This CNN article seems to think so.
Certainly not by my definition.
Elon Musk is one of the least cool people to ever live. He spends a significant amount of his time trying to appear cool to teenage nazis on the internet. He’s unfunny, desperate, and cringe.
And this is including that he’s involved with some of the coolest things happening in the world. SpaceX is legitimately cool. How much of a fucking drug-addled weirdo do you have to be so that this doesn’t offset it?
Even prior to his politics nonsense, Musk always struck me as a dork. Didn’t he try to joke about it on his SNL appearance? And, in this current day, between stuff like his hopping around on stage next to Trump like a sugared-up kid or lying about his video game accomplishments, he feels like a weird try-hard. His attempts at internet humor are just… sad.
That said, a large following of Musk acolytes think he’s the coolest so we obviously ain’t looking for the same things.
Yeah, no kidding. Pays people to play video games for him so he can brag about it. That’s so incredible uncool.
Elon Musk is the smartest, hippest, swellest, most sauve dude I’ve known in my life. Now excuse me; I have a sudden desire to play game of solitaire.
Only poor people spend time actually playing video games in order to master them. A cool, rich billionaire like Musk pays others to do that fore him so he can spend his time doing more important things to do like DMing random women that he’s never met to ask them if they’ll bear children for him.
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He’d be pretty cool if he kept up the real-life Tony Stark thing by shooting rockets into space and reinventing the automobile, but being kind of down to Earth about it. He didn’t do that though.
Does anybody here think that there is real substance to this ‘study’ by a marketing company?
Define cool with a sciencey report? This is like the dude at a party that instead of returning a quip, delivers an analysis of the joke you just made, just in case you didn’t get it.
I assumed it was funded by a subsidiary of SpaceX
Okay that made me laugh.
He wants to be one of the cool kids,
Don’t fly.
Ick.
If being “cool” results in more easily garnering a crowd of fans, you can sure see why a marketing company would try to find out what’s in the secret sauce. So they could bottle and sell it.
Deciding that Musk is cool? Maybe 20-30 years ago. Maybe. Or at least his public persona then was cool, whatever the actual private reality.
From the article:
But the formula for being “cool” was having the six character traits – more extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous – no matter the person’s age, gender or education level.
I’m not sure I agree with that anyway. I think of “cool” as having a certain style, grace and self-assurance. Being rich and extroverted helps those things (it’s easier to have style and a devil-may-care attitude if you’re rich) but they’re not required and being rich & extroverted is no guarantee that you can reflect style, grace and self-assurance.
Musk has no personal style worth noting. Nothing he’s pulling off in my opinion, anyway – he’s not exactly making his clothes and presentation “work”. He lacks any sort of grace or smoothness. And he’s desperate for attention and praise. He’s pretty much the diametric opposite of what I see as “cool”.
I don’t agree with grace. Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t graceful, neither is Indiana Jones, but they’re both cool. I think self assurance is the big one. So much of what Musk does is screaming “please like me, I’m doing the meme. We all like memes and that means you like me too, right?”
I think we’re mentally defining “grace” differently. I think of it as how well you fit into your style versus looking like a poser wearing clothes picked out of a “Best Looks” magazine. Indiana Jones has a grace to him. Probably less so with Arnie but I think of his characters as more “cool” in terms of spectacle than “cool” as a person. I don’t have a strong opinion of Schwarzenegger as a person.
Is Elon cool? Dear god NO.
Oh, I don’t know, I think “off-putting buffoon” is a style.
Musk has as much coolness as money can buy.
Unfortunately for him, that amount is zero.
Pretty much everyone looks stupid in a Halloween costume.
Until last week I worked at an office for Economical Security, less federal money also means less money for State programs…
I’m hoping to get a new job soon, but in the meantime… You are not cool at all Space Karen. At least he is finding out that Trump did use even billionaires that thought that they were using him.