"OK, screw the advertisers, we're gonna make money by giving visibility benefits to paying subscribers, that'll fix it."
"Sir, there's now a negative stigma around paid subscribers, since too many scammers and morons are taking advantage of the benefits."
"OK, so go find big and popular users and make it look like they are also paid subscribers, that'll fix it. Force all existing subscribers to display it too, while you're at it."
This is all because dark-Twitter started elevating paid bluecheck comments. But paid bluecheck comments are far & away Musk kool-aid drinking loons. So comments now prominently feature rabid right wing zealot basement-dweller trolls providing zero useful or interesting content, and still taking over the top dozens or hundreds of comments because of the paid-for algorithm.
It's a mark of shame to pay for blue checks. No one of good mind does so. Being ranked amid these losers & pitiful comments is a scorn on one's name.
Twitter either could go back, & re figure out what to do. But they would never do that. In an attempt to salvage their comments, they have forcibly conscripted good people into being bluechecks, and now rescinded their ability to disassociate themselves from this.
I truly am amazed at Elon's modern Twitter, for it's ability to amplify & enhance shit, and this maligned & sure to fail attempt at press ganging good citizens into covering up this obvious disaster that will almost certainly not work.
Tl;dr: dark-Twitter is trying to forcibly manifest noospheric potpourri to mask the vile they've created.
This… seems like a terrible idea? I mean, it’s Musk, so of course, but still. Like, if someone is hiding their Mark of Shame, if they’re forced to display it they might just unsubscribe.
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"OK, so go find big and popular users and make it look like they are also paid subscribers, that'll fix it. Force all existing subscribers to display it too, while you're at it."
1. X's forced premium users edit their display names to indicate that they didn't opt in to it
2. X edits display names against user will
It's a mark of shame to pay for blue checks. No one of good mind does so. Being ranked amid these losers & pitiful comments is a scorn on one's name.
Twitter either could go back, & re figure out what to do. But they would never do that. In an attempt to salvage their comments, they have forcibly conscripted good people into being bluechecks, and now rescinded their ability to disassociate themselves from this.
I truly am amazed at Elon's modern Twitter, for it's ability to amplify & enhance shit, and this maligned & sure to fail attempt at press ganging good citizens into covering up this obvious disaster that will almost certainly not work.
Tl;dr: dark-Twitter is trying to forcibly manifest noospheric potpourri to mask the vile they've created.