Cybertruck brings the haters...

[mcm4ss]

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If you have issues in Bend I can't imagine ever driving in Eugene, now that's a town of haters.

uggg, if I go there I will let you know.

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[GatorCyber]

A couple of weeks ago I was coming out of a store and saw a 50-year-old woman checking out my Cybertruck. I said "pretty radical truck, huh?". She said "It's certainly different..... but why do you call it a truck, I mean, what makes it a truck?" I was standing right by the rear corner so I silently reached up and pushed the button. The tonneau made it's beautiful "clickity-clack, clickety clack" metal sound as I pushed the button to drop the tailgate and I looked up to see an expression of astonishment. I think she felt a little foolish too as she said, "wow, it's so big". I just looked at her and said, "Yes, it is." She still looked like she was in shock so I broke the ice by explaining some of the other features and she was saying things like, "I had no idea anything like this existed" and "wow".



I've been educating my family and friends over the years about the biased reporting and fake media narratives surrounding Tesla and EVs, and most are starting to get it. Most people find it so unbelievable that things like that are going on. I tell them it's like an intelligence test. You can tell how discerning and smart someone is by how much they buy into false media narratives. You have to be pretty low intelligence to not see how strong the anti-Tesla bias is in the media when the articles are loaded with hot-button disparaging words and negativity. They are usually astonished to learn that for the first time in decades an American automaker, Tesla, took back the title of "Best-selling Car in the World" in 2023 but the reason they don't know that is because the media didn't tell them, they withheld it. Then I mention they have probably heard that EVs are not selling very well but that the best selling car in the world is not a gas car, it's an EV. That usually drives home my point pretty well.

not everything is a conspiracy. Maybe the reporters are also ill-informed and just writing to pay the bills.

 

[Firepower2010]

Oh the hate is REAL. Been getting cyber jumped by haters on Instagram. Eh, ignore..

 

[BeFamousVideo]

not everything is a conspiracy. Maybe the reporters are also ill-informed and just writing to pay the bills.

Imagine if your job meant you wake up in the morning and try to figure out what to write about? You would already know good news doesn't sell well. Regurgitating other bad news stories is the easy way. There is lots of money available to "journalists" (used loosely) to write negatively about Tesla. If Tesla spent piles of cash on advertising the public, I wonder how many more cars they would sell. Few people realize the plethora of unique features in Teslas. And the Cybertruck is THE engineering marvel other car company engineers only dream about producing.

 

[HaulingAss]

not everything is a conspiracy. Maybe the reporters are also ill-informed and just writing to pay the bills.

No, the media is not ill-informed, at least not so severely as to explain the things they do and don't write, I've been studying the media reporting on Tesla for years and they are actively trying to slow down adoption of electric cars. We have stories of YouTubers being paid to throw shade on Tesla too. It most certainly is a broad range of conspiracies to protect billions in profits.

I feel sorry for anyone too dismissive to see it. It goes far beyond clicks, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[CyberTW]

No, the media is not ill-informed, at least not so severely as to explain the things they do and don't write, I've been studying the media reporting on Tesla for years and they are actively trying to slow down adoption of electric cars. We have stories of YouTubers being paid to throw shade on Tesla too. It most certainly is a broad range of conspiracies to protect billions in profits.

I feel sorry for anyone too dismissive to see it. It goes far beyond clicks, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Yup. Very simple. Follow the money. Journos make little compared to say a contractor… so who pays them? Probably people that Tesla/elon disrupt.. this isn’t even conspiracy thinking

 

[GatorCyber]

Is anyone having issues with neighbors? I'm likely going to have to park in the driveway and am next to the community pool, so I'm hoping it doesn't end up being a circus on my sidewalk.

 

[CyberGus]

Is anyone having issues with neighbors? I'm likely going to have to park in the driveway and am next to the community pool, so I'm hoping it doesn't end up being a circus on my sidewalk.

Every day I find tiny little handprints all over the tailgate

 

[BillSirloin]

Yea one of my posts talking about my delivery experience ended up on that subreddit. Tried defending myself there and it did not end well. Those clowns spend so much time and energy talking crap about us, it’s hilarious. Just ignore all of them. As long as you enjoy what you have, that’s all that matters. We can never change those people’s minds.

 

[CyberTW]

Yea one of my posts talking about my delivery experience ended up on the subreddit. Tried defending myself there and it did not end well. Those clowns spend so much time and energy talking crap about us, it’s hilarious. Just ignore all of them. As long as you enjoy what you have, that’s all that matters. We can never change those people’s minds.

Reddit…. That place is one of the worst of the whole internet

 

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[FlipSixThreeHole]

You can tell when they can only recite clickbait title headlines and have no actual facts to back it up.

 

[Crissa]

I would never ask someone how much they paid for there car.

Why not?

It's something you can google in 1 minute.

Sure, if you know the keywords.

Now when people ask I say less than a Ford Raptor.

That's a good answer, but I can't google the price of a Ford Raptor, as their prices are a random range messed with by dealers... so doesn't that answer your question about why people think they can't google the price of a Cybertruck?

-Crissa

 

[CYBER CHESKO]

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.

wish I was there in that moment to hear it all. the hate is real and I love it lol

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