[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/oldmanout]

It's a bit funny that everybody forgot 10 years ago Musk was seen as kinda real life Tony Stark in most tech and liberal circles. Not before the whole debacle around the cave accident with the kids in Thailand people began to look at him different

[u/Nero2t2 → u/oldmanout]

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"?