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A Tesla influencer randomly caught his odometer double-counting mileage on video. Wild.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

influencer

We need to call them what they are; shills.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah I used to think that all these Tesla fan channels on YouTube and Instagram were because the brand was seen as somehow special and exciting, like Apple used to be under Steve Jobs. But now I've come to the conclusion that most of them are being paid under the table and not declaring it, because their collective reactions to the past year or more of insanity just don't pass the sniff test.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Seriously. This dude is delusional.

The law firm going after Tesla for this offered to represent him via a class action, and this idiot has the gall to ask the law firm for payment?

The world would be better off if his Tesla self-drove itself into a wall. Ideally with him inside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Insanity hey. Goes to show you can very easily be wealthy but not smart.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago

Can't argue with that XD

His main deal is that he does Tesla stuff. His website is "Tesla Pittsburgh," so yeah, he's a Tesla guy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Pathetic losers. And, even "Nazis" if they're still in the Tesla community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Pathetic losers. And, even “Nazis” if they’re still in the Tesla community.

I see you go all over Lemmy electric media systems communicating in Twitter-length reactions, behaving like Elon Musk X media platform users (and Elon Musk himself) and Donald Trump on social machines like Twitter and Truth Social.