Horror novelist Stephen King is a hard one to pin down. No way was he going to pay $8 a month to keep his blue check — after all, he was providing Twitter with free content and Twitter should have been paying him all along for his awesome tweets. A lot of celebrities said they’d leave Twitter if Elon Musk went through with his plan to erase all legacy blue checks, which he did Thursday. King still had the blue checkmark, though, which led people to believe he’d ponied up the $8 a month for a Twitter Blue subscription.
It turns out he was being trolled by Musk, who revealed that he had paid for Twitter Blue subscriptions for certain celebrities, like King, William Shatner, and LeBron James. “You’re welcome namaste” Musk replied to King.
King didn’t like being owned so hard, so after some thought, he came up with a witty rejoinder … Musk should donate King’s blue check to a foundation helping Ukraine, and maybe throw in a bit more on top.
I think Mr. Musk should give my blue check to charity. I recommend the Prytula Foundation, which provides lifesaving services in Ukraine. It's only $8, so perhaps Mr. Musk could add a bit more.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 22, 2023
If only there were some incredibly rich celebrity who knew about this situation and could step up to help the Prytula Foundation with this issue.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) April 22, 2023
King’s net worth is estimated to be only around a half-billion dollars, so he’s not in Musk’s league.
Elon has ALREADY spent over $100 million for Starlink satellites for Ukraine.
Let us know when your charitable contributions match, Stephen.— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) April 22, 2023
You're worth over a half a billion dollars yourself.
Trying to shame people who gift you things into charity just doesn't quite hit the same when that's the case, my dude.
— Gretchen Lynn (@Bubola) April 22, 2023
Nice of you to spend other people's money so freely, as liberals do.
— Wonko The Sane (@WMD25178127) April 22, 2023
Damn. Twitter was on the verge of being better, if you would have left it like you repeatedly said you were going too.
— 🇺🇸Stand4Logic🇺🇸 (@wheresourLOGIC) April 22, 2023
There’s no greater 8 dollar cause than trolling you with a paid checkmark you hate having 😂
— Steven Steele (@MrStevenSteele) April 22, 2023
How about you keep the Blue Check and donate yourself? 🤔
— Doug 🇺🇸 (@ProudPatriot247) April 22, 2023
How much of your personal money are you providing?
— Xring3 LLC firearms ™ (@Tactical_review) April 22, 2023
Send the $8 to the Ukraine yourself. It’s amazing how the people with $400 million + are the ones who are most incensed that they have to pay $8 bucks a month. Stop virtue signaling, it doesn’t look good on you.
— PaulE (@PaulERoth) April 22, 2023
What EVER happened to “ it’s Twitter and they can do what they want” ?
— Mr. Coffeefe ☕️ (@MAGARIFFIC2) April 22, 2023
As a wealthy author, you could work with other authors to raise funds to purchase more Starlink terminals and pre-purchase 12 months' worth of service for each terminal.
That would have an immediate impact and something you could champion using your platform and audience.
— James Rosone – Amazon KDP All-Star Author (@jamesrosone) April 22, 2023
Nothing stopping you from paying it forward.
I've never seen someone cry so much about getting something for free.
— SideTraKd (@SideTweetz) April 22, 2023
This public game of virtue-poker is getting out of hand.
— Skeptical Thinking Analyst (@ii_analyze) April 22, 2023
Anything else he should do for you?
— Jeff (@jeff_4_ever) April 22, 2023
How about King donates everything to Ukraine and moves into a trailer without internet access so he won’t be able to tweet?
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LOL: Stephen King’s blue check is now funded by Elon Musk in epic trollhttps://t.co/zGOe2l7zqX
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 21, 2023
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