If you’re a Twitter user, chances are you’re familiar with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Twitter Blue, Elon Musk’s very silly and poorly-informed decision that allows people to pay for verification. When he first instituted this system, he framed it as “power to the people”, stating that the current system was akin to “lords and peasants”. Twitter Blue gives people willing to pay $8 a month access to subscriber-only features like Tweet editing, 1080p video uploads, and reader mode – most importantly, it gives subscribers a blue checkmark next to their name, identifying them as a verified account.Under the program, official businesses that were previously verified are now required to pay a monthly fee of $1,000 in order to stay verified and receive a gold checkmark proving their status. Accounts verified before the launch of Musk’s new system were deemed “legacy verified” and informed that their verification would be removed within months. It finally happened last week, when Elon made Twitter even worse than he already had by removing all legacy verifications, leaving only people who have paid for their checkmarks as verified on the platform. Most people who lost th🎶eir verified statuses refused to pay to get it back. Since then, celebrities and accounts with over a million followers have started mysteriously having their checkmarks returned. Clicking on the checkmarks indicates they’ve paid for Twitter Blue, but many of these people, including Lil Nas X, Stephen King, Hasan Piker, several sports teams and magazines, and most hilariously, shitposter @dril, have denied paying for Twitter Blue, with some even actively trying to get rid of their blue ticks so they don’t look as if they want the checkmark.
If you’re not familiar with Dril, you must not be terminally online, and for that, I’m jealous of you. What you need to know is that Dril is Twitter’s best poster, an internet phenomenon, and he has been since the late-2000s. He g🎃ained over a million followers over two decades, posting tweets that frequently get integrated into the larger Internet lexicon of screenshots people save to use as reaction memes. One example is the . Another, .🅷 Yet another, .
Sometimes his posts are satire, and sometimes they’re just about piss and balls. One thing is clea꧋r from profiles and interviews on him – he does not think highly of Twitter. He also does not think highly of Twitter Blue users. In a tweet earlier this month, he said in typical dril style, “theyre gonna put me on the board of ꦆdivorced fat fucks in charge of this shit. i got 1000 ideas to make this web site suck even more Dick”.
Somehow, Musk has mismanaged his company so badly that people are not only refusing to buy Twitter Blue, they are refusing to have it even for free, as it’s largely considered a mark of shame at this point. Ever sinceꦦ Twitter Blue was launched, people who paid for their blue ticꦰk have been mocked online with a deluge of memes along the lines of “haha this mf paid for twitter”.
In fact, thanks to the recent removal of legacy verifications, we’re only left with Twitter Blue, which has led Twitter users to start the #BlockTheBlue movement. It’s an effort to block Twitter Blue subscribers en masse to negate the effect of Twitter boosting their tweets, not just so paying subscribers get less value out of the service, but to give us a little more peace on our timeline. I’m not interested in seeing Musk fanboys and blue-checked bigots being given more prominence on the social platform I use most, purely because they have mꦺore money than I do and don’t know how to spend it.
Of course, Elon Musk wouldn’t let that slide. The @BlockTheBlue account was suspended very soon after news platforms started writing articles about it. Unfortunately for Musk, was already on-board, leading to the funniest series of tweets the weekend could bring. When speaking to about #BlockTheBlue, he sai⭕d, "99% of twitter blue guys are dead-eyed cretins who are usually trying to sell you something stupid and expensive, and now they want to pay a monthly subscription fee to boost their dog shit posts front and center", and that it was “funny” to block them and encourage other to do the same because it’s the opposite of what they want.
When the BlockTheBlue Twitter account was shut down, dril , which attracted a lot of blue check-havers to his mentions where th♛ey defended themselves. Shortly after, he replied to the original tweet with “Ah they got me. Im fucked” and a screenshot of a blue tick next to his name. Afterwards, he started changing the name on his profile – apparently, if you change your name, the blue check goes away until Twitter re-verifies you. Many celebrities, including Chrissy Teigen, have used this to get rid of their verification status.
For some reason, Dril’s checkmark kept returning. One user chronicled it, tweeting about how the checkmark would only remain on Dril’s account for less than a minute before he would change his name again, removing it. As of the time of writing, Dril’s account is now unverified. His display name is currently “slave to Woke”, and he has reported that he♏ is currently “under review&𒁃rdquo; and no longer allowed to change it. His last few tweets have been dragging Elon Musk specifically. I can’t help but wonder if his account will get suspended.
As Dril told Mashable, "everyone has always Hated twitter, even before the day elon dragged a sink into the main office while grinning like a doofus." He continued, "nobody respects it, it is almost certainly responsible for a sharp increase in overall human misery, and if myꦦ brand must suffer so that this entire Shit hole will perish, that is fine to me." It’s fine to me too,ꦡ Dril.