‘People are Going to Die’: The Great Twitter Meltdown Over the Loss of Legacy Checkmarks
Stay safe from the “hostage blue check thing”
Yesterday, we witnessed the grand apocalypse for Legacy Blue Checks, and ever since, we’ve been swimming in their flood of tears.
Bye, Twitter. 🥺 The tipping point was having to pay for verification, when we feel we add a lot of value. We also feel solidarity with NPR, and share concerns about Twitter’s direction. You can find us on the blog and TikTok. If we join another platform, we’ll send word here. 🫡
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) April 20, 2023
Elon took my blue check away! I’m unverified! After all these years and thousands of tweets and free content, this worm has the nerve to de-certify me!
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) April 20, 2023
So by revoking my blue check mark because I wouldn’t pay some arbitrary fee, someone can just be me and say a bunch of bullshit. Does that mean Twitter and @elonmusk are liable for defamation or identity theft or fraud?
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) April 20, 2023
Funny story. I actually was paying for Twitter blue until this whole hostage blue check thing happened and I cancelled it because of that.
— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) April 21, 2023
It really sunk in for me today that Elon is trying to be Trump. A chaos agent with an endless thirst for attention and validation. The grievances. The narcissism. The incessant punching down and bigotry. The shady business connections. It's the same toxic brew.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2023
Tucker Carlson has a blue check. So does Sean Hannity and Elon Musk. The NAACP and NY Times don’t. I’m more than good being one of the latter.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) April 21, 2023
At this rate, we might just need to launch a GoFundMe campaign to supply them with endless tissues for their sniffles.
We’ve started a “save-a-celebrity fund” to pay their $8. We take this matter very seriously.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2023
Sponsor A Liberal For Just $8 A Month https://t.co/gLGqfSLsNW pic.twitter.com/B8GNTfGWGm
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 10, 2023
Meanwhile, we have folks scrambling to ensure the world knows their blue check didn’t cost them a dime, thanks to the gracious handout from good ol’ Elon.
My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t.
My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven’t.— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 20, 2023
Just Shatner, LeBron and King
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2023
We join Ron Coleman and are the most worried about an entire branch of the US government leaving Twitter. The replies to his tweet won’t let you down. HA!
Great. Now an entire branch of the US government is gone from Twitter
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) April 20, 2023
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) April 20, 2023
We have other people joking as well…. we think this is a joke. Is it?
Elon thinks this is a funny joke. As a former verified account who lost their blue checkmark, I know how dangerous this really is. People are going to die. https://t.co/5HJkDLmko5
— Julie Melner (@UsingCigarettes) April 20, 2023
Normal folks are trying to explain that “verification” on Twitter has always been broken. Paying for a Blue Check is not really about verification as it is to get extra features.
On Twitter 1.0, the blue check system served as a de facto caste system. Now it's an honest way to pay for the edit button and better protection vs. impersonation, rather than a symbol of status.
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) April 21, 2023
People bitching about blue checks, take it up with the previous owners who made the blue checks about status. If you had the wrong political views it didn’t matter how much documentation you sent, how many stories, followers … it was biased and obnoxious.
Suck it up.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 21, 2023
The resistance from content creators with big accounts to paying twitter for a blue check makes no sense to me @elonmusk has salvaged twitter and made it into the only mainstream free speech social media platform
Putting some dollars behind twitter makes perfect sense
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 21, 2023
But overall…
Such a great day in so many ways
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2023
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Comments
First world problems of people that have better things to do, but choose to engage in idiocy.
The real issue isn’t the $8, it’s that they’re no longer ‘better than the plebs’ they looked down on. If you weren’t ‘someone special’ with the ‘right political views’ you couldn’t get a checkmark.
Now everyone is equal and they can’t stand it.
+10000000
What would Alyssa Milano, or even Bette Midler, be today without their constant use of Twitter over the last few years? A barely-working B actress and a semi-retired entertainer.
They would have faded into obscurity without Twitter.
Yet, they think they are God’s gift to the platform.
“After all these years and thousands of tweets and free content”
All these years, I thought Antifa and BLM were burning down blue cities.
Now I realize that they were “giving us free content.”
Seems to me lying about an untested jab is getting people killed. YOU not getting a liberal check not so much.
Self-abortion? Forced by egotistical dysphoria. #JadedRevenge
Boo f*cking hoo … the idiots don’t get to act like they’re better than everyone else anymore. f*ck them.
I think Musk should offer both red and blue checks. So people can tell better who’s who…
Nah. Then people will start demanding rainbow checks, and then everything goes to shit, like everything else.
“People are going to die”
100% assured; no one escapes.
With or without Twitter.
This is what happens thelegacy media and its cheerleaders become just like those who deems too stupid to understand the truth
These self-absorbed people never want to pay, even a loosy $6
Killed? By a bool?
The existential crisis will continue until we experience a math overflow and the negated statement becomes true.
The Karen’s have complained to the manager. They will have to pay like the rest.
I would suggest these people have lost their freaking minds but we all know that happened a long time ago.
“It really sunk in for me today that Elon is trying to be Trump.”
Did the date fly right over everybody’s heads? Not Trump.
“Such a great day in so many ways.”
Musk is laughing at you all, you ahistorical dweebs.
“Great. Now an entire branch of the US government is gone from Twitter”
A good first step, to be sure… but we can’t relax now, there are so many more dangerous
gunsparasites to ban.‘People are Going to Die’: The Great Twitter Meltdown Over the Loss of Legacy Checkmarks”
Reality check. Less than 1% of humanity even know what a “Legacy Checkmark” is and most of them couldn’t care less.
Celebrities can, of course, pay $8 a month. But there are unfortunate people who can’t afford that —
— ANTIFA agitators coordinating riots
— Pedoph…, er, ‘minor attracted persons’
— millennial progressives tweeting from a Starbucks, car or basement
— Gang members planning the next snatch and grab at a Nordstroms
Oh, the humanity…
Less than the price of a cup of coffee. For just pennies a day you can sponsor an entitled, whiny leftist and help them retain their blue checkmark ..
Operators are standing by. Your generous donations help bring the leftist light into the world one checkmark at a time. Won’t you help us with this important mission? /S
“ANTIFA agitators coordinating riots”
“Gang members planning the next snatch and grab at a Nordstroms”
They actually probably prefer to remain unverified.
I think people ought to offer to sponsor individual celebs, and then proclaim it to the world as a charity.
I’m starting the “George Costanza EGo-Fund-Me.”
Amazing how every single one of these vile, obnoxious, narcissistic, self-congratulatory and sanctimonious twits in mainstream media, entertainment and the Dumb-o-crat Party, marches in total lockstep with regard to their hostility towards Musk and Twitter, solely because of his efforts to call out and combat the Dumbs’ Orwellian and totalitarian censorship efforts.
Not a single one of these snakes possesses the moral probity and independence to align with free speech.
You are asking too much of the Left.
They’re in such alignment you’d think they could all share one twitter account, jointly pay the $8, and take turns tweeting. After all, they’re not going to say anything with which the others would disagree.
For the life of me, I thought Dan Rather was dead. I guess it was just his career.
“People are going to die.”
Huh? I thought we all died when net neutrality didn’t get implemented.
Good memory. I had forgotten the Dumb-o-crats’ histrionics and hysterics on this issue. As per usual, once the Dumbs throw their tantrums, they breezily move on to their next exercise in demagoguery and contrived “crisis” agitprop.
Hell, we’ve all died 25 times already, once for each state that passed Constitutional Carry.
The irony of a complaint about a fee that is a good bit cheaper for them than the subscriptions for the middle class to the content they receive royalties from (netflix, amazon prime, hulu, et al).
Of course, this fee is about ensuring that they are verified and able to control their content but no, this should be done for free because we like to complain!
I never thought I’d hope for someone to die by suicide, but I can only see two ways for that “People are going to die” twit to make it true, and I detest murder far more than suicide.
Remember the name whenever you need to choose an accountant. Unless you think it does not matter whether an accountant is plugged into reality, you do _not_ want Julie Meiner.
She’s scheduled to be replaced by AI anyways, so she’s expendable.
Oddly enough, everyone I’ve seen so far screeching about blue check marks and threatening to leave twitter like Midler and Milano are people I hope to never hear from again.
Another Grand Master Move by Musk to save us from their mind numbing stupidity.