“A considerable part of the #space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief when the thing you most enjoyed is now associated with other things that are irretrievably dark. We haven’t yet found a civilized way to discuss it, so we’re just distancing ourselves from the thing we enjoyed.”

https://spacenews.com/the-grief-of-a-fandom-on-starship-musk-and-losing-the-spark/