One explanation could be that these people have attached themselves so much to the MAGA right that accepting such evidence would shatter their worldview.

Can't wait to see deepfried Mel Gibson!

"You got a loicense for that???"

Next year it will be ten years since Harambe died.

For that audience they don't need to be funny, they have to be racist.

This was also around the time when the public perception about Musk was different. Reddit thought of him as a "real-life Tony Stark", who put a car in space and is a little eccentric. That perception about him peaked on August 2018 when he appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast. Around 2020 he started to go deeper into QAnon-esque rabbit-hole, turning into the despised far-right wacko he is today. Of course he has been always an opportunistic hack.

Well, if anon thinks he is too late at 30+ years, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Anti-science has gained too much traction in recent years, I doubt USA will survive if H5N1 starts spreading from human to human.

"Medical freedom", the rallying cry for all kinds of grifters spreading disinformation and wanting to roll back the progress made in public health.

American politicians blaming school shootings on anything other than easy access to guns (any%)

Well, you have to explore other languages. As Linus Torvalds once famously said:

There aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap.

Zucc gives an impression of an android-reptilian hybrid, but he handles PR a lot better. And this is because he doesn't spout every thought that runs in his head on social media without filter.