Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended from China's versions of TikTok and Twitter

• Elon Musk's Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, has been suspended on Chinese social media.
• Insider saw that his accounts on China's TikTok and Twitter were wiped clean at press time.

Elon Musk's viral Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma, appears to have been suspended on the Chinese versions of TikTok and Twitter.

At press time, Insider saw that $4 — China's version of TikTok — had been purged of all content. At the same time, a content-restriction notification citing a violation of the platform's policies was slapped on $4, the country's Twitter-like platform.

Representatives from Douyin's parent company, Bytedance, and Weibo's parent company, Sina, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

In a response to press queries from Insider, Ma said he had not received an appropriate explanation from Weibo or Douyin on why his account was suspended. At press time, he had not responded to a follow-up request from Insider to verify via video call if he truly resembled Musk.

At press time, $4 on the international version of TikTok, where he is known by the username "Elong Musk," was still active. Ma has more than 239,000 followers on the platform, with about 3.9 million likes on his videos.

"All platform videos are ported, I only have TikTok. I love you," said the profile description on Ma's TikTok page. Ma $4 in November 2020 for videos that appeared to show a striking resemblance to Musk. He later attracted the attention of Musk when the Tesla CEO quipped in response to a clip of Ma that he, too, $4

Ma subsequently uploaded several videos on TikTok, including one in which he expressed his thoughts on Musk's high-profile acquisition of Twitter. In this clip, he points excitedly at a printout of the Twitter icon, calling it "my bird!"

@mayilong0 This is a free bird. I like him and I'm going to go to him right now. Because Elon Musk is my brother#elonmusk #tesla #twitter ♬ dance(256762) - TimTaj

Ma's latest video on TikTok is a photo compilation of him posing in front of a Tesla, captioned: "I want to take my brother for a ride in my Tesla! #elonmusk #tesla."

@mayilong0 I want to take my brother for a ride in my Tesla!#elonmusk #tesla ♬ GASLIGHT - INJI

Ma's popularity later $4.

"I'd like to meet this guy (if he is real)," Musk $4. "Hard to tell with deepfakes these days."

"I am here. I want very much to see you too! I love you, you are my hero," Ma $4 in a post on Weibo.