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As a Tesla owner (but not a Musk fan!) I've definitely noticed a lot more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas and Tesla owners recently. The average person

by glonq 4y ago

As a Tesla owner (but not a Musk fan!) I've definitely noticed a lot more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas and Tesla owners recently. The average person is already poorly emotionaly/intellectually equipped to resolve "I can dislike Thing A1 but like Thing A2", but with cancel culture mentality so pervasive now, people are expected to hate all Things A_

tosc 4y ago
People developing negative associations with brands because of the behavior of their representatives long pre-dates “cancel culture”.
duxup 4y ago
People identify with and identify others with brands… and I suspect they have done that since brands existed.
mardifoufs 4y ago
The average person does not care about twitter, and even if they do, there's still a half half split on whether they'd disagree or not with Elon. The entire thing is almost completely confined to a certain, extremely online slice of the internet.
- colechristensen 4y ago
  No just about everybody has an opinion about Elon now. The news loves Twitter so everybody gets to hear about it. My parents who have never touched Twitter are asking me what I think about him. Worlds (once) richest man buys social network and acts foolish is a compelling story.
bestcoder69 4y ago
Maybe the average person doesn’t want to be struck by a car running a half-baked FSD? I’ve seen a lot more about this lately - & from people like Dan Luu, so, far from hysterical. It’s also invalid to think, “since people cancelled A1 recently, it must be illogical to have built up a new-found dislike of A2.” Plenty of independent reasons to hate A2! Correlation and causation, y’know?
findalex 4y ago
> more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas maybe cat is out of the bag that the interior feels like that of a power wheels?
cactusplant7374 4y ago
Tesla doesn't have a marketing department so learning about Tesla's happens through Musk on Twitter. Imagine going to a dealership and the sales person proceeds to talk about Trump and how the election was stolen -- and then you realize it's actually the CEO! It would turn me off. The experience wouldn't be very good. I would feel these people might not have the brain power to build the car correctly.

by glonq 4y ago

tosc 4y ago

People developing negative associations with brands because of the behavior of their representatives long pre-dates “cancel culture”.

duxup 4y ago

People identify with and identify others with brands… and I suspect they have done that since brands existed.

mardifoufs 4y ago

The average person does not care about twitter, and even if they do, there's still a half half split on whether they'd disagree or not with Elon. The entire thing is almost completely confined to a certain, extremely online slice of the internet.

colechristensen 4y ago
No just about everybody has an opinion about Elon now. The news loves Twitter so everybody gets to hear about it. My parents who have never touched Twitter are asking me what I think about him. Worlds (once) richest man buys social network and acts foolish is a compelling story.

bestcoder69 4y ago

Maybe the average person doesn’t want to be struck by a car running a half-baked FSD? I’ve seen a lot more about this lately - & from people like Dan Luu, so, far from hysterical. It’s also invalid to think, “since people cancelled A1 recently, it must be illogical to have built up a new-found dislike of A2.” Plenty of independent reasons to hate A2! Correlation and causation, y’know?

findalex 4y ago

> more scorn and spite directed towards Teslas maybe cat is out of the bag that the interior feels like that of a power wheels?

cactusplant7374 4y ago

Tesla doesn't have a marketing department so learning about Tesla's happens through Musk on Twitter. Imagine going to a dealership and the sales person proceeds to talk about Trump and how the election was stolen -- and then you realize it's actually the CEO! It would turn me off. The experience wouldn't be very good. I would feel these people might not have the brain power to build the car correctly.