Elon Musk could have gone to the history books as the brilliant entrepreneur that started the electric car revolution and who made the starlink system that connects places fiberoptics can't reach.
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JK Rowling. Everyone used to have a very favourable opinion of her. I remember when the media would worship every tweet she made, as though she brought about world peace. Then she became obsessively transphobic and now that's all people think of when they think of her as a person. At first, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought it might be a misunderstanding. But then she went out of her way to make sure everybody knows how transphobic she is. It's become her whole personality. Even Elon Musk, whose own child stopped talking to him because of his transphobia, told Rowling to knock it off because she was harping on transgender issues too much.
Ha ha yes, I thought maybe it was overwrought reporting, so I looked into what she was actually saying, and omg it was so much worse. She didn't just double down, she tripled-downed, with extra sprinkles. Horrible, horrible person.
Rudy Giuliani was known for taking down the mob before being dubbed "America's Mayor." Now he works for the mob.
He only took down the mob by working with the Russian underworld, so it was all a ruse that didn't really make NYC safer.
If it wasn't for his media handling of 9/11, he would have been completely irrelevant in the years that followed.
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Bill Cosby.
Definitely Cosby. Once a titan, now unspoken.
This year, he was ordered to pay 19mil in damages, liable for another drugging and SA case.
Seems the UK is going through their own Cosby moment right now with the David Walliams allegations
Walliams has been openly a creep for a long time, whether it was confirmed criminal or not. I don't think it's the same. There's just a line of behaviour somewhere where buying books for your kid from a creep crosses from acceptable to unacceptable.
People had been accusing Cosby as early as the 80s about assaults that happened as early as the 60s. Similar to how UK comedians joked openly about Walliams being a creep long before the allegations ever became public, the allegations against Cosby became public after the comedian Hannibal Buress joked about it on stage. It's not a 1 to 1 comparison by any means, but there are a lot of parallels in how the situations are playing out.
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I'd nominate Elon Musk. All that motherfucker had to do was nothing but make mediocre electric cars and he'd have had a celebrated place in history. Sure, he was always a ridiculous asshole, but relatively few people looked that closely. Now he's throwing out Nazi salutes and making a public shame of himself. The political right despises electric cars and hence Musk, but Nazis gonna Nazi.
Yeah, he was quite popular right up until a diver rescued some Thai kids (while Musk tried the same in a submarine that didn't fit in the cave), and Elon's mature, grown up response was to call him a paedophile.
The mask fell off that day and he was unable or unwilling to put it back on.
I think it’s inevitable, his “good reputation” was just by being less well known. Lots of people are like that, they seem ok or even good, until you get to know them better
Yea, he somehow even got on good terms with the younger generation right about that time when he was guest on pewdiepies channel. Something Mark Zuckerberg so desperately tries to achieve.
Surprised no one has mentioned Neil Gaiman yet.
He's wisely stayed out of the spotlight (I think he's only popped up once or twice to weakly whine about being misunderstood) so everybody's moved on. Consequently there are still loads of people who haven't heard. I prefer not to think about him as well.
he was canceled almost overnight, when the allegations came out. after sandman season 1.
taylor swift, she has been seen hanging out with maga more and more, as she comfortable being a billionaire, and her recent music releases has been very bland as of late, who knows when the fans will turn on her.
Sorbo, couldve stuck with his shows, if he handt gone to a chiro to get a stroke from and then holding a grudge on Xena for like 20+years, plus he had his own show which he controlled, but still screws it up.
Elon musk. I used to think he was smart. Damn, how wrong I was.
I do think he had at least some empathy in the early days. The money destroyed that part of his brain though and he's carttonishly evil now.
That's putting it lightly
To be entirely fair, I'm not sure he had the best shot at having empathy, his whole family benefited from the apartheid in south Africa.
Oh yeah. He's absolute scum. There's a Trumpian list I could write but why? The mother fucker threw a Nazi salute. He 100% knew what he was doing.
Adolf Hitler. Could have just lived a quiet life as a successful veteran and modest painter. But he just had to go on Hittling.
Yeah but we never would have heard of him if he didn't go and commit genocide
Ed Sheeran
Jimmy Savile. I don’t want to hear any other suggestions where they havent fucked hundreds of children and corpses. That is now the barrier for entry in this contest.
Nominating Savile is basically cheating.
Ellen DeGeneres, also Nixon, O.J. & Weinstein.
John Lasseter. He’s the reason why Pixar/disney had such strong story telling the years he was active. And then it turned out he was a perv. Sooooo disappointing.
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Dave Chappell. Should've just shut the fuck up about his transphobia. He also seems like an out of touch rich asshole.
he went opposite of a good legacy, no way was he neutral since his punching up was always political.
Chomsky, Gates, Steve Jobs, Tim Apple, the Democratic party
Big uff for Chomsky...
Chomsky hit me hard
Allow me to introduce Michael Parenti!
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjob0rkb9-tZlCvHAKse_HtF6
funny how jobs was killed by his owned hubris. feel like political parties shouldnt be part of legacy
Ethan Klein, he was really well liked by the internet at large when he was just a silly little guy posting videos. Now hes a beligerant doofus, sex pest, and genocide advocate
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