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I saw him in Machete and people were calling him the real life Tony Stark. With little other context I just assumed he was a cool guy. After all people were alw

I saw him in Machete and people were calling him the real life Tony Stark. With little other context I just assumed he was a cool guy. After all people were always super positive about his projects. In fact, I don’t think I actually heard Elon Musk speak freely until the cybertruck announcement. By then he started appearing on YouTube channels I watch and my opinion of him has done nothing but lower ever since. I’m wondering if my experience was only my experience, was Elon Musk surrounded by good marketers who made sure the right things were said 10 years ago but he somehow lost them along the way? Because he is definitely not the man with the mystique he used to have for me.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
Not sure if he had good marketers, I think he himself is a good marketer. But restraint is very hard. Especially when you love to talk. Which he clearly does if we judge by his tweets. It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly revert to being yourself.
- spiralx 3y ago
  > It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly revert to being yourself. Hah, I'd never have considered the parallels between Big Brother and Twitter before but you're spot on here - even more so when you consider the existence of Celebrity Big Brother showing that celebrities are - of course - people who act like people do. Musk isn't the only famous person who's been unable to stop revealing who they are on Twitter, but he's certainly the one who's taken it the farthest.

3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago

Not sure if he had good marketers, I think he himself is a good marketer. But restraint is very hard. Especially when you love to talk. Which he clearly does if we judge by his tweets. It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly revert to being yourself.

spiralx 3y ago
> It's a bit like how in Big Brother and other reality shows people first try to show their best side, to show restraint. But over time, and with stress, despite all the cameras, despite the knowledge the world watches, you slowly revert to being yourself. Hah, I'd never have considered the parallels between Big Brother and Twitter before but you're spot on here - even more so when you consider the existence of Celebrity Big Brother showing that celebrities are - of course - people who act like people do. Musk isn't the only famous person who's been unable to stop revealing who they are on Twitter, but he's certainly the one who's taken it the farthest.