I think you misunderstand why Elliot is celebrated, well I can't speak for everyone, but for me personally it had to do with 3 things
1. Time - He just did his stuff in the right era, the media often likes to take guys like these and make them look like monsters, but elliot had a decent collection of videos in which he was very relatable.
2. Sincerity - In his manifesto and his videos he was very honest and straight forward, that made him very relatable to many men facing the same problems. Cho just came off as some kind of crazy guy ranting about his crazy agenda in his manifesto, Elliot came off as a regular guy driven to madness by constant rejection and a system that seemed to be against him. When I read cho's manifesto I feel no "connection", when I read Elliots its easy to "connect" and see similarities in our lives.
3. Prominence - The position his father held lended greatly to his legend spreading which was good for "the cause" and I think he knew that, which is exactly why he wrote a manifesto. Elliot was just the perfect guy for this in the perfect era for it (technology/social media crazed era).
Elliots manifesto is really dangerous from the perspective of normal society, I'm pretty sure a lot of important people in high positions were thinking "oh shit" when they realized these writings were available for millions of men to read with no restriction, because society currently functions and profits by leaving men disenfranchised, writings like these which are so easy to relate to and so well written will lead to a lot of "conversions". In fact I didn't even consider myself incel, or becoming immersed in "black pill culture" until I heard about Elliot, until I read his manifesto.
I don't think anybody props Elliot up because he's "good looking", actually him being "good looking" actually adds to our argument, that even average or slightly above average looking men are going to have it hard getting sex and relationships with female hypergamy left unregulated and out of control.
His good looks is the ultimate weapon against copers, if he was butt ugly the average incel in denial (like myself years ago) would just tell themselves - "yeah but that won't be me because I'm better looking than him, I still have a chance". Elliot is better looking than me, and that's exactly what led to be thinking - "Holy shit no wonder my luck with women has been this bad, if a guy who looks like this can't get laid for being "shy" what chance do I really have".
He's just a "really good package" to present and spread the concepts and ideology of inceldom and the black pill. A right place right time kind of scenario. His looks are just the nail in the coffin to silence copers, its the first three things I mentioned that are important, what made his story spread and become more synonymous with inceldom.
Like I said and I hope you really let this sink in, I myself would have ignored his story if he was uglier than me, I know for a fact I'd tell myself that I still had a chance, because I have average looks. At some point I'd have made my way to the black pill because I've always been a logical objective minded person but it would have been years from now, after wasting even more time and money trying. Elliot Rodger and his story saved me a lot of time.
If he wasn't so honest and eloquent in his writings or videos he'd never have had the same effect he did, he wasn't ranting like he was on drugs like cho in his videos, he was having pleasant conversations with his viewers about the pains he faced, the pains we face. His tone was always polite and eloquent laughably even in his last video where he's plotting to go on a killing rampage.
To go on a tangent Aizen from the anime bleach is my favourite character in all of everything, because he's always calm and collected, and that's what I saw in Elliot, there was rage but he was in control of the rage, it wasn't controlling him, there was no fussing and fuming, there was only purpose, intent, he knew what he wanted to do and he was just going to do it, end of story.
You can't even compare the two, I don't even care about kill streaks I care about longevity and effectiveness. Elliot has and will go on to inspire many future mass shootings and more, cho just sounded like a crazed out of breath lunatic, no "charisma" at all. Elliot oozed charisma. Cho's speech is all over the place, he wasn't specific about anything at all, wtf did he mean by lines like - "vandalized my heart, raped my soul, tortured my conscience.", he was wasting time trying to be poetic instead of just stating what it is he mean't, he just came off as a "try hard" trying to "make an impact" and "become a legend". That's the great irony, he even said in his video his actions will go on to inspire many more, but people barely remember him and its Elliots actions that do that and Elliot was just doing all this FOR HIMSELF. That's shows true conviction, notice for Elliot he its "HIS day of retribution". He isn't saying stuff like Cho like its for his "sons" and "brothers" out there.
Cho doesn't sound sincere, he doesn't sound like he really has his heart in it, notice he's even reading from a piece of paper, while eliiot is giving his speech from his head, because its simply what he really thinks and feels, he doesn't need a script. It just sounds like cho put together some "deep sounding" shit so he can give himself an excuse/rationale to do it. Elliot sounds and looks as if he truly believes in what he's doing.
