Cybertruck brings the haters...

[frankiestein_ii]

Seems like ever since I got my Cybertruck, a lot of my acquaintances suddenly have become experts about the Cybertruck. One specific friend keeps showing me threads from a subreddit called Cyberstuck and at first I asked why was he so interested in these posts when he doesn't own a Cybertruck. Then he continues to show me different posts from that thread. Now I just put a laughing emote at everything he shares. At first I didn't care but now its starting to get annoying. It's my first time owning an EV and this attention is crazy. Anyone have a similar experience like this?

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[Loudness]

That's garden-variety jealousy. I wouldn't call that person a friend, they are obviously trying to bring you down to make themselves feel better.

 

[Deleted member 17810]

Seems like ever since I got my Cybertruck, a lot of my acquaintances suddenly have become experts about the Cybertruck. One specific friend keeps showing me threads from a subreddit called Cyberstuck and at first I asked why was he so interested in these posts when he doesn't own a Cybertruck. Then he continues to show me different posts from that thread. Now I just put a laughing emote at everything he shares. At first I didn't care but now its starting to get annoying. It's my first time owning an EV and this attention is crazy. Anyone have a similar experience like this?

I'm pretty sure that subreddit is run by pre teens.

 

[RayzorBEV]

Yes. Every freaken day someone would show me or tell me something negative about my Cyberbeast and 99.5% of the time, they own ICE and do not own EVs. 70% of these stories were just MSU by some social media influencer wanna-b, another 25% are stories taken out of context, that leave 5% that maybe news worthy. Call them haters, FUDsters, sour grapes. I just tell them "Don't be a hater, or you're just jealous and then I'll finish them off by suggesting "I heard gas price went up again, don't forget to lineup early at Sams Club gas station!" "Remember to be patient, you'll get your turn, eventually..." Then exit the area...?

 

[CyberGus]

Every time I take out the DeLorean, a stranger will approach and say “Hey did you know the true fact that [insert completely false information here]”

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[Outdoors]

Yeah I have this problem. I just start speaking a foreign language of choice. Even to friends. They get the idea now. Really limits the conversation when one speaks of watts and amps in foreign tongues.

 

[Macgreiner]

It is not just cybertruck, anything EV seems to bring out the Eddie-the-experts. Also, this kind of thing seldom happened when pre-Twitter takeover. The Elon tax is real.

 

[tingmo13]

make sure don't let those kind of delusional human beings drag you into their weirdo world-just chill & enjoy!

 

[ChiTownCT]

I dont dwell on it too much to be honest, if someone says anything negative I usually throw a one liner at em.. Different strokes for different folks..

90% of my interactions have been positive, people just being intrigued.

 

[ÆCIII]

When I first got my Model 3, I had a neighbor asking questions, but obviously from a negative bias. I simply told them to go and test drive one, but they quickly insisted they don't need to, because they get all the information they need to know from 'reviews'. So, I told them, "If you're too afraid to go test drive one and evaluate it for yourself honestly, then I can't help you..." Of course they became irritated and the conversation ended.

I look at it this way - Teslas often separate free-thinkers from sheep. If someone is insistent on echoing narratives instead of doing research for themselves, then I'll just let them keep wasting money on inferior vehicles.

Some 'haters' are really just miserable people who have resurgences of doubt - because they know they've not done their own research, and have been following the MSM or peer narratives like sheep - and suddenly they're always second-guessing themselves because their approach always depends on what's fed to them. Then they'll fibrillate back and forth between narrative hype and insecure doubt. So they have to come around and ask pointed questions in an effort to try and re-convince themselves. Such a vicious lame cycle of insecurity.

Plenty of smart people will buy Teslas, but some types of lame sheep will be the last to realize they've wasted tons of money three or more years down the road. I'm fine with that, because if they're too close-minded and narrative-dependent to engage in sharing of something better, then that's their loss.

- ÆCIII

 

[CTofLosGatos]

My approach to haters... “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” They want to drag you in conversation with stupid arguments. I shrug them off as naive, envious etc. However do engage curious folks with are genuinely intrigues... and we have met many of them.

 

[TheLastStarfighter]

I've loved cars my whole life, and as I grew up I gained interest in how they work. With that you compare specs - HP, handling, engine size, fuel economy, reliability, styling, tech, etc. With that you typically become at least a little bit of a "fan" of a brand or a few brands. You become a fan because you have evaluated these qualities and decided one car does it best. Then, all of a sudden Tesla launched the Model S and pretty much everything was moot. It broke the consumer reports scale. Faster, better, safer, no gas at all. The idea of this, that the info you devoted your time to reading over again and again - that it was now irrelevant - is jarring. My initial emotional response to that was disbelief, that there's no way an S can smoke a Hellcat. Gotta be a catch. The batteries die or catch fire. Doesn't work in winter. Eventually the engineer in my brain took over and I started to learn about EV's and once you get it, you realize combustion engines are dumb when you have an alternative. Then you find peace and let go of your previous fan obsessions.

Now the truck world is being exposed to the Model S effect. It doesn't help that the styling is jarring too. I've read a lot of the negative comments and most of them seem to be mostly that it's disrupting to their feelings. There's a few other factors that people mention (lefties hating Elon pushing free speech and capitalism, righties hating EV incentives and mandates), as well as basic jealousy of someone buying a vehicle they can't afford. But mostly I think it's just fear of something new that they don't understand. If you're gonna buy something on the bleeding edge, you gotta be ready for that. There's a vehicle spotters group in my area and Lambos get mocked regularly for taste and jealousy reasons but the first CT showed up the other day and wow, the hate was honestly hilarious. Record comments on that one, with the poster simply calling it "The Truck". I love it.

 

[Treynor]

My hater story:

I pulled up to the grocery store. Karen briskly walks up and first thing she said “ how much did you pay for THAT”? Dissatisfied inflection on THAT.

Turns out she was the service manager for the local FORD dealership. She complained that FORD made her install “$300,000.00” of EV upgrades to her dealership parking lot for “those stupid things”

 

[igs]

lol reddit is the leftist armpit of the internet

 

[lowtek]

lol reddit is the leftist armpit of the internet

The internet is the armpit of the internet.

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