He genuinely thought people would pay him for the privilege of being on his website because he surrounds himself with sycophants both on-and-offline. Musk fan boys prove this to be true because they'll buy a shitty $3,374,892.55 aluminum death trap and thank him when it doesn't work.
Of course, there's the problem of everyone who was already on Twitter isn't a muskrat. He thought celebrities and news outlets would fall in line like so many valley techbros, which is something anyone who isn't a dipshit realized was a terrible idea.
He genuinely thought people would pay him for the privilege of being on his website because he surrounds himself with sycophants both on-and-offline. Musk fan boys prove this to be true because they'll buy a shitty $3,374,892.55 aluminum death trap and thank him when it doesn't work.
Of course, there's the problem of everyone who was already on Twitter isn't a muskrat. He thought celebrities and news outlets would fall in line like so many valley techbros, which is something anyone who isn't a dipshit realized was a terrible idea.
I get that part, it's the not actually verifying people when they pay for the verification that I don't understand.