[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.