Yeah, exactly this. Musk managed to coast for a while on a “Tony Stark” image with the PR team’s assistance. Once that was gone, some of his hardcore fans surely stuck around, but people who had no emotional investment in his image were just like “oh, this guy sucks actually.”
It’s funny because a lot of people cite this exchange as the time when it finally clicked for them that Elon is a grifter.
Makes me wonder if Trump’s cult possess a similar invisible red line, or not?
It was the first time he was in the spotlight after he fired his PR team in 2017
Yeah, exactly this. Musk managed to coast for a while on a “Tony Stark” image with the PR team’s assistance. Once that was gone, some of his hardcore fans surely stuck around, but people who had no emotional investment in his image were just like “oh, this guy sucks actually.”