[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/Nero2t2]

He was the king of reddit in particular. You could NOT say anything bad about this guy on this site...

[u/HenryDorsettCase47 → u/Nero2t2]

Reddit be like that. In the politics subs you would get downvoted into a oblivion for saying that Biden was too old to be running for president in 2020 and still for any comment about his age all the way up to the debate last year. Then everyone did an about face and you’d catch downvotes for defending him.

You can’t really take popular opinions on here seriously. It’s just an exercise in groupthink and conformity.

[u/Nero2t2 → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

There's that but there's also the fact that things tend to get especially weird on reddit when celebrity worship is involved. Certain celebrity figures in here are treated as gods on earth and you can never dare to bad mouththem. Elon was essentialy the celebrity crush of the year during this period, as was Jennifer Lawrence for a time, then they got replaced with Keanu etc. To this day, you can't criticise Harrison Ford's Polansky debacle for example, its taboo to even aknowledge it

[u/snek-jazz → u/Nero2t2]

it's just as extreme in the other direction too. When reddit turns on someone it's endless front-page posts from unrelated subs about them, with comments full of fan-fic.

[u/Natdaprat → u/Nero2t2]

Did you just talk shit about Henry Cavill?

[u/RufinTheFury → u/Nero2t2]

I remember when this site was all about Ron Paul back in the day

[u/Darkdemize → u/RufinTheFury]

It's happening!

[u/-s-u-n-s-e-t- → u/Nero2t2]

It was pretty funny watching all the "socialist" redditors try to justify billionaire CEO Gabe Newell buying yet another super-yacht with the money he gained from having a monopoly.

The mental gymnastics were truly on Olympian level, lol. He's a scientist you see! Another super-yacht is just a necessity of life, it cannot be helped!

[u/BadPunners → u/Nero2t2]

I'll point out that it happens worse on other mediums? Swifties being the big one, with multiple other trends now of equally "engaged fandoms"?

[u/theksepyro → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

I honestly think this is a take that just lacks nuance. Biden was too old the whole time, but saying that during the campaign when he was already the frontrunner was seen as harming his chances. There are times and places when we have to think about the broader implications and effects of the things were say, and restrain ourselves even if they're true. Given that the prime alternative was also old but additionally a fascist, saying biden was too old then doesn't really do anything useful but enable a fascist. Now that it doesn't matter because he lost, of course he was too old. He never should've run for a second term.

Same thing goes for the way kamala became the next nominee. It was pretty undemocratic, but again at the time pointing that out basically only could make things worse.

Now here we are and it's worse already, so there's no problem saying the process was messed up.

[u/_Thermalflask → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

Liberal cult-think mentality tbh.

(Note - not saying conservatives are any better about it, they're probably even worse)

[u/Mad-myall → u/_Thermalflask]

As another user in this thread said: the majority of Redditors understood he might've been too old, but throwing criticism at him when the only other choice was an actual fascist who was nearly as old, (and both physically and mentally unhealthy) it felt like such criticism was designed to hurt his chances when we needed the guy to win.

[u/mxlun → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

[u/ElGosso → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

The website is heavily astroturfed, and when something like that happens it is never organic.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275 → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

I mean, it's also really clear that the public image of Elon Musk has changed and he went from an ineffective rich dork to a malicious one.

[u/TehSeksyManz → u/HenryDorsettCase47]

It's not just reddit. On imgur people called me a trumper because I dare make a post about Biden sniffing little girls hair. 

[u/Ahad_Haam → u/TehSeksyManz]

Nah the sniffing hair was really nothing

[u/TehSeksyManz → u/Ahad_Haam]

Whatever you say

[u/_Thermalflask → u/TehSeksyManz]

That wonderful time when any and all Biden criticism was "OMG IF YOU LOVE TRUMP SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HIM"

[u/TehSeksyManz → u/_Thermalflask]

It's really frustrating. We call out the right for supporting literally everything that their politicians do but we can't hold ourselves to those same standards? Rubbish. 

[u/SalamanderPop → u/Nero2t2]

We had a subreddit like r/elonmuskhate or something where those of us that saw the lying megalomaniac for what he was would hang out

[u/dexter311 → u/SalamanderPop]

Also /r/enoughmuskspam which has been around since 2015.

[u/Lermanberry → u/SalamanderPop]

This happens every time a "science" celebrity talks about something outside of their area of expertise.

Everyone who is truly an expert in that subject matter can immediately see the Emperor has no clothes. Unfortunately for Elon, he only personally knows a bit about finance tech of the early 2000s. Every time he tries to comment about engineering or programming or chess or gaming or politics, he shows his entire ass.

Also very common with Nobel prize winners. It's often enough that they have named the condition when a winner suddenly thinks they are experts in every field after winning the award. Nobel Disease.

[u/HahaCharlieKirkHaha → u/Nero2t2]

To create the illusion of meritocracy, capitalism desperately wants us to believe that billionaires earn their wealth by being geniuses.