I'm actually surprised Elon was able to make twitter THIS bad. On most tweets I have to scroll through 50 blue people's extremely cringe replies because anything and everything they say is put on top. And they all have the exact same personality and 2013 ass humor as Elon, so it's like almost any corner of twitter is bombarred by Elon's clones that have absolute priority in the algorithm
It's because having the checkmark prioritises your visibility in replies and feed.
Elon isn't a "content is king" which is what all the successful social media people have been for decades now. The goal has always been to promote the highest quality content (to the largest number of people) to visibility because that's the content people wanna see and you're competing with every other social media site for their time and attention. If you don't have the content, someone else will attract them with better content.
The new blue check goes against all of this. The people buying it are the people who make TRASH CONTENT.
Twitter, and all social media, is gameified. Gameification makes it a game. Scoring points is a game. Getting visibility is a game.
They made the game pay 2 win. The response and attitude to doing that is extremely similar to videogames.
The people paying for it are bazinga brains, enriched for the reactionary suburbanite tendency.
This means anyine trying to use Twitter for lefty things is always gonna have their first reply be the obsessive troll.
The funniest part is they're framing it as "elites are mad the everyday person can have verified status now"
Is this the avanced true AI robot intelligence swarm El*n warned us about?!?
It's incredible to see, in that all this is because of one man. Usually it's nameless shareholders who encourage CEOs and boards of directors to make bizarre decisions, but Elon bought Twitter, and all the bad shit that is happening now is directly attributable to him. It's not the first time new owners have ruined a website, but it's by far the most high-profile case I can think of, and he just keeps on digging himself into that hole.
"I Elon Musk will now task the funniest person on my platform with crafting a razor sharp and outlandishly simple beatdown of my entire life and personality"
There's definitely at least one person at Twitter who's job has become 24/7 drilwatch
anyone remember 2016 when (I think Rebecca Traister) claimed the dirtbag left was being misogynist because "corncobbed" was a reference to corn cob sodomy in Faulkner
dril's replies are just now full of that picture of Elounge and Maxwell, taken at Epstein's party lol
