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In 2017 when I got my dev job, one of the interview questions were about who's your idol. One of the most approved answers was "Elon Musk". It's actually kind of amazing to see how hard his popularity fell since then.
Seeing him mentioned in 2010-2020 media as an enlightened soul who will bring Humanity to Space is so cringe now.
He's in an episode of Rick and Morty. Granted, Rick makes jabs at Elon so it ages a bit better than most others.
In Russia they would say "how do you like that, Elon Musk?" as a mockery of something technical made in a really clumsy way. Without the mocking intonation it would mean that the thing should impress Elon Musk. Meaning Elon Musk had something resembling a cult of personality, a bit like Steve Jobs (interesting how these cults never form around people really comparable to bloody Columbus, say, Unix fathers, Bill Joy, Fabrice Bellard).