Last month, a young woman with Rapunzel-length blond hair lip-synced in a post for TikTok that she was “famous for having daddy issues”. A million people watched it. Some called her an icon. That’s because, as she claimed in another TikTok, “I’m not just a bitch, I’m a bitch with a backstory.”
Vivian Jenna Wilson is the daughter of billionaire tech CEO and easily dislikable egomaniac Elon Musk. But being his child is just one piece of that “backstory”. Wilson, 20, is a transgender woman whose father considers her to be “dead”. “So my son … is dead. Killed by the woke mind virus,” Musk said in a July interview with Jordan Peterson, a rightwing thought leader, misgendering and deadnaming Wilson. Musk followed up on X that Wilson “was born gay and slightly autistic, two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria”. Wilson clapped back on Threads that Musk “doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there”. Two weeks later, she capitalized on the positive reception to her screed and started her TikTok account.
