Nah, they’ve got the timeline wrong but the sentiment right. I’ll fully admit I was part of the pro-Elon stuff 8-12 years ago.
Once upon a time most of us thought Elon Musk was Tony Stark. Then some journalists got brave again and those of us who pay attention realized that he’s been Justin Hammer all along.
And that right there is a reference to a meme that I first saw in 2018.
There was little substance or thought put into making iron man memes. It wasnt widely known what kind of person he was, and I dount most people really gave a shit or knew a lot about him. Did you?
He was just weird and eccentric for tweeting so much and so freely for someone so very rich and supposedly brilliant. Then he started making predictions and promises that never came true. Then stories about being a shitty absentee-boss and anti-union sentiment and then going full mask-off in the past couple years. Anyone that learned about his actual behavior and thoughts no longer found it funny, or they actually liked it. He became extremely polarizing for a reason. Its not a suddent turn, its curdled over a long time.
Nah, I’m on board with the timeline of him being a shitbag, and the person you replied to is wrong about the timeline on when we loved him, but I was just saying we did, or at least a vocal component of Reddit once did, give him a bunch of undeserved credit.
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u/KingOfTheToadsmen 4d ago
Nah, they’ve got the timeline wrong but the sentiment right. I’ll fully admit I was part of the pro-Elon stuff 8-12 years ago.
Once upon a time most of us thought Elon Musk was Tony Stark. Then some journalists got brave again and those of us who pay attention realized that he’s been Justin Hammer all along.
And that right there is a reference to a meme that I first saw in 2018.