Not really. He started to go noticeably off the rails around the summer of 2018, but it probably wasn’t particularly notable unless you followed him closely - so maybe one could claim they shouldn’t have doubled down with the season 2 reference, but that episode may have been pretty far along by then.
He had always had a reputation in inside circles for being thin-skinned and prone to vindictive outbursts on Twitter and elsewhere, but when it really became well-known to the public at-large was during the Thai Cave Rescue in July 2018 when one of the British rescuers called Musk's well-intentioned but woefully misguided attempt to have his engineers crash-build a mini-sub and ship it there (that wouldn't have worked in the cramped, twisted confines of some sections of the cave, where small men with breathing apparatus and even some of the children had difficulty fitting through) a "publicity stunt" that wouldn't have worked.
Yeah. 22nd century humans probably found the only copy of Time Magazine that survived the atomic holocaust and decided the 2021 Person of the Year must have been a pretty swell guy.
Was he really Person of the Year?
Yeah, but Time's Person of the Year is as much about who was most influential or newsworthy in a given year, good or bad, than purely beneficial (though they do that too), and who can sell the most magazines and generate the most clicks online based on either interest or outrage at the choice.
For good reason.
