Redditors are a pretty ignorant bunch.

Ask them to name what in their opinion are the 10 most evil companies and they can easily do it, then ask them to name these companies CEOs or board of directors without looking it up and you’ll get nothing.

Reddit hates Elon Musk because they read his name is headlines daily, because he has a presence in pop culture, and because he communicates directly to the public via twitter. They unironically love his companies (or sometimes hate Tesla due to consuming a steady diet of FUD by its competitors) but have convinced themselves that Elon Musk, the owner, CEO, in some cases lead engineer of these companies had nothing to do with their success, that he’s nothing but a phoney, a literal Disney villain who has been failing upwards for 2 decades out of sheer dumb luck and capitalism fuelled dark magic.