[meep0l]

Why are his fans so rabid anyway? I noticed it several years ago, but they seem to have gotten significantly worse recently.

[smt88]

My uneducated guess is that it's a combination of:

- sense of community

- feeling like he (and by extension, his fans) know something that "experts" and "the mainstream" don't know

- existing car enthusiast culture that grafted onto Tesla and then onto Musk himself

- Tony Stark/Iron Man myth that people started to project onto him

- bots