Why would he change to hanging with the cool bullying kids picking on the (rich) nerd who wants to go to Mars and have us all driving electric vehicles. It's a good example of how the internet breaks good people.

> That's why habitual bullshitters like Elon Musk hate shorts. Musk leads a cult of credulous worshippers who buy whatever he's selling. Shorts make bets that Musk's cultists will get deprogrammed. Musk uses this to sharpen his cultists' resolve: "they want us to fail!"

An alternate explanation of Elon Musks position might be the ongoing day in, day out attacks from Short Sellers on Twitter ($TSLAQ), Reddit, HN of his products to devalue them.

It's not just pointing out flaws. It's information warfare. They will and do lie.