's most famous billionaires.

Notably, there is no corresponding information on Mr. Musk's personal account or from major media agencies confirming that this billionaire actually made the above proposal.

What's interesting is that the person who came up with the original idea is almost never remembered, while the person whose name is labeled probably doesn't even know this story exists. After just one name change, a joke with more than 2 million views has a globally famous main character.

As for those in debt, this application probably still only exists in the imagination. But who knows, if one day it really appears, there will be many people willing to register an account. Anyway, losing money buying the Premium package is still more comfortable than having to pay the entire bill yourself at the end of the month!