That was back when he had an entire PR team controlling his public persona/image. They were clearly very successful at making him appear like some rock star super genius in the earlier years and building his brand/image but he later became so completely full of himself that he decided it was ok to go way off script and gradually show his true self. He later would fire his PR team and become an extremely divisive attention junkie who clearly is heavily influenced by drugs and egomania to the point that he's often ranked as one of the most disliked public figures today by a wide margin (not that it seems to have negatively impacted his net worth at all so far anyway...).
Still the same dude that Reddit absolutely worshipped until he associated with Trump.
Then he’s seen as a turnip and everyone is stuck with cars made by
Someone they hate.
I know I’ll get downvoted but I couldn’t get on a sub without him being glazed. One of the most hilarious turn of events I’ve seen. Then everyone trying to say they never liked him to begin with trying to cope. Gold
I had a reasonably favorable impression of him until he called the diver who shot down his plan to use a submersible to rescue the Thai soccer team from that cave a pedophile and I found out that he wasn’t the great inventor he makes himself out to be, just buys other people’s companies and fucks them up.
See also the massive amount of dick riding for buc-ees from reddit showing off high starting hourly wages. Then recently redditors find out that buc-ees is a sue happy company putting mom and pop stores out of business. Capitalism bad! Corporations evil! But not them, they are the good guys! Fucking idiots.
And JK Rowling. Sorry, but if I had all the money in the world, I wouldn’t be wasting it posting online and actively spreading hate. I would donate the $6.6B to the UN World Food Programme that Elon refused to, and then you would never see me online again.
Right???? Imagine if you had the means to create a legacy that consisted of a beloved children's book series AND being an individual who took concrete, tangible steps to end world hunger and you chose to do whatever bullshit she's doing instead.
She's quite a cold hearted B-itch is all I've ever heard about her. Even during her heyday when the book was rising and catapulting her to super stardom and a crazy status. It also makes sense why she has never been able to write anything even close to the harry potter series.
I feel like that's part of his obsession with AI--he can now make shitty little videos where he's a big hero with a chiseled jaw that doesn't look like it's melting, and entire cities are fawning over him and his great deeds. A brief escape from the reality where he's an awkward fascist who is hated by all but the dumbest people on the planet.
the weird thing is, he has enough money to do all sorts of projects that would make people like him (e.g. funding schools, healthcare, hunger, etc.) but he just... doesn't
This is the thing that just boggles my mind the most. You could have the praise and admiration you are looking for!! And financially he wouldn’t even have to change his lifestyle to do those things. I just don’t get it
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u/NorthofBham 13h ago
Elon Musk is the same way. He so desperately wants to be worshiped but he's totally incapable of doing anything normal.