Remember when lefty blue-checks were melting down over the prospect of losing their fancy blue-checked status when Elon Musk took over Twitter? And then they melted down a little more when they realized that they’d get to keep their blue checks, which meant that they’d made a big deal out of nothing?
Well, now they’ve got a new reason to be angry: regular people now have a chance to invade the elitist space by paying $8 a month for Twitter Blue and a blue checkmark of their own. That, Elon, is just going too far, sir!
Here’s the Washington Post’s Philip Bump, for example:
No, for a price. He will figure out that usernames are stores of value and he will try to monetize it. https://t.co/i8ICxWQFm3
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 10, 2022
Guys, he’s really bitter:
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) November 10, 2022
Oh no! God forbid some normie pollutes Philip’s filter:verified searches. He might accidentally be exposed to a member of the hoi polloi!
Think he realize how elitist that sounds?
— Scott Sorvaag (@ScottSorvaag) November 10, 2022
If he does, he doesn’t seem to care. He’s just broadcasting to everyone that he’s everything snobby, snooty blue-checks like him claim not to be.
This just in: blue check doesn't like changes to platform that formerly catered to blue checks
— Oculus Reparo (@PFlat2) November 10, 2022
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Once again – pre-Musk verification was arbitrary. Statements like this just enforce the idea that the checks were a status signifier. "I just want to see tweets from important people." https://t.co/qcDPcqpkG7
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) November 10, 2022
Mais oui.
Shame we can’t pay to take his check.
— Colin (@dudeitscolin) November 10, 2022
Heh. We’d be willing to pay to take him and his ilk down a peg or 73649.
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