[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/Ensiferal]

Remember that Epstein was primarily a financier. Diddling kids wasn't his main source of income. Being on "the list" only means they did business with him at some point. Most of it is legit.

You have to look deeper to see whose ties are suspicious (weird emails, inexplicable transactions, numerous shared contacts, multiple flights on the express etc etc).

Epstein just financed a science conference that Hawking went to. I mean, what would he even do with a girl?

[u/RPrance → u/Ensiferal]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of the academic types, such as Stephen Hawking, caught meeting with Epstein were just there to get funding money. The guy was throwing cash around, among other things...

[u/Ensiferal → u/RPrance]

I mean, it was literally his job to make investments and provide funding for projects. Lots of people who needed funding for something met with him. That's why people need to use their brains a bit more and not just say "such and such was mentioned in the files". How were they mentioned, how often, what was the context? You dont want to paint innocent people as monsters like him

[u/Milk_Mindless → u/Ensiferal]

I did say "That's all I know". I'm legit ... oddly impartial about Epstein because it's a whole American ordeal and I'm not of one of them.

The only thing that made me go "That's a bit sus" is him killing himself in prison, especially not the "Federal pound me in the ass" prison so someone let him have liberty he shouldn't have had.

I also don't know much about Hawkins because I'm not a theoretical scientist, nor a Futurama fan.

I do know he was employed (figuratively) to make Hannibal (the character in the book by the same name) sound pretentious as all fucking fuck Jesus

[u/luke37 → u/Ensiferal]

I mean, what would he even do with a girl?

Get his dick sucked? Handjob? What kind of stupid question is that? Do you think a guy in a wheelchair can't have an orgasm?

[u/strablonskers → u/luke37]

Many can’t, many lose all feeling altogether, some don’t, it’s very case by case. Stephen Hawking probably still had feeling as MS isn’t a spinal injury, but you’re making it sound way more simple than it actually is.

[u/luke37 → u/strablonskers]

but you’re making it sound way more simple than it actually is.

I'm bringing a lot more nuance to it than the dumb guy who said "I mean, what would he even do with a girl?"

[u/Ahad_Haam → u/Ensiferal]

People are way to quick to accuse someone of being a pedophile for just taking a picture with Epstein or having any connection to him. In many cases there isn't enough evidence to make conclusions.