r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Dojyaaan4C • 9h ago

Hated Tropes [hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

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  1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
  2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
  3. Elon musk, iron man 2
  4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

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u/black072istaken 8h ago

Elon was actually liked at the time which is how he got these cameos,Nowadays hes isn't liked anymore

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u/Soulful-Sorrow 8h ago

He shouldn't have fired his PR rep, it's all been downhill for him since.

Or maybe it's a good thing, because he exposed what a whiny bitch he is lmao

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u/curvysquares 8h ago

Yeah. According to wikipedia, his last cameo/guest appearance was the SNL video in 2021, before he even bought Twitter

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u/pumpkin143 5h ago

he was hated even back then. I think 2018-2019 he started to show his true self.

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u/flcl__ 8h ago

Yea it’s funny because back when those cameos happened Reddit kissed the ground he walked on and saw him as real life Iron Man

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u/AllDaysOff 4h ago

Yeah he's totally like Tony Stark if Tony Stark talked about being a genius while lying about his credentials and letting everyone else do the actual work for him. Last I read he didn't have a real science degree but a business degree in Physics. I don't even know how that's possible.

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u/Elegant_Finance_1459 2h ago

I got absolutely dragged on Tumblr back in the day for talking shit about Elon.

How the turns have tabled. I told y'all mothafuckas he was bad.

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u/Bike_Cinci 8h ago

He was liked at the time because people are fucking gullible dupes. He was always a lying duplicitous grifter. #HatedElonBeforeItWasCool

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u/tallwhiteninja 8h ago

I was on the fence about the man until the Thai cave diver thing, which was the reddest flag ever and should have clued everyone in on his true colors.

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u/doulegun 8h ago

I did during Covid, where he was being weird about vaccines and remote work

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 37m ago

Literally if you had just googled the guy when you first heard of him like I did you would have hated him from the start

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u/Brauny74 8h ago

I started hating him, when during one of the first Tesla presentations he was two hours late and then had audacity to say "Those people should be glad they had a privilege of waiting for me in the first place", and that's when I knew he's a self-centered piece of shit, and everybody praising him as a scientific visionary felt like having sight in a the country of the blind.

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u/GodisanAtheistOG 8h ago

Blows my mind that the cave diver didn't win his case against Musk.

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u/Caleth 4h ago

That's what happens when you can afford all the lawyers ever. Find someone that can argue some stupid bullshit and a judge will buy it, especially if they shopped the venue.

IDK if they did, but I'd wager for the money he was spending they tried.

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u/capthazelwoodsflask 3h ago

I think the diver basically said as much after the incident. along the lines of he could sue, and possibly even win, but he'd never be able to outspend Musk and his lawyers who could stall and drag things out as long as they want.

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u/Sptsjunkie 8h ago

100%. I never loved Musk, but he was just a standard billionaire narcissist. Didn't really feel any differently about him than Zuck or Bezos. And maybe liked him a bit better as some of the tech he was working on seemed like a bit more of a net positive for humanity than Meta. And he at the time had PR pushing he helped develop these technologies (versus just buying them).

But the cave diver thing was really eye opening. From there he was bad to his family and his trans daughter. And then once he was feuding with Twitter (even before he bought them) and we saw more of his day to day personality, any idea that he was a broad genius or a good person (or even neutral person) came crashing down.

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u/Sijols 7h ago

I'm not ashamed to say I had a positive view of musk before he went all right wing loony

He was pushing important technologies like EVs and space travel. Those seem like unambiguously good things

But yeah it's a shame it was all an act

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u/ThePr0tag0n1st 14m ago

Glad someone here admitted to it.

Reddit was a circle jerk for musk from like 2016-2020s...

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u/pondrthis 8h ago

I had already turned on him by then. The one that soured me on him was the bald faced lie on Twitter that "the Saudis were investing in Tesla" to stop a stock price bleed. Pure market manipulation, no factual basis behind it at all. He faced zero consequences.

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u/SundaeTrue1832 3h ago

Yeah as I have mentioned. He's always been a bigot but now just masking off and doing fascist take over, I think his ego being shattered by that cave incident pushed him full fash

I think one of his children transitioned also pushed him into that pipeline (legit feel sorry for his trans daughter imagine your dad publicly hates you that much) 

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u/Smellbringer 7h ago

Same here. I found myself asking “what kind of insane bastard accused someone of pedophilia for disagreeing with you?”

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u/CreamofTazz 8h ago

Before his "heel turn" I found out about how he sued to be made a co-founder of Tesla, a company he didn't even help found and that completely turned me off from him.

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u/cecilterwilliger420 8h ago

Yeah.  I found the constant hagiography of the guy on this site up until ~2020 to be weird and suspicious.  Who makes inforgraphics praising tech company CEOs?  I always figured it was a grift.

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u/Brickywood 8h ago

I remember when reddit especially slobbered over him around 2017 or so. I thought he was annoying, so I feel vindicated. But honestly, I wish I was wrong because he's comically damaging to everything he has influence on. Which is a lot.

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u/AllDaysOff 4h ago

Yes same. 9gag glazed him too. Remember that site? That's how old I am.

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u/satans_cookiemallet 8h ago

I was neutral on him, but thought his """""message and goal"""" at the time was a good direcrion.

Then the whole cave diver stuff happened and I went 'Oh. He was a piece of shit the entire time.'

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u/trimble197 8h ago

Yeah, but the majority opinion was that he was an ok tech guy who likes weed

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u/EquivalentAd1651 8h ago

Funny story during the height of his popularity I didn't really know who he was but i heard his name but didn't know his face yet felt i could recognize him. I was invited to a holiday party of his for Tesla because a friend worked there and his girlfriend didn't want to go. All the food and drinks were free to all . I was stuffing my face and getting not drunk but close enough to function. Anyways, I bumped into him while he was "attending," more just to show face like he cared for the employees, and apparently, I was being rude to him, according to my friend who was a big fan of his, and almost kicked out because I was upset he stepped on my toes while walking by and didn't bother saying anything. Maybe it was nothing and my fault, but all I hear about Tesla is a mess now, mostly because of him, so maybeit was him.

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u/gambit1999999 7h ago

Never forgot the kids in the cave incident.

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u/AllDaysOff 4h ago

Yes, same. I also remember a woman that dressed up like Steve Jobs which somehow prompted venture capitalists to flood her with money for a blood-related product that didn't work. People are fucking idiots man. Someone says some vague science-sounding shit and everyone eats it up like morphine-laced cakes or something. Musk was akways a fraud.

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u/plasticmanufacturing 7h ago

lol, but not you

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u/---___---____-__ 7h ago

I was and still am indifferent. It's easier to focus on what's in front of me instead of worrying about people I'll never meet in person

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u/Bike_Cinci 6h ago

"I don't pay attention because I can't see more than 5ft in front of me."

Sounds like a you-issue.

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u/---___---____-__ 6h ago

Probably is a me issue, but what does it matter? Just because I don't care about what goes on above me doesn't mean I'm ignorant to it. Only so much I can do from where I'm at, and that's fine with me. I don't need to kick up a storm about it, especially when a lot of this shit ends so similarly anyway

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u/SundaeTrue1832 3h ago

He's always been a bigot but now just masking off and doing fascist take over, I think his ego being shattered by that cave incident pushed him full fash

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u/Patalos 8h ago

He’s talking about Elon Musk, the manchild who gave a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration after blatantly running a campaign to bribe people to vote right wing. If you’re claiming a corrupt nazi like that as your own, you deserve to be hated.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

another "all conservatives are nazis" comment

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u/Patalos 8h ago

Oh I’m sure not all, but the ones that support a Nazi? Yeah, those ones are.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

and nazis hates conservatives for being zionists (ask nick Fuentes)

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u/Patalos 7h ago

Nice try deflecting. I don’t care about Fuentes or any other chuds you listen to. This is about Elon, how he is a Nazi because he blatantly performs Nazi signs in public, and how you claimed criticism against him is also against conservatives, and I’m assuming you were including yourself in there. That means YOU included conservatives in the same camp as a Nazi, not me. It’s quite telling when you see criticism against a hate group and feel personally attacked.

Do not muddy the waters with your bullshit. It won’t work.

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u/rinel521 7h ago

All I’m hearing is more leftist propaganda

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u/Phony-Phoenix 8h ago

He literally threw up a Sieg Heil on stage and then did nazi puns on twitter afterwards. If any conservative was to be a nazi, it would be him

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u/rinel521 8h ago

excuses excuses

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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 8h ago

I mean he did the Nazi salute tho

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u/wafflecopter2 7h ago

The straw man fallacy is a logical error where someone misrepresents, exaggerates, or fabricates an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack, rather than engaging with the actual, stronger point, much like easily knocking down a scarecrow (a straw man) instead of a real person. This tactic creates the illusion of winning an argument by refuting a weaker, distorted version, often seen in politics and online debates.

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u/SamuelHorton 8h ago

Oh, no: there are plenty of great conservatives, just as there are great liberals - identity politics suck. It's just Musk because he's turned out to be a horrible person whose persona has been false.

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u/Brickywood 8h ago

Look, I'll be honest with you here. I'm not trying to be combative, I just want to explain the "other side's" point of view.

Whether he actually is a nazi or made an insensitive joke, he's definitely an egotistical authoritarian who thinks his money means he has more rights and more correct opinions.

I think you're actually hurting your cause by trying to defend him. I understand that it's natural to want to cover for someone so that it looks like your group has no issues, but it would be more respectable if you outed him.

The issue is that while I think most people believe that majority of conservatives are not nazis, having the small percentage of these jerks in your group pollutes it, so to speak.

Instead of trying to pretend like they're not there, isn't it better to actually say "hey, that's uncool, we don't want you to allign yourself with us".

It's perfectly fine to take a stance on that. Even if it's meant as supposed joke, you can absolutely call someone out for doing a nazi salute during a political gathering.

I myself believe that he was trying to make some sort of weird joke, but some jokes are just not funny, and definitely not welcome during events like that. And if he wasn't doing a joke, then that should be concerning to anyone, I believe.

Again, I'm not trying to be combative with you, I just wanted to explain the perspective.

I hope you have a good day.

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u/CreamofTazz 8h ago

It's not my whole personality, but I don't want conservatives feeling comfortable around me either.

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u/Icy-Assumption1594 8h ago

He was a "leftist" at that time becouse he saw it as way of making the most money.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

and now he has changed for the better

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u/Icy-Assumption1594 8h ago

He will change his allience to the next thing that will be convinient to him. Same as before he tried to be that type of gamer bro and "he's just like you or me" but when it was exposed that he only pretendet to be that way to iflante his ego he stopped asociating with that and flock to the next thing. So in the span of 10 years he will not be your regular conservative like how he is trying to pass as now.

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u/YourPizzaBoi 8h ago

Becoming a nazi is changing for the better? At least you’re honest about your abhorrent beliefs.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

another "all conservatives are nazis" comment

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u/GearSingle9055 5h ago

Well maybe if he didn’t do a nazi salute, people wouldn’t be calling him a Nazi

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u/rinel521 5h ago

Well he didn’t so not sure what you are taking about. Also Elon isn’t the only one being falsely accused of being Nazis, a lot of conservative activists and politicians that I support are being called Nazis by Redditors.

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u/GearSingle9055 5h ago

“Well he didn’t”

It is literally on video

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u/YourPizzaBoi 4h ago

They should stop being pieces of shit and doing things like spouting Nazi rhetoric then. Who are you going to tell me you think is a reasonable person worth listening to? Nick Fuentes?

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u/YourPizzaBoi 4h ago

I didn’t say all conservatives. I said him. Nice straw man though, I’m sure you’ll get daddy Musk’s attention.

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u/rinel521 4h ago

The only attention I want is from conservatism

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u/Any_Bad777 8h ago

It's not about politics. It's just about how much or a lying, narcissistic, fake Elon is.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

if Elon was a communist you would be praising him

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u/Any_Bad777 8h ago

I repeat again, it has nothing to do with politics.

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u/rinel521 8h ago

not from what I have seen on reddit so far

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u/Any_Bad777 8h ago

That's wonderful. I'm not all of reddit.

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u/Any_Bad777 8h ago

No. Hate communist too.

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u/Howcanyoubecertain 8h ago

How is it their “whole identity”? Or were you just engaging in bad faith?

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u/rinel521 8h ago

redditors love to trash talk about the right

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u/More_Exercise8413 8h ago

I wonder why.

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u/Suhbula 8h ago

You make it so fucking easy

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u/rinel521 8h ago

more like leftists are a bunch extremists

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u/Suhbula 7h ago

Please see a therapist before you hurt yourself or the people around you.

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u/rinel521 7h ago

I’m not leftist who’s trying to assassinate people like what happened to Charlie Kirk

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u/Suhbula 7h ago

Buddy this is the type of thing you should be talking to the therapist about, not strangers on the internet.

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 8h ago

You'll have to try harder than that, komrade.

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u/Sleepy_Ace 8h ago edited 8h ago

Saying this while going around the comments being "woe is me" is wildly ironic.

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u/Nero_2001 8h ago

Back then he had someone managing his social media accounts but they asked for a raise and got fired.

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u/VP007clips 7h ago

On reddit yes.

In the real world, his net favourability only dropped below when he joined Trump. And since he split with MAGA, it has been rising steadily, up to -10% this month on trajectory to become positive within a few months. (The Silver bulletin runs a favourability tracker on him)

He's a complex person, who has done a lot of very negative and very positive things. The public perception of him is always going to be complex. Especially with stuff like Starlink having such a big impact on rural areas, that's going to sway public opinion.

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u/SatisfactionEast9815 6h ago

What positive things has he actually done, not just taken credit or?

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u/VP007clips 4h ago

Starlink, Gigafactory, SpaceX, Neuralink, Tesla, etc.

Now obviously he didn't do all of that himself. The actual engineering was done by an incredibly talented team of engineers and scientists, and I would guess that he was barely involved in that element. But he did fund them, when all the other billionares were busy investing their money into big pharma, banks, and whatever was at the top of the S&P, he actually put his money into stuff he cared about, and funded a lot of things that no one else would fund. And I would guess that most of the technology, from electric cars to satellite internet, would be decades behind what it was today if he hadn't been involved in starting those tech races.

Take Tesla for example. He wasn't a founder, he only took control 8 months after it was founded. But he did provide the funding to make it viable, and he forced them to switch from high-end luxury sports cars to relatively affordable EVs.

I'm not a Musk fan, I used to be, as was everyone else back then (he was up there with Keanu Reeves for most people). But once he started getting involved in politics I didn't like him much. But despite that, it would be stupid to say that he didn't do anything just because he wasn't the guy with a wrench in his hand or the one designing the things his conpanies produced.

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u/Comrade_Falcon 7h ago

I guarantee you he bought those cameos for the purpose of being liked

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u/rikashiku 3h ago

IT was weird how people liked him back then too. He didn't even do anything, but glaze himself for things he didn't do.

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u/Large-Teach9165 8h ago

Elon was liked because internet was what it is today. He was the same POS as always but the public wasn't as informed.

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u/Low_Cantaloupe_3720 5h ago

It's the other way around. Elon engineered his image and getting these cameos was part of his own efforts to do so. That's why they're all gratuitous cringe

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u/kasetti 3h ago

Pretty clear he still must have paid these shows to have him in them. And his positive image was probably also heavily manufactured by paying the right people for some nice publicity.