> Tesla is the only car brand where such a minor recall (that can be fixed via an OTA update) results in a news article by a major news distributor.
If Kanye West clothing brand were to be found using slave labor it would make way more noise than if a generic brand did it.
Matter of fact the sole ownership of a brand by some famous person increases scrutiny.
That's because fame produces about an equal amount of admirers and haters.
Point is that it's really foolish to feel sorry for people like Musk and the Kardashians, they did it all out of their free will, nobody forces them to keep injecting themselves in the newscycle. They aren't employees so there is no record executive or movie producer dragging them by the hair to do media.
When Bob Dylan got tired of the inconveniences of fame he simply fired his agents and embraced a low profile, same with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Daniel-Day-Lewis all the way to George Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter etc.
All of them were much bigger names than Musk and the Kardashians, and some of them were also employees so they had to re-negotiate their position with the record labels and movie studios to do less media, and sure enough they got out of the newscycle. So it can be done, but something tells me that both the Kardashians and Musk don't want to give up their fame acquired for shitposting and dicking around on TV.