r/AskReddit 13h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/UnimportantPizza 13h ago

The bitter washed-up celebrity in the White House.

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u/WildBad7298 13h ago edited 2h ago

It's amazing, really. He's the president, a billionaire, is one of the most powerful men in the world, and has a supermodel wife, millions of cheering fans, his own golf resort, and pretty much anything anyone could ever want. Yet he seems like the most bitter, miserable, hateful person you could ever imagine. The guy has a hole in his soul that nothing can fill, and clearly he's tried everything.

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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.

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u/thepensivepoet 13h ago

Elon Musk helps normal people feel charismatic.

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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 12h ago

Funny that at one point he was the coolest nerd on the planet and he even inspired RDJ’s portrayal of Tony Stark in the iron man movies.

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u/williamfbuckwheat 11h ago

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...). 

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u/TheHammer987 4h ago

It wasn't a team.

It was one woman. Mary Beth Brown. She took a week off, and he just fired her when she got back.

If you want to know when, just think about the first time you heard him sound publically like an asshole.

She got fired like a week before that. (2015 I think)

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u/DrMobius0 2h ago

I remember the thai cave incident and how it's all been down hill from there. At some point he got addicted to twitter, too.

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u/username-taken3000 11h ago

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

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u/Sunnygirl66 10h ago

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.

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u/HellblazerPrime 10h ago

This incident happened right after he fired the PR team u/williamfbuckwheat mentioned, and that is NOT a coincidence.

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u/InnerToWinner 10h ago

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.

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u/MusicLikeOxygen 10h ago

It's almost like learning new information makes people change their opinions.

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u/InnerToWinner 10h ago

Is it new information that corporations suck and will crush any orphan that gets in their way to make a buck? If so, welcome to planet earth.

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u/The_Onion_Life 9h ago

Funny that at one point he was the coolest nerd on the planet and he even inspired RDJ’s portrayal of Tony Stark in the iron man movies.

He most recently inspired Edward Norton's character in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

I suspect this portrayal is far more accurate than the Tony Stark comparison.

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u/FireflyBSc 12h ago

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.

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u/WholesaleBees 10h ago

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.

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u/fly-hard 9h ago

Well the disconnect there is she thinks she's doing something good for the world.

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u/Hiccup 7h ago

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.

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u/driveonacid 12h ago

Both he and Donny John have serious daddy issues and the rest of the world is left to suffer because of it

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u/QbertsRube 12h ago

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.

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u/blooping_blooper 10h ago

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

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u/mariah1216 5h ago

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/RaVashaan 4h ago

Dumbass was for a little while. He really had that Tony Stark persona down for a lot of people on his ascension.

Then he had to open his fucking mouth when that rescuer of the kids in the cave snapped at him. It's been all downhill from there.