Video: Cybertrucks Show Up to Mardi Gras Parade… And Are Pelted with Trash and Booed - FuelArc News
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Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]

Like the lady says, “I love New Orleans.”

But seriously… The Big Easy is about as friendly a crowd as you can expect. They don’t boo anybody. If you’re pissing off New Orleans, you need a long hard look in the mirror and probably to take some corrective action.

It’s sort of amazing to see the visceral, negative reaction that just crowds of randos have to seeing one specific model of ugly truck.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 days ago

    Has Tesla’s brand image really collapsed this much that just seeing a Cybertruck turns a friendly crowd that angry? Six months ago, Tesla was still a symbol of innovation.

    If you knew nothing about Tesla, sure. Anyone who knew anything about the company knew their autopilot accident reports were fraudulent, their technology was inferior to their competitors because they didn’t use Lidar, and their CEO was a charlatan who knew almost nothing about science, engineering, or coding. The fact that Telsa, the Boring Company, and SpaceX didn’t collapse in 2021 when the Vegas Hyperloop was revealed to be a poorly designed tunnel is proof that most investors are idiots who can’t tell when they’re being scammed.