Only other twitter users see the blue checkmark. The people who think it’s dumb aren’t around.
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neidu2@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I’d think that once you’re at the level where you not only stick around in the dumpster fire, but also willingly give your money to this manchild, you lack the awareness needed to see how bad a blue checkmark looks on you anyway.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 5 months ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 5 months ago
FYI: Blue checkmarks were a thing LONG before paying for blue checkmarks was a thing.
BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Nobody is unaware of that. It’s just that before Musk took over, the checkmark meant something completely different. What it means today is potentially embarrassing enough for people to want to hide it. Now they can’t.
Before Musk the checkmark meant “This user’s identity has been verified and they are notable enough to need that verification”.
Today it means “This user pays for Twitter”.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 months ago
Seriously, I don’t understand tgat person’s point. Before elon the check ment “yes this really is Billy West, voice actor for a lot of things”. It wasn’t a hard concept.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, but that was before PG changed what they meant and allowed fake verified users to damage real companies stock value (which I find funny AF), rendering the blue check meaningless and basically tuned it into a scarlet letter.
youngalfred@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Iirc just recently they started giving out blue ticks to people with lots of followers, regardless of if they wanted it. Then this week they make it so you can’t hide them. It seems like a dim move - piss off the people who bring lots of traffic to your website, but actively decided to not get a blue tick, by forcing the tick on them.
If they didn’t leave beforehand, maybe this would make some people/orgs consider leaving?
zeppo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He’s been forcing blue checks on people since the initial change - with Stephen King, for instance. Basically a way to promote the program and make it look like prominent people are paying, but also a confused mix with the previous verification check marks:
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It really does seem like he’s -trying- to kill it