Speak for yourself. I pay for Blue and I'm not embarrassed about it. I would rather pay for a service that I like and see fewer ads; maybe someday there will be an option to get rid of all the ads?
I mean you don't see all the Tesla owners giving up their cars. And a decent percentage of Tesla buyers were definitely Elon fanboys. One of the nice parts of Elon's recent adventures is that my friends with Tesla share far fewer Elon posts.
But some people bought and buy a Tesla because they just like the car and it has nothing to do with Musk. That's perfectly fine (and I think it's fine to be a fanboy too, who cares).
Elon Musk is a complex person, like any other human being. Many of his achievements are fantastic and I cheer them on appropriately. When I think he gets something wrong, I don't hesitate to say so.
Allow me to illustrate with an example from a week ago. I wrote this in reply to Elon's tweet about "life imprisonment for sterilizing children" (I'm trans, and very open about it since starting my transition six months ago):
"Should I have gone to prison for life when I was 12 and I tried to sterilize myself with a rubber band? I suffered terribly for three decades because of the testosterone puberty I went through and never wanted."
I try my best to use Twitter to support other trans women. My DMs are open in order to make myself more available, especially to people that are afraid to transition and/or mired in circumstances that make it difficult to do so (such as living in a red state and/or with an unsupportive home environment.)
I have also spent the past several months supporting and amplifying communists, socialists and anarchists on Twitter whenever possible, even though my own personal viewpoint differs somewhat from each of those groups. I do this because I think everyone brings something to the table, and the continued marginalization of the true left in the United States is very dangerous as we enter this new period of war and economic instability.
Let me know which one of us should be embarrassed.
The "badge of shame" effect was so immediate and over prevalent - and still is today - that Elon rush ordered a feature to let users hide it.