Being irrelevant and being hated/laughed at are the same thing essentially.
Meaning they are both something else compared to the desired outcome: being loved and respected.
When you are in a super-optimal and franly desirable situation you are never just a passerby and thus you are never irrelevant.
Jennifer Lawrance, for example is never classified as a passerby and thus she's never irrelevant.
In response to your earlier comment, say the orfer of preference is the follwing:
1) Being loved and cheered by a crowd
2) Being ignored by a crowd
3) Being hated and actively threatened by a crowd.
Irrlevancy might be at no.2 , but it's notorious that second place is the last place
Being irrelevant and being hated/laughed at are the same thing essentially.
Meaning they are both something else compared to the desired outcome: being loved and respected.