Most of his cult pre-twitter consisted of sci-fi nerds who had a poor understanding of human nature and a poor understanding of the sciences involved in their fantasies, it's a soft delusion of sorts fantasizing about star trek, star wars, futuristic video games, futuristic animes, futuristic movies and shows, and so on, and wanting it to be real soooooo bad that when a rich guy comes along and makes a bunch of outlandish promises and claims based on those fantasies, telling people they can live on a mars colony within x years and so on, they believe it because they desperately want to believe it, they see the tesla cars as a gateway into making it all possible, getting the sci-fi movie experience in real life and in their lifetime, they were willing to overlook anything and turn a blind eye to anything and make all the excuses in the world just on the off chance that it could be real if only people like musk are supported, so now you got the ones who have a social excuse to cut their losses and jump ship because the msm now says abandoning musk and his work is a virtue signal, so now they can save face and never admit they were suckers but rather claim they altruistically sacrificed to take a stand against the.. evil twitter man, I guess, but there will still be some desperately clinging to the fantasy of some futuristic synthwave space utopia