[LiKao]

Don't forget really bad jokes, such as making your product line spell out se*y and naming stuff after memes.

[matthewdgreen]

Bring back dorky middle-school sense of humor Musk. I’m fine with S*XY and fart mode and even flamethrowers. If you can find a history of Musk headlines through the years you see that almost everything before 2018 is just dorky engineer stuff and jokes, and then post-2018 it’s mean and destructive.

[jajko]

Does anybody know what happened around that time, ie some personal tragedy?

[tim333]

At the end of 2019 the TSLA stock price took off. Maybe it went to his head a little?

[s1artibartfast]

There was a pretty big epidemic of internet poisoning around that time that was followed immediately by COVID.

[matthewdgreen]

Other people noted a lot of things. Another is that he traveled to Shanghai to set up a gigafactory.

[askl]

> such as making your product line spell out se*y

Especially with exterior designs ranging between boring and ugly.

[mysterydip]

One time I took side views of each of them and scaled them all to the same size based on wheelbase. They're literally all the same design, just stretched. That's why they look so bad, in the same way a corvette would look bad stretched into an SUV.