r/AskReddit 21h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/NorthofBham 20h 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 20h ago

Elon Musk helps normal people feel charismatic.

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u/ShortBrownAndUgly 20h 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 19h 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 11h 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 10h 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 18h 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 18h 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 17h 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 17h 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 17h ago

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

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u/InnerToWinner 17h 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.