Ages ago Elon Musk used to be positively regarded by most people. I missed everything that happened that changed the public opinion, I missed the changes he imposed on Twitter (though I gather it’s the same as it happened with reddit, only earlier) and yeah. I’m out of the loop. If someone can briefly recap the main events I’d be grateful.
For me, things went like this: Pre-pandemic, everybody wants to own a tesla ev, Elon is smoking pot with Joe Rogan and the world is cheering. Then the pandemic hits. Then the pandemic lifts. Then in 2023 all of a sudden everyone online saying he’s awful, a blood emerald hoarder, destroyer of twitter, tesla stinks, etc etc. Did it all happen overnight? Was there a main trigger event or was it a gradual thing? What, exactly happened to twitter after his takeover- is reddit truly a by-the-book carbon copy of his decisions with API changes?
I’ve been living under a rock.
He did a heel turn.
He bought twitter after trying to wiggle out of the deal and then ruined it, decided to go full right wing crazy, and consistently keeps trying to pretend he’s not an idiot with a lot of money.
IIRC Musk was never really that serious about purchasing, let alone actually running Twitter, until those lawsuits and fines that would have resulted in him backing out of the Twitter deal at the last minute were literally hanging over his head.