It's such a shame. I see that happen to so many people, and it seems to all revolve around getting their fifteen minutes and then just refusing to accept when it's over. Also heavy correlation with "magical thinking"
My impression is he had major mental health stuff and sort of... emerged like this. I dunno. I see a lot of people saying he's not even funny, but he was easily the best thing in the old funny pages for about a decade. People are weird.
I think the fame does that to people. It's like the knowledge that drives people mad in Lovecraft stories. When you realise that the dimensions we know have other dimensions BETWEEN them, in the same place, and there are THINGS happening there. And then you are expected to leave.
But not always. Sinfest rolled along as a funny webcomic for years without the artist getting famous outside the webcomics niche, and then his sanity fell out and rolled away.
I think that's similar to your recent point about people saying Elon has never done anything impressive... If someone is a Sith you can't say anything good about them ever.
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Student: I dunno! Just wanna make an AI!
Me: Well…have you checked if there's a simpler way to do it?
Student: Why? I wanna make an AI!
Me: Well is there an EXISTING AI that does it?
Student: …I wanna make an AI