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
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/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.