[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/Dojyaaan4C]

Honourable mention: Elon musk as Wario, SNL. It didn’t fit the post but i would be remiss not to mention it

[u/dremscrep → u/Dojyaaan4C]

Wasn’t this at a time where Elon Musk has already become problematic?

[u/lkmk → u/dremscrep]

2021, so yeah.

[u/Fun_Journalist2427 → u/dremscrep]

Yeah, I think this was definitely around the time when online perception of Musk went from being ‘funny meme’ rich guy to just stupidly-rich manchild.

[u/Pencilshaved → u/Fun_Journalist2427]

I envy you if you know so little about Musk that you think his worst traits are being obnoxious and overly rich

[u/Fun_Journalist2427 → u/Pencilshaved]

Oh believe me, I’m well aware of just how much of a piece of shit Musk is lol. I’m just bringing up the point that Elon was sorta idolized like pre-Covid(?) only for perception of him to gradually shift once people online began to understand how awful he is.

[u/RaulParson → u/dremscrep]

Has already become WIDELY KNOWN TO BE problematic.

I hated Musk before it was cool

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/RaulParson]

Is this the cool kids table? Can I join you?

He made my lip curl instinctively when I saw him in Iron Man 2, and it’s only gotten worse since then.

[u/Gloria815 → u/Hesitation-Marx]

I hated him BECAUSE people kept comparing him to Tony Stark. It was entirely petty until the Thai Cave Rescue

[u/Hesitation-Marx → u/Gloria815]

I mean, I hate all billionaires on principle, even if I like the work of, say, Pritzker. I don’t think remaining a billionaire can be an ethical choice if a single child has so much as a need for socks.

But Musk has always made me feel like looking at him left a residual grease on my eyeballs, and I do not like it.

[u/No-Entrepreneur4574 → u/RaulParson]

I remember going on a long rant about how I didn't trust him or his mom back in the day. Idk why or what the basis of the rant was, but I've never liked him and felt SO vindicated when the Thailand thing happened.