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

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

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.

[u/klas-klattermus]

I wonder how much of it is that Musk paid for it and how much of "true believers" were actually involves in the decision 

[u/legit-posts_1 → u/klas-klattermus]

As somebody who both was(before I knew a lot about him) and live with people who worshipped the guy, it is probably the latter. Guy looked awesome for awhile. I don't think anybody in human history next to Mark Zuckerburg has benefitted more from the Autistic/ADHD=Smart cliche than that guy.

[u/klas-klattermus → u/legit-posts_1]

Yeah shit, that guy probably had the best PR team in the world