I think people need a refresher course of the last 5 years or so. Because here’s the deal.
About 2017 to 2020, maybe 2021, the internet was a huge fucking fan of Elon. Including me. I LOVED Elon. Seemed like such a down to earth guy who genuinely wanted to help the human race and was super ambitious. Even if he was flawed. From what I remember, the general consensus was you either liked him, or you felt indifferent and just didn’t really care.
NOW that headspace has changed. Either you fucking hate him, or you do like him and get destroyed. Now, it took me about a year before I started to really dislike him the way the internet does. Because I felt like at the time the internet was doing what it always does. Blows shit outta proportion. That was, until I started seeing things change. Because starting about 2-3 years ago, there has been a massive ego fluctuation in Elon. His Twitter is not the same as it was back in 2019 for example. He was actually fairly level headed and would post the occasional meme. But it was always something amazing to do with Space X or Tesla. Okay, no harm there. NOW it’s full of nonsensical retarded tweets, dumbass memes left and right, tweets pretty much shitting on his own users…It’s a toxic fucking cesspool there. I mean this guy is at a point where he thinks rebranding a social media site that has been widely known to the public with one name, and one name only for YEARS, is a good idea. Let alone to rebrand it to a single fucking letter. Because why not? Kill your user base apparently.
What the hell happened to him? I understand why people dislike him now. As do I. But dude. How can someone fall from greatness like that? Being seen as the next Steve Jobs, flaws and all. To just a shadowy figure of himself? What made him go fucking insane and gain that huge ego?
To the people that would comment, “Well he’s always been like that he just shows it now”, I don’t believe it. When you have such massive egotistical and narcissistic traits, you could give two shits about showing it. He would’ve done so his whole career if he was like this. I’m not saying he NEVER had an ego, but it wasn’t anywhere fucking near the levels of where it is now.
“We were on the verge of greatness, we were THIS close!”
As an aside note, I don’t like when OP’s don’t interact with the posts they make. Especially on posts like this it would have really interesting to gain more insight on where he was coming from or if the replies are making sense in his mind.
I’m probably reading too much into this, there are many reasons not to reply, but when I see a popular post that has 0 replies by OP I feel there’s dishonesty.
If 11 years on reddit taught me anything, OPs replying to their own posts generally get downvoted to hell. UNLESS, they’re really funny and witty. A healthy dose of self-deprecation works as well!
Example; OP might reply to your comment saying, “Just hanging back a bit to see what people have to say. Don’t want to influence the discussion at the outset.”
Response; “Yeah dude, you just want to see which way the wind blows before saying anything. Pussy.”
Or, “Musk has always been an asshat and you’re just now figuring it out?!”
OP; “Well, that was my point. Sure seems like he changed drastically at some point. I’m asking what happened.”
Response; “How does the boot taste dumbass!”
OP is promptly buried alive on their own post. Interesting game. The only winning move is not to play.
Noticed this dynamic for years, no idea why it should be.
I agree. This shit smacks of AI generated discussion content.
Yeah, I thought OP sounded really naive, weird and stupid, but I think machine generated text also works.
Tbf, the OP pretty much made his stance clear out the gate: he refuses to believe “Musk has always been like that” answers. If he’s not even willing to entertain the idea at all, and the vast majority of the replies are going to (correctly, IMO. Musk is no different than Jobs, or Edison) say that he was, yeah, he was never gonna engage…