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 […]
Maybe I should have taken my Opel Vectra to the parade, because why the hell not? /s
In other words, what the hell does simply “a car” do at a parade anyway?
It reeks advertising and bad taste.There is a separate car and truck parade at NoLa’s Carnival, where you roll up with whatever and parade in that. These folks… well, I’m not sure why they didn’t just go to the truck parade.
I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.
For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.
They were buttoned up tight as a tank, no throws whatsoever.
And I’m one of those frozen northlanders, too, I only been to the Big Easy once and even I know you bring the free goodies!!!
Maybe because the Cybertruck is not a car because it’s supposed to be a truck, but it’s not a proper truck either.
It’s a killer monstrosity that can propel 3½ ton of metal from zero to sixty in a few seconds.but not up a hill
And not whilst towing anything heavy and having the frame remain in one piece
Oh? I hadn’t heard about this one
Lol yep. It’s because they made the frame out of aluminum. Every - and I do mean every - other proper pickup truck has a steel frame.
But a steel frame would make it even slower up hills lol
At least you don’t need to worry about hills in New Orleans.
Is this some reference I’m not aware of?
cybertrucks can’t get up hills. they’re slower uphill than laden semis
OK, that’s weird? But let me guess…
Is it because of some sort of design flaw?
Or maybe tires that were chosen to extend range instead of actually working?
Oh and of course the fact that it’s so heavy.it’s the weight and the motor. they weigh more than any other light duty truck on the market by a wide margin and the motor lacks the torque to make up the difference. to increase the torque you would need to make the vehicle more of a fire hazard than it already is.
all of this constitutes an extremely core design flaw which is that no one asked “what is a truck?” when they designed their truck. they never asked what the purpose of the vehicle should be, instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him
Just you don’t miss it, the frame is also worthless and towing is a bad idea. The tow ball isn’t even attached directly to the frame, it’s wild.
Realistically it’s not even that—there are plenty of fast/powerful vehicles that aren’t universally hated.
It’s seriously just Musk.
…And maybe a little bit of how ugly they are. lol
Probably because the truck folks hate them.
Video at Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gnpq2e64t5iwi5w2jnumolac/post/3ljjai4tzys25?
Thanks! That’s a better video, I like that. I got to get on Bluesky.
First video I found was on Facebook, and that was a hot mess to link to.
Just a reminder for anyone not in the know:
While Bluesky is better than Xitter right now, don’t forget that it’s still a centralized service that has censored - and will continue to censor - content they disagree with. Bluesky Relay servers costs so much to run that it’s only financially feasible for big corporations to run them. This forces centralization, although technically can be decentralized, and puts it’s end users onto the same path of enshittification that Xitter and other social networks have gone through.
Mastodon, while imperfect, is actually decentralized (including DM’s - all Bluesky DMs are centralized amd can be viewed by its admins) and cannot suffer this type of censorship.
At least it let me watch the video without logging in to anything, the reddit and facebook links in the OP article didn’t
You need to log in to view Reddit videos? SHIT. I did not realize that.
Give me a minute, I’ll swap that out, now I feel like a dick, I thought Reddit was just an easy way to host videos.
Arghhh, that actually really jams me up, I link a TON of Reddit videos in my articles, didn’t think to check while not logged into Reddit. Welcome to the future, where every piece of technology fucking blows.
Reddit doesn’t always require login for video. The one you linked gives a message about it being mature content and directs people to the app. I find that message odd because it’s not marked as nsfw and visiting on old.reddit doesn’t give an age prompt and plays just fine.
You can still view videos without logging in through Redlib, but only without sound because… beats me, because reddit blows.
Then it was cheered at, for some reason. Probably because the dumb thing was leaving their presence.
Oh no, see the BlueSky link from Pelespirit below. Folks who were there commented, the booing was for the Cybertruck, folks went back to cheering for the other floats that bookended the Cybertruck XD
If you check out the NOLA.com broadcast, it was (as usual) a real positive crowd of revelers at Mardi Gras. I didn’t hear any jeering, EXCEPT for the Cybertruck group.
“We had a couple boos”
Lol, you are in complete denial, lady. Nobody likes your swasticar.
They can put this in their ads. “The new Tesla Cybertruck. Blood and garbage just wash off of it. It’s panels are rock resistant and even resist molotov cocktails for up to 3 minutes…”
Bahaha, they’ll need a long disclaimer. YMMV sort of language. The orange Cybertruck, they were live-streaming from inside of it, I guess. Influencers were driving it. They showed off the damage in their video, looks like a cracked windshield and roof on their “bulletproof” truck.
How do you think the end would go?
All the screens went black a few moments ago, and smoke is starting to find it’s way in. Do you think a moment of painful irony will was over them, that the same systems designed to keep others out will keep us in? Like the legendary city of Troy, we cannot get out once they are in?
Or do think, with their last gasp of breathable air, they curse the liberals and communists?
Or do think, with their last gasp of breathable air, they curse the liberals and communists?
I would expect it would go something like “Dang woke DEI molotov cocktail, it’s trapped me in the master truck! Truly this is Obama’s fault.”
As a totally unrelated side note, I wonder how much thermite you’d need and where you’d need to place it to have it burn a hole through the car and into the battery, turning your cybertruck into a cyberfire.
Now that is an interesting question. I’d have to do some research to form a hypothesis, but I’m sure the field work will yield interesting results regardless of outcome. Given the different environments in which these vehicles can be found, it may require many peer reviewed studies before any conclusive results can be determined.
Not really a “not the onion” story.
New Orleans is a funny place
