I came back when the Queen died, had a blast for a few days, and a week later promptly realized how much of my life was already being sucked back into it so I deleted the app again. I am truly happier without it. looking back I only ever reached for it when I was absolutely devoid of any other source of dopamine.. I think that says a lot about what it was doing for (and to) me. I genuinely feel more healthy playing an MMO for dopamine hits than using Twitter, how screwed up is that?
The checkmark thing is very weird. I thought the whole idea of the checkmark is to verify you are the actual person and not some impersonator. If he wants to do subscriptions he can implement some premium accounts with additional features, like they exist in UA-cam and Spotify.
This is what confused me so much. Didn't twitter already have a subscription service for a "premium" account or something? I swear I watched a video of someone testing it (it was shit, but at least it would be better to just improve that instead of making this new, bigger shit).
That's the part I'm still scratching my head about Didn't someone filed a lawsuit against Twitter because of someone pretending to be them on Twitter Shit why is it only Twitter being verified is such a shit show on UA-cam and Instagram the process is fairly simple
He said public figures would have a separate subtitle saying they are public figures. I see this as being for your average joe who wants to advertise their own Twitter because it puts your tweets at the top, similar to how instagram works. 8$ is too much for just that, and it should really be zero ads like UA-cam, but you're still getting more than the "super follower" thing.
The problem is the blue checkmark verification became a status symbol instead of what it’s meant to be- a verification that the person speaking is *verifiably* behind their statements.
I would say that it was both. I also think checkmarks were given out a little too liberally. A whole legion of journalists with like 100-1000 followers tops somehow got them lol not that it matters anymore. Elon will probably backtrack on this somehow because everyone’s pissed at him right now
@@Fivizzz at least is not behind a 'mysterious wall' twitter had before that would accept people with 100 followers and decline people with 6 digits followers, I know a lot of small creators that would pay the 20 to finally be accepted as a verified user
I think one of the biggest issues was how "special" some people thought the checkmark was/is. This will allow people to actually have a choice on verification. No longer will you have to fit into somebody's dogma to just be you.
The point of a checkmark is to prevent spam accounts pretending to be people, I've never been more astounded with how much companies abuse this idea, even GameJolt removed the checkmark from people they didn't like.
Twitter gives it away like candy to people that aren't in threat of their IDs being stolen. Glad Musk is forcing those that would actually need it to pay for it. Additionally his checkmark thing has been in the works before he took over. Charlie's stupid
Well and the way that people used to get verified for the media was awful. News orgs would just contact them and ask to get this person verified so they'd be taken more seriously. And people running ten thousand falsely verified accounts on a bot chain to influence perception of popular opinion now have to shell out some money to do damage to our social cohesion.
I usually never pay for something if I can use it for free, but the urge to buy a checkmark and talk about unions using elons image is just... so strong
Yall probably subscribe to streamers on twitch to have your comment lost in a wall of text still though, and unlock a few trash emotes that you can get for free with channel points anyway. Thats the same type of chromosome lacking nonsensical money burn as a check mark.
this is somewhat a good idea if they made it like you pay 8$ a month to keep the badge if you meet the requirements cause that amount is no big deal for an "internet celebrity" it is a bad idea if average joe can get the badge for 8$
After learning about the loan that was needed for him to buy Twitter, I must say it’s been incredible to see a website finally become less profitable than tumblr
@soled25 I agree. He could've paid it all himself if he really needed to. Having investors means you have other influential people who do not want this company to fail also. People bitch and bitch about how bad twitter is,then elon starts doing something about It and people bitch about that. Dude can't win. At the end of the day if people don't like the app, find a different one or don't use it rite? 🤷
Love that Charlie was like “twitter can’t get any worse and I know everyone will tell me I’m wrong but I can’t be wrong Elon can’t make it worse” and now he’s openly saying he’s been proven wrong almost immediately after that it’s hilarious
No one I know uses twitter either. Most twitter users were probably driven out way before Elon Musk. Its funny cus I live in America and my grade 5 teachers from New Zeland and I remember her talking about how trash twitter was back in 2015 lol
Yup. People have acted like a blue checkmark is some sort of virtuous symbol of authority. This should fix it... A bit. Read up on The Intercept how the government via DHS worked with Twitter to mass censor anyone who disagreed with them.
Hear hear; if anything maybe Elon is trying to slowly murder Twitter on the lowkey. If he is dead serious about the Superfollowers idea, then he's crazier than even his most vehement detractors thought.
“He’s not just a regular moron, he’s the product of the greatest minds of a generation, working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility.” -PotatOS
@@B0r3Dude apparently he was going to offer free speech in twitter.. considering he makes the worst ideas (yes, mars colonization is a dumb fucking idea -_-) i don't think it's gonna go well lmao..
I mean the checkmark system is already bullshit that only gives narcissistic asshats verification who more so use it as a "I'm Special" badge already anyways, and it doesn't matter if you're a popular figure Twitter will just straight up deny you a checkmark if they don't like you or disagree something you've said publicly. This would just make it bullshit in a different way. Besides, I WANNA see Twitter burn. So - you do you Elon, keep steering this ship directly into that rocky reef over there. Saying "people will only laugh at blue checkmarks" changes nothing, because people already laugh at blue checkmarks. Also, did any of you guys see media get trolled over the Twitter buyout? Once it was announced Elon was doing lay offs, a bunch of big media journalists rushed over to the main San Francisco offices and interviewed to supposed "engineers" who had just gotten fired. "Rahul Ligma" and "Daniel Johnson". Ligma and Johnson. Ligma. Johnson. Highlights of the interview: "I've gotta go touch base with my husband and wife, now if you'll please excuse me." "If Elon owned Twitter, Michelle Obama and Barack's presidency wouldn't have been possible!" pulls out Michelle Obama's book from his box, suggesting he kept it on his work desk.
@@evanamundson5800 the moment twitter's "people" started to think verifying someone means supporting is when it became useless...cuz then Twitter took away people's checkmarks, doesnt matter if theyre controversial or a shit person, its supposed to clarify if this bullshit being spewed is from them or a troll
@@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897 I'll tell you what worries me. If anyone can pay to get a checkmark people will start impersonating others or even make scams
i mean its literally the biggest social media site and can easily dictate and manipulate things like world elections and spread false information as if it hasnt been doing that for a decade now. you really undermining the power and problem of Twitter as a global issue
Honestly this sounds the exact same thing as being a member to a UA-cam channel or sues over on twitch. Will never understand why people waste money to follow strangers on the internet
@@Lawrence_Talbot well, atleast with the two options you presented you chose to support a creator because you like their work. The twitter system isnt even that, unless you love Musk
Conspiracy theory: He came out with the worst idea first and is going to further modify it to make people feel like he listens to feedback and then arrive at something where everyone thinks "Ok, that's more reasonable" even though if he had introduced it like that in the first place, he'd have gotten pushback for it because it's still bad.
I think removing "Verified Status" from society is a net positive. Verified by who exactly? The filth he just removed from Twitter? Good riddance to verified status IMO. The fact that Charlie says "I wouldn't take a check mark seriously anymore" is hilarious because it suggest he took it seriously before. "Anyone can do it now!" As opposed to only people who are approved by the biased criminals that used to run twitter. What a small brain take.
@@YRO. this "bandwagon hater" or "fanboy" bit is getting tired and old. any time you don't join the mob, you're immediatley blowing the balls off the person you simply don't want to burn at the stake. like, there is such a thing as nuance and differing opinion that isn't one extreme or another.
This idea sounds like something my grandpa could've thought if he was suddenly put in the command chair of twitter and everyone demanded him an idea to bring in more money
I'm so happy that you said all of that, there's people that saying that stephen king should not be bothered by this and pay because his rich, just because you're rich doesn't mean that you should have to pay for every dumb thing, and there's people who used the verified thingy and are not rich
Yeah, buying followers is quite easy... Right now a lot of known people don't have checkmarks for no reason when at the same time strange suspicious people have checkmarks... Checkmarks should be more serious and probably should generate money somehow because significant amount of effort is needed to verify people PROPERLY and ban scammers and bots. Lack of checkmarks doesn't mean lack of verification - people still will be verified internally because such info have to be used to fight with bots and scams in general (so without visible checkmark you probably just won't be prioritized and won't send visible signal to people). How good is this idea from pure "we want less scam" perspective (because there are other arguments as well) will depend on execution because it can potentially make things worse, but at the same time it can make things better especially if they would put effort into tracking and analyzing scams (which will be easier without warning signals like checkmarks). Charlie have no idea what he is talking about, bet there is a chance that he might be right especially in short term (because improvements can take some time)
@@timrim9405 the verification process doesn’t need to be improved even slightly at the moment, though, so the idea there will be 100 verified “The Rock” Twitter accs is a moot one.
A journalist with a handful of followers can have a checkmark, just to gloat about it. It’s a power trip for some people, added to that bot followers. It’s good to see it become undermined.
@@Hibernial yes, charlie doesn't get the point that paying for the checkmarks now and allowing everyone to have it, destroys the sense of superiority of those entitled people, is not really about money since the profit from this stunt is just a few millions
@@Hibernial ah yes because of a few tools you gonna overhaul the entire system But let see something The verification system was made to distinguish between the official celebrities, scientists, businesses and other people What's stopping people from doing that now Please explain I don't want this to be one sided
This is like taking your antibiotics, but stopping half way through. He's going to knock out some bots that can't or won't pay the $8, but making those that will pay that much stronger.
I think people are failing to see that you have to attach a bank account to pay for it. So it would be pretty stupid scamming people if that's on your card.
People need to stop convincing themselves that Elon’s bad ideas are intentional or just him trolling. Just because he shitposts unfunny memes on his Twitter feed doesn’t mean he is going to buy and then intentionally run into the ground a multi billion dollar company as a “meme”.
Imagine actively using Twitter anyway, anyone who is serious on twitter deserves to pay for a checkmark that means nothing and can be easily replicated lmao
I would pay if I wouldnt see bots anymore. I think plenty of people would too. You will still have to go through a verification process if you are celebrity. I cannot believe that people actually think Musk is some dumb retard that doesnt have clue about what he is talking about. You cannot be in 0,000001% and be dumb. World doesnt work like that
That's what he's pretending to want to do to garner PR reputation points from his cult of "edgelords," but he'd never throw away money like that. His goal is endless economic power like every fraudulent billionaire before him. He'll use twitter as a propaganda tool to promote his businesses and boost his dumb ego.
I mean it was lol. If you are getting into a beef with like dream vs a beef with like me, dream's fans will attack you while I do not have millions of people behind me
@@joeywin42 They still will be. What do people not understand about "becoming verified"? You and I can't pose as Nintendo and suddenly put out fake announcements about the next Zelda: "Journey Through Link's Pubic Region". It's hilarious how anyone thinks expanding a service to take in money will somehow make it less successful at weeding out the bad.
I can't tell if this is sheer incompetence or if he's intentionally destroying it out of spite. Either way, Twitter getting a stake through the heart is good for society in general
@@Polytank1981 stupidity being called out is ALWAYS necessary. Perhaps we, as a society, wouldn't be in the shit situation we are if people weren't so afraid to tell someone else you're being an idiot
And lost 44 billion in the process. This is also affecting tesla stock price because he’s tied himself so publicly to the company. His stupidity and arrogance is now on show for the world to see
yeah and then all the nasties will find another social media or make one so they can continue what they were doing...killing twitter doesn't solve the issue it just empowers people to find other ways spread awful stuff
this is the biggest brain play i’ve seen. You turn the check mark into a pay to win item and then introduce the Battle Pass of different check marks and effects they can have.
Yes, I'm all for twitter going full on microtransactions and pay to win. Either the site implodes or the twatterati shell out exorbitant amounts of cash in a desperate attempt to stay relevant
For reals. More tha half of the comments are pissed and are nit-picking Elon's actions because at the end of the day, they are just pissed he wanted to remove political biases.
“We need to pay the bills somehow. Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers” Translation: “I bought a company that does not run a profit as it currently is, please pay my bills for me”
Boston dynamics make better robot that work, his Hyperloop idea is old form 1950s and a metro train would've done the job but he can't profit form public transit, his rocket gotten nowhere and it is really space worthy, his self driving cars crashing into things or go offline unexpectedly, his cyber truck got nowhere this guy like to think he l Tony Stark but he more like 13 year with a an ego
No, that was Tumblr. When Yahoo opened the Tumblr box, it let loose a wave of infected furries, otherkin, and just outright freaks that have been infecting sites (especially Twitter) ever since.
He's not trying to stop bots, he's monetizing them. If the bots double in number but start making him money, that'll be a great success in his book. Hell, they may become his most solid source of revenue from that accursed site.
do you think someone running bots is going to pay 8 dollars per bot every month to keep them verified? They could i just dont know how effective that would be for the guy paying all the money
@@Shizzy5321 But now they are moving the same verification to be a simple text with the blue checkmark being a cosmetic item. I see this as a win since we get so many intital blue checkmarks thinking that they are better than anyone.
@@ipman3249 That would be fine. However now people with blue checkmarks will get prioritised replies which, while not worth 8 pounds, is against the free speech he is going for.
7:05 Sorry Charlie but you’re 100% wrong… we constantly see people pay for completely worthless things online because they’re desperate for online approval and validation. (i.e. Instagram likes and followers, UA-cam views, likes and subs, Facebook likes, etc… it quite literally happens all the time and this will be no different.)
The message Elon is sending is: "I'm a scummy money hungry soon to be ex-billionaire piece of shit, who exploits the incels that worship me." But we already knew that.
I love watching the downfall of Zuckerberg and Musk at the same time, it’s like they’re challenging each other to see which platform can reach its downfall first
lmao if you actually believe musk is in a "downfall" you've been chugging too much of that koolaid. get back on reddit dummy im sure theyll tell you what to think
As someone who does not use Twitter I find this entire situation funny as hell Edit: I also can’t help but feel like he’s trolling. Edit2: I should add I’m not a musk supporter personally I pay very little attention to what he does unless he’s mentioned in a video I’m watching
Yeah I honestly don't care about all of this since I don't use Twitter, but personally I think it's a bad idea and it's funny seeing the Musk supporters acting like this is anything but dumb.
It'd actually be funny if he was but he did just sink $44,000,000,000 into this shit, he's not going to abandon twitter cause it's a money sink he's willingly took onboard. Instead he'll take advantage of people's addictions to it and a lack of any competitor, and just charge for benign shit like he's already doing.
People need to stop convincing themselves that Elon’s bad ideas are intentional or just him “trolling”. Just because he shitposts unfunny memes on his Twitter feed doesn’t mean he is going to buy and then intentionally run into the ground a multi billion dollar company as a “meme”.
I just find it funny he thinks us peasants want a checkmark. It's like being a high school student and then one day the principle just comes out and says "alright if you pay me extra money I'll put Mr. or Ms. next to your name in the yearbook."
@@ogzombieblunt4626 It’s like giving peasants a crown for a few bucks so they can look like a king. It would be more fair taking all crowns from every king to be equal then letting lunatics act like someone they aren’t.
@@NikaSaurusRahwr Except its a service and people pay for services, the rich people are paying twitter so advertizers aren't controlling what can be said. This is the best option, you must have never run a business if you think twitter can keep losing money indefinitely 🤣. No such thing as a free lunch my friend
@@NikaSaurusRahwr If it was 'free' like on FB then its not free. Advertizers take your info, that is a price that consumers pay for a 'free' service. If you payed 8 dollars you're just paying up front and ensuring data security.
To be honest it makes it just as easy to spot scammers and idiots now as they'll be the only ones with the checkmarks. The legit people and smart people will be the ones without it. It's going to be like an immediate badge of saying "im an idiot, please ignore me"
There is an edit function now, currently for the Twitter blue people, but will soon be available to everyone. This happened within days of him taking over.
@@iROMine Twitter Blue launched the Edit button on Oct 6. Musk's purchase of Twitter concluded Oct 27. So edit button did not happen "within days of him taking over"
@@HarpsiFizz Just because you aren't perceptive enough to see something without it being spoon fed to you by a youtuber doesn't mean it's not true. ChrisWarcraft is now suspended for said tweet and account name.
If he want a subscription service, he can add other features like long form video/audio, custom page layout or somthin. It should be a service that would let companies have a better way to interect with their followers. When it comes to verification, that should be allowed for EVERYONE. Its a way to know you are who you say you are.
No. His reach isn't something he "should" allow everyone to "have." That's why you don't own any businesses and he just bought a 44 billion dollar one. If you don't like it, don't pay for it.
nah brother that laughter soon gonna turn into a frown real fast. I like characters and funny people like trump. But when they on top, it always ends really horrible
"You call free speech 'fee speech?'" "Yes, it's a classist dialect" "Uh-huh, what class?" "Ohhhne percent(?)" "Really, because I'm part of the one percent and I've never heard anyone refer to fee speech." "Not just the one percent, no. It's a one percent of the one percent expression." "I see."
Elon Musk is one of the world's greatest specialists in Ego, thanks for the astronomical amounts of navel gazing he has in his portfolio. He knows very damn well what he's doing.
@@willfakaroni5808 Tim Pool made a video on how it actually looks like, especially the premium $20 one. It fixes verification (and more than likely, prevents duplication of names that scammers can take advantage), adds tools like personalization (hints at longer tweets), edit button, etc., Tweet priorization and reply prioritization, etc. I like the idea just to remove all those pretenders who thought they are contributing to society by having blue checkmark rants, when now, they have to think twice before posting because they paid to a checkmark with a name attached to them, and people will now have the gall to call them out of their useless takes because they paid just to have such useless take
He's really done a steep dive since buying twitter. Like, at worst he'd go a couple weeks between doing/saying something stupid.. Now it's almost every day lol
I think he’s trying to destroy Twitter. Instead of hitting the delete button and having the instant retaliation that would inevitably come, he’s going to squeeze it dry until the community itself destroys Twitter by leaving.
sure but thats the whole point, to take away the 'grandeur' of having a blue checkmark to lord over people on a social media platform. complaining about it is missing the whole point.
I'm shocked they didn't offer a way to pay a one time fee to expedite getting the blue checkmark mark first. That at least seems more reasonable than an $8/month fee to get it and not lose it if you miss a payment. Always make gradual changes. Don't float a $20 plan and immediately reduce it to $8 thinking people could somehow think that is saving them $12 per month.
Tbf there are things like taht on UA-cam where you pay month to support creators that aren’t even any obligation to create content consistently and you get little to nothing in return
@@SoggySlopster Yeah but that's paying to support a creator, buyers know full well what the purpose of that money is, and it's going to creators not a mega-corporation and richest billionaire....This check mark thing is just a capitalist gate-keep to a not so "premium" service. Which will only serve to make bots/misinformation worse NOT better.
Yeah but think about who gets blue checkmarks, exclusively famous (and usually wealthy) people. So the only people this change would effect are people who quite literally wipe their ass with $8 and don't even bat an eye. I don't see why people are getting outraged at this
He's beyond parody at this point. Him playing Wario on SNL was pretty much sanctified divination of the future. He's never once had to make actual money-making decisions at ANY of his companies, so he has no clue how any of it works. People compare him to Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne, when at best he's Glomgold from Duck Tales.
Yeah says someone that knows nothing substantive... are you saying he doesn't allocate resources as CEO? That would be a bold claim considering his companies valuations and execution.
@@ogzombieblunt4626 Yea, he allocates resources, just see as he was forced to actually by twitter XD. If he was an actual CEO instead of self proclaimed, he would know how to read contracts instead of getting scammed by them. What a shill.
@@jironamos7650 Can you clarify exactly how he was scammed? He offered to buy Twitter at the price he ultimately payed... is that how you define a scam?
@Patrick39 There’s no fixing stupidity that takes the form of malfeasance if individuals who are activists are going to keep being activists. But there’s still such a thing as having standards for buying up an estate by pushing squatters off the premises.
It just makes the whole point of the verified account pontless. People will start to distrust the checkmark, and by definition it means "verified" if you can pay for verification, then you are not being "verified" based on anything. if everyone is suspicious about checkmarks, then checkmarks become redundant
I think it was a figure of speech. But also Stephen King is one of the most popular authors to have ever existed; so I think he can afford to have a bit of an ego.
I don't understand what is the problem with making paid feature? Do you want him to sale your data instead for the money like Facebook? Remember no free lunch in the world
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. With such a change, checkmarks are used for companies and massively popular influencers, not 'small time' individuals. I would actually understand a much more exorbitant fee at that rate... $100 - $500 a month for verification means it's marketed to corporations like Wal-Mart and wealthy influencers such as Lebron James and other such celebrities' with deep pockets. $20 put it in an awkward spot where it's low cost relatively, but also not very exclusive. Pricing it at $8 means that the 'premium' checkmark is diluted and a cheap commodity - but also is an insult to average users who just want to post memes and read up on news. Having tiered payment methods for versatile prioritization while also locking in accounts behind a surcharge (3/mo down payment) can essentially turn the site into a layered freemium model where spam accounts have to pay dividends to compete in feeds and will lose the value of their down payment when they are taken down quickly. It makes sense on paper - but that's just it... making sense on paper and making sense in a living, breathing market are two different things.
@@naryosh_ yes but what IS insulting is significantly dropping the price he was originally demanding after bartering the monthly cost down with a wealthy celebrity, back-tracking to try to market it as “affordable”, and then claim it’s for the people.
@@Kdkdleeme 'oh you a rich leftist millionaire can't pay 20? then here's my original plan for 8, thanks for making yourself look like a Champaigne socialist
Zuckerberg: "I will give 10 billion dollars to whoever makes me the metaverse." He proceeds to glance over to every programmer who can do it because they have an IQ above -5. Suckerberg: "No... not you guys. YOU OVER THERE! You're hired!" He says as he points to a half-eaten goldfish.
Idk how would u a random person on the internet or charlie who makes less than 0.1 percent than elon musk think that you are one to judge the richest dude on the planet - who made all of his money from ideas..
@@andrenal3609 He made all his money from his family's child-slave run cobalt mines and apartheid era policy. The only patent he owns is the charging port for teslas, he just pretends to have ideas and manipulates the stock market frequently enough to get rich
I don't get it, you pay $8 for verified check mark, but that doesn't remove the verification process which you will provide necessary documents in order to be verified, I'm not verified in Twitter so I'm just guessing. You cannot scam people as you cannot provide document for that person, and changing your name while being verified breaks the validation and I think removes your verified status. I don't even know if they allow you to change your name if you're verified.
@@hamboningmaster not saying it’s a good idea I’m just pointing how only the rich people that are making millions a year complaining about 20 dollar subscription like God forbid if they ever lend any money to help a company that they use daily and it’s not like they’re in a financial situation
@@hamboningmaster Dude you’re missing the point of my comment. I’m just pointing out that it’s funny how rich people are complaining about the subscription but 20 dollars is so insignificant to them. I’m not even making an argument here just pointing it out.
No. He spent 33 billions of his own money(other come from investors). He is trying to turn it into money printing machine, speedrunning destruction of it so hard, Tumblr is taking notes.
You realize only Blue Check "royalty" like Millionaire Charlie and billion dollar companies will be charged $8, right? You dont need a blue check to say whay you want. If anything, it makes the millionaires and billionaires pay for us peasants
I LOVE the thumbnail to this video. It reminds me of that one vine of the kid with 2 spoons over his eyes..."What are you doing?" "Mmmmmmblocking all the haters..." LUL
He should offer a service where you pay $8 to randomly remove a verification from a celebrity for an hour.
$16 to add a dunce cap over their picture, that'd be worth it
I'd pay that. Really mess with the narcissists
I’d pay it in a heartbeat
That’s a good idea right there.
🤣🤣🤣
The fact people haven’t clued into the fact Elon Musk is a bad idea generator is astounding to me
Elon musk is a richer Mike Pillow
Npc
They prolly high on copium
Right? Even Paris Hilton products have better sales ratios. Almost all of Musk's ideas are presented in CGI form and die in that position.
He is such a bad idea generator that his ideas made him one of the richest people to ever exist
The key to happiness is, and always has been, staying as far away from Twitter as possible.
that's what the ancient Greeks used to say
I came back when the Queen died, had a blast for a few days, and a week later promptly realized how much of my life was already being sucked back into it so I deleted the app again. I am truly happier without it. looking back I only ever reached for it when I was absolutely devoid of any other source of dopamine.. I think that says a lot about what it was doing for (and to) me. I genuinely feel more healthy playing an MMO for dopamine hits than using Twitter, how screwed up is that?
This. I don't use it and every time I see thr type of people on it, I know I am happier for it
And Reddit, Facebook, Tumblr (before it died), Twitch, and, honestly, UA-cam comments to a certain extent.
Yea i hope elon just shuts it down.
He somehow managed to create an issue that already had a solution
The checkmark thing is very weird. I thought the whole idea of the checkmark is to verify you are the actual person and not some impersonator. If he wants to do subscriptions he can implement some premium accounts with additional features, like they exist in UA-cam and Spotify.
This is what confused me so much. Didn't twitter already have a subscription service for a "premium" account or something? I swear I watched a video of someone testing it (it was shit, but at least it would be better to just improve that instead of making this new, bigger shit).
That's the part I'm still scratching my head about
Didn't someone filed a lawsuit against Twitter because of someone pretending to be them on Twitter
Shit why is it only Twitter being verified is such a shit show on UA-cam and Instagram the process is fairly simple
Arent they already doing that? Like I remember them mentioning there will still be a way to verify people but im not sure
He said public figures would have a separate subtitle saying they are public figures. I see this as being for your average joe who wants to advertise their own Twitter because it puts your tweets at the top, similar to how instagram works. 8$ is too much for just that, and it should really be zero ads like UA-cam, but you're still getting more than the "super follower" thing.
And adding a subscription service to the checkmark will make it even more of a status symbol, opposite of what he wants
If Twitter gets driven into the ground and TikTok gets banned, the world will improve instantly.
Facebook to
And reddit
the world would improve twice as much if reddit was deleted
@@whiskeyandchoke do you not understand supply and demand? It’s like the drug market. People gonna make another drug
@@whiskeyandchoke Reddit is fine. At least you can choose which subreddits you spend your time on
I feel like it was definitely possible to make Twitter a better site, but slowly and painfully killing it is also pretty cool.
Either you fix it, or you kill it. there is no inbetween
Slowly and painfully killing it is preferred
@AquaUwU you do you i guess
@AquaUwU These bots getting weirder and weirder every day. Is this supposed to upset someone?
@@jasperotte852 it's a bot jasper
I am clinically extremely depressed but Elon tearing down Twitter brings back a long lost sense of excitement and curiosity to my mind.
Blue checkmarks are a joke. I don’t see why anything to bruise their ego is a bad idea. Charlie’s just mad he’s lost his check
Seek treatment immediately
Same bro, same.
@@isgodreal1337 They said they are clinically depressed. That means they are diagnosed and therefore have sought treatment. Please use your head.
@@dbell1894 Fixing depression is hard; fixing ignorance can be much harder.
The problem is the blue checkmark verification became a status symbol instead of what it’s meant to be- a verification that the person speaking is *verifiably* behind their statements.
It's always meant to be a status symbol. It's social media, bro, not a courtroom
They'd have easily paid $20 to keep their dopamine hits. Stephen King would shrivel up and die with it being able to do his shitlib act on Twitter
I would say that it was both. I also think checkmarks were given out a little too liberally. A whole legion of journalists with like 100-1000 followers tops somehow got them lol not that it matters anymore. Elon will probably backtrack on this somehow because everyone’s pissed at him right now
Putting it behind a paywall is certainly gonna make it less exclusive...
@@Fivizzz at least is not behind a 'mysterious wall' twitter had before that would accept people with 100 followers and decline people with 6 digits followers, I know a lot of small creators that would pay the 20 to finally be accepted as a verified user
to be honest i love to see the downfall of twitter so the checkmark being not special makes me filled with joy
Dawg it never was special or important
The only reason it's entertaining at all is the anons.
Wow, this place has been infested with bots
Fuck yeah
I think one of the biggest issues was how "special" some people thought the checkmark was/is. This will allow people to actually have a choice on verification. No longer will you have to fit into somebody's dogma to just be you.
The point of a checkmark is to prevent spam accounts pretending to be people, I've never been more astounded with how much companies abuse this idea, even GameJolt removed the checkmark from people they didn't like.
Twitter gives it away like candy to people that aren't in threat of their IDs being stolen. Glad Musk is forcing those that would actually need it to pay for it. Additionally his checkmark thing has been in the works before he took over. Charlie's stupid
Well and the way that people used to get verified for the media was awful.
News orgs would just contact them and ask to get this person verified so they'd be taken more seriously.
And people running ten thousand falsely verified accounts on a bot chain to influence perception of popular opinion now have to shell out some money to do damage to our social cohesion.
Or for a "Journalist" with bot-like takes to act like they're better than you because papa corporation pulled some strings
Scams are boutta skyrocket
Not even the last twitter execs before Musk followed that rule. Twitter has always played favorites
I usually never pay for something if I can use it for free, but the urge to buy a checkmark and talk about unions using elons image is just... so strong
In fairness, he’d love for you to spend $96 a year just to get demoted by Twitter’s new algorithm
@@Mostlylikeyou1234 whered you get 96?
@@lionobama1397 8$ a month, 12 months in a year, 8$x12= 96$ a year.
@@_dragonstorm_2635 oh damn i thought it was 9 dollars per month
Yall probably subscribe to streamers on twitch to have your comment lost in a wall of text still though, and unlock a few trash emotes that you can get for free with channel points anyway. Thats the same type of chromosome lacking nonsensical money burn as a check mark.
>removes value from something, >expects payment for it. oh come on, this has to be a joke.
slide 8$ otherwise ill remove your verified mark
So Dutch watches Charlie
this is somewhat a good idea if they made it like you pay 8$ a month to keep the badge if you meet the requirements cause that amount is no big deal for an "internet celebrity"
it is a bad idea if average joe can get the badge for 8$
didn't know my favorite airsofter watches charlie sick
@@trashpanda4 no its a terrible idea lmao. "Power to the people. Aslong as they are giving me money!"
After learning about the loan that was needed for him to buy Twitter, I must say it’s been incredible to see a website finally become less profitable than tumblr
I was literally thinking about the time Tumblr did sponsored posts or something and people said that was a bad idea... but this is so much worse.
I knew it!! There was no way he payed that himself
Love that the Saudi government has money in it.
Maybe that was the plan all along
@soled25 I agree. He could've paid it all himself if he really needed to. Having investors means you have other influential people who do not want this company to fail also. People bitch and bitch about how bad twitter is,then elon starts doing something about It and people bitch about that. Dude can't win. At the end of the day if people don't like the app, find a different one or don't use it rite? 🤷
Love that Charlie was like “twitter can’t get any worse and I know everyone will tell me I’m wrong but I can’t be wrong Elon can’t make it worse” and now he’s openly saying he’s been proven wrong almost immediately after that it’s hilarious
But seriously when is he not wrong. About anything. Guy's a tool.
@@HueyTheDoctor He's only gotten worse over the years too. Next couple years are gonna be wild.
@@HueyTheDoctor
You’re a bigger tool for watching him despite not liking him
He is wrong. Its deserved that these mfs who think they special have to pay
Nothing on twitter will change the ADL has already threatened and made elon bow down to them, game over.
Man buys twitter, immediately regets it
Living in New Zealand where almost nobody uses Twitter has made watching this from afar a very entertaining experience.
America’s United States. Truly the earths greatest capitalist and fools.
Depends on your generation, I known a lot of people here who use twitter, and I hate each and every single one of them
No one I know uses twitter either.
Most twitter users were probably driven out way before Elon Musk.
Its funny cus I live in America and my grade 5 teachers from New Zeland and I remember her talking about how trash twitter was back in 2015 lol
What do they use over there mainly. Facebook
Use twitter here in NZ. Except I browse JP twitter for lewds, art and fun and I don't have to put up with dumb English speakers.
im all for this, twitter is a detriment to society, making people leave it is something i can support
Yup. People have acted like a blue checkmark is some sort of virtuous symbol of authority. This should fix it... A bit.
Read up on The Intercept how the government via DHS worked with Twitter to mass censor anyone who disagreed with them.
@UC9Bg_qbM-XBT9_I6efwk-jQ sicko
I know right, twitter is the worst place on the internet
@@ludiba3504 idk man TikTok has been becoming Twitter 2.0 lately they might take the W soon to becoming the absolute worse place for humanity
Hear hear; if anything maybe Elon is trying to slowly murder Twitter on the lowkey. If he is dead serious about the Superfollowers idea, then he's crazier than even his most vehement detractors thought.
Now you can pay $8 to be a literal certified freak, 7 days a week 😂
😅😅😅
You meant ‘liberal certified freak’, no?
good comment
@@prague7706 how about no politics
@@prague7706 dawg what
“He’s not just a regular moron, he’s the product of the greatest minds of a generation, working together with the express purpose of building the dumbest moron who ever lived. And you just put him in charge of the entire facility.”
-PotatOS
Love me a Portal 2 reference.
Seriously tho how tf did people think he would be like the "savior" of Twitter
Celebrity worship is so stupid
@@B0r3Dude they were stupid enough to build him and his crap up so they're also stupid enough to think that
@@B0r3Dude apparently he was going to offer free speech in twitter.. considering he makes the worst ideas (yes, mars colonization is a dumb fucking idea -_-) i don't think it's gonna go well lmao..
@@B0r3Dude Who thinks twitter can be "saved"? It's already swamp. If something worse happens to those people, how is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Making blue checks pointless, I like it
I mean the checkmark system is already bullshit that only gives narcissistic asshats verification who more so use it as a "I'm Special" badge already anyways, and it doesn't matter if you're a popular figure Twitter will just straight up deny you a checkmark if they don't like you or disagree something you've said publicly. This would just make it bullshit in a different way. Besides, I WANNA see Twitter burn. So - you do you Elon, keep steering this ship directly into that rocky reef over there.
Saying "people will only laugh at blue checkmarks" changes nothing, because people already laugh at blue checkmarks.
Also, did any of you guys see media get trolled over the Twitter buyout? Once it was announced Elon was doing lay offs, a bunch of big media journalists rushed over to the main San Francisco offices and interviewed to supposed "engineers" who had just gotten fired. "Rahul Ligma" and "Daniel Johnson". Ligma and Johnson. Ligma. Johnson.
Highlights of the interview:
"I've gotta go touch base with my husband and wife, now if you'll please excuse me."
"If Elon owned Twitter, Michelle Obama and Barack's presidency wouldn't have been possible!" pulls out Michelle Obama's book from his box, suggesting he kept it on his work desk.
Of course you like it, you’re gay for Elon.
To be fair, they already are pretty pointless.
@@evanamundson5800 the moment twitter's "people" started to think verifying someone means supporting is when it became useless...cuz then Twitter took away people's checkmarks, doesnt matter if theyre controversial or a shit person, its supposed to clarify if this bullshit being spewed is from them or a troll
@@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897 I'll tell you what worries me. If anyone can pay to get a checkmark people will start impersonating others or even make scams
This guy heard "if you own twitter you own the world" too many times and started believing he could
That sounds more like the US government ft. DHS leaks
i mean its literally the biggest social media site and can easily dictate and manipulate things like world elections and spread false information as if it hasnt been doing that for a decade now. you really undermining the power and problem of Twitter as a global issue
I hope this is the beginning of the end of Twitter, it won't happen but I hope.
Who has ever said "if you own Twitter you own the world?"
@@informitas0117 idk man once the former ceo finishes his new social media then twitter is for sure dead
As a wise man once said, “If everyone’s super, no one is” But hey I don’t use Twitter so I don’t care. But this is definitely going to go south.
I'm just here because of Charlie
That's like saying no one is human because everyone is.
Honestly this sounds the exact same thing as being a member to a UA-cam channel or sues over on twitch. Will never understand why people waste money to follow strangers on the internet
@@Lawrence_Talbot well, atleast with the two options you presented you chose to support a creator because you like their work. The twitter system isnt even that, unless you love Musk
STOP RIGHT THERE! 🖐👮
theres a clip about a cute kitten on my pa,ge....
help a brother out.
"I think anyone who pays $8 for a check mark is an absolute certified loser" 🤔
Conspiracy theory: He came out with the worst idea first and is going to further modify it to make people feel like he listens to feedback and then arrive at something where everyone thinks "Ok, that's more reasonable" even though if he had introduced it like that in the first place, he'd have gotten pushback for it because it's still bad.
It would make him look like he’s “for the people” and then twitter would b on top
I think removing "Verified Status" from society is a net positive. Verified by who exactly? The filth he just removed from Twitter? Good riddance to verified status IMO. The fact that Charlie says "I wouldn't take a check mark seriously anymore" is hilarious because it suggest he took it seriously before. "Anyone can do it now!" As opposed to only people who are approved by the biased criminals that used to run twitter. What a small brain take.
And that's where Elon fanboys make their move to make him look better
@@YRO. this "bandwagon hater" or "fanboy" bit is getting tired and old. any time you don't join the mob, you're immediatley blowing the balls off the person you simply don't want to burn at the stake. like, there is such a thing as nuance and differing opinion that isn't one extreme or another.
That’s not how to works lol, not certainly to an engineer
This idea sounds like something my grandpa could've thought if he was suddenly put in the command chair of twitter and everyone demanded him an idea to bring in more money
Wassa matta you altaïr?
i dont see how anyone could that its a good idea, not even grandpa. I supported elons free speech twitter too
Elon is probably old enough to be your grandpa
@@JakeInvest free speech to say the n-word 500% more than average?
@@bunny_apocalypse Elon's African bro
Elon Musk needs the extra money to finish building a time machine
Having light saber battles on the backs of Tesla dinosaurs
@Patrick39 you literally play gacha life
@UC6m779NlKIPZb6xHEFWQUbw you madman, Susan will wipe you from existence because of this
@YeaMan bro fr wtf
@DONT READ MY PROFILE PICTURE DON'T EXIST
I'm so happy that you said all of that, there's people that saying that stephen king should not be bothered by this and pay because his rich, just because you're rich doesn't mean that you should have to pay for every dumb thing, and there's people who used the verified thingy and are not rich
"And when everyone's super, no one will be" -Some Disney villain with a good point
"You sly dog, you got me Twitter-monologuing!"
--Elon Musk, prob.
pixar babes pixar
it's pixar actually but yeah
@@warlordofbritannia "You got me Twitlonging!"
Some Disney villain??? How dare you insult syndrome like that
Elon musk charging for checkmarks shows how easily people can buy followers for their own checkmarks lmao
Yeah, buying followers is quite easy... Right now a lot of known people don't have checkmarks for no reason when at the same time strange suspicious people have checkmarks... Checkmarks should be more serious and probably should generate money somehow because significant amount of effort is needed to verify people PROPERLY and ban scammers and bots. Lack of checkmarks doesn't mean lack of verification - people still will be verified internally because such info have to be used to fight with bots and scams in general (so without visible checkmark you probably just won't be prioritized and won't send visible signal to people). How good is this idea from pure "we want less scam" perspective (because there are other arguments as well) will depend on execution because it can potentially make things worse, but at the same time it can make things better especially if they would put effort into tracking and analyzing scams (which will be easier without warning signals like checkmarks). Charlie have no idea what he is talking about, bet there is a chance that he might be right especially in short term (because improvements can take some time)
@@timrim9405 the verification process doesn’t need to be improved even slightly at the moment, though, so the idea there will be 100 verified “The Rock” Twitter accs is a moot one.
A journalist with a handful of followers can have a checkmark, just to gloat about it. It’s a power trip for some people, added to that bot followers. It’s good to see it become undermined.
@@Hibernial yes, charlie doesn't get the point that paying for the checkmarks now and allowing everyone to have it, destroys the sense of superiority of those entitled people, is not really about money since the profit from this stunt is just a few millions
@@Hibernial ah yes because of a few tools you gonna overhaul the entire system
But let see something
The verification system was made to distinguish between the official celebrities, scientists, businesses and other people
What's stopping people from doing that now
Please explain I don't want this to be one sided
Are we in the era of the decline of giant social medias now? I'm stoked
Love to see it
And tumblrs back on it's feet and on the rise. Pog.
Hopefully.
@@gilly_axolotl Are you from twitter?
@@gilly_axolotl because that’s cap lol
this is so hilarious it’s hard not to feel like a lot of this stupidity is conducted, i wonder how this will turn out
This is like taking your antibiotics, but stopping half way through. He's going to knock out some bots that can't or won't pay the $8, but making those that will pay that much stronger.
Ooo what a good analogy
Ong
you forget that people don't just run a single bot, and nobody is going to pay $8 for every single bot
Either way, Twitter would profit off bots
I think people are failing to see that you have to attach a bank account to pay for it. So it would be pretty stupid scamming people if that's on your card.
Im convinced he's bought twitter as a vendetta and he's purposefully going to ruin it
Only Elon Musk would cut his net worth in half to troll. No one else is that stupid.
@@YokiDokiPanic Trump
>ruin twitter
lol, lmao even
People need to stop convincing themselves that Elon’s bad ideas are intentional or just him trolling. Just because he shitposts unfunny memes on his Twitter feed doesn’t mean he is going to buy and then intentionally run into the ground a multi billion dollar company as a “meme”.
@AquaUwU bro has uwu in his name and a piplup pfp yet he still chooses to be an npc (bot moment)
I love how Stephen King became the ambassador for blue check marks everywhere
Best timeline possible.
chad
Imagine actively using Twitter anyway, anyone who is serious on twitter deserves to pay for a checkmark that means nothing and can be easily replicated lmao
I would pay if I wouldnt see bots anymore. I think plenty of people would too. You will still have to go through a verification process if you are celebrity. I cannot believe that people actually think Musk is some dumb retard that doesnt have clue about what he is talking about. You cannot be in 0,000001% and be dumb. World doesnt work like that
@@tonikukoc1451 sure you can, when daddy starts you off right and you pay everyone else to do the work for you lmao
The only reasonable person in the comment section
imagine actively using social media
+ mars colonization is the dumbest idea ever invented
I said it before and I'll say it again:
The worst thing you could ever say when something happens is "Well it can't get any worse than this".
Imagine his whole plan is to buy twitter and run it into the ground so none of us have to deal with it ever again
He practically bankrupted himself from the Twitter deal so yeah that’ll be selfless of him.
That's what he's pretending to want to do to garner PR reputation points from his cult of "edgelords," but he'd never throw away money like that. His goal is endless economic power like every fraudulent billionaire before him. He'll use twitter as a propaganda tool to promote his businesses and boost his dumb ego.
If it is, he'll forever be a saint, no matter what anyone says.
@@Jupa Again he should’ve just taken the Billionaire L vs the multi billion L and further issues. 44 billion to be forced to an L.
If this is God's plan baptize me and call me a Christian because a day in the future without twitter is a day of rapture
Imagine a verified Moist Critikal asking for your runescape account information
If you give him 1,000 gold he'll turn it into 20,000 gold for you! For free!
@@Kennisaurus you s.o.b.!....
I'm in
Then you'd know he's the real deal
*Called by a scammer*
Me: No sir, you are not trimming my armour today!
As someone who doesn't have Twitter watching this is pure entertainment
Ditto❤❤
"Nobody will treat you seriously now if they see you having a checkmark"
As if it wasn't the case already
exactly lmao
Depended on the people really but yeah agree.
I mean it was lol. If you are getting into a beef with like dream vs a beef with like me, dream's fans will attack you while I do not have millions of people behind me
to be fair. Game developer updates were real cause of that checkmark
@@joeywin42 They still will be. What do people not understand about "becoming verified"? You and I can't pose as Nintendo and suddenly put out fake announcements about the next Zelda: "Journey Through Link's Pubic Region". It's hilarious how anyone thinks expanding a service to take in money will somehow make it less successful at weeding out the bad.
I can't believe charlie can still walk after the burger king menu tierlist
😂😂
😅😅😅
Well he is seated throughout the whole video.
It's a greenscreen, he's still on the shitter
This is 5 million times funnier than his SNL appearance
44 billion*
Close
@@sneakymilkman4203 morbillion*
@@Caseoh_Music I honestly didn’t believe I could make such a lethal mistake
to be fair, that's a low bar.
and Charlie was correct, most checkies ended up scammers or theyre straight up ChatGPT bots
This didn’t age well actually.
I can't tell if this is sheer incompetence or if he's intentionally destroying it out of spite. Either way, Twitter getting a stake through the heart is good for society in general
Sabotage job
then they're gonna spill everywhere else
@@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 Imagine if they return to tumblr.
@@ablackbunny3149 oh no...
@@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 then we discriminate them and call them what they are
Yes we need a racial slur for twitter users
He complained so much about bots that he really is saying “you know what? Fuck it, I’ll make bots more convincing”
How so? He literally added a pay wall to checkmarks.
@@bendover9620 Bro? The checkmark is incredibly limited as it stands. This just makes it available to anyone. How did that go over your head?
@@moomgmh it was pretty much available to anyone to begin with. People with 2k followers verified while celebrities with millions weren’t
@@moomgmh it literally catered to a certain accounts… It was literally bad. Stop defending trash
“Bots” i am guessing you guys don’t know how they work but say idiotic statements
Can we appreciate how Elon's saying you have to pay $8 to avoid being scammed
Can we appreciate Sunshine Slowking coming out of the idiot closet
Now you'll see scammers with blue checkmarks.
@@aw98000 Shut
@@aw98000 was that even called for?
@@Polytank1981 stupidity being called out is ALWAYS necessary. Perhaps we, as a society, wouldn't be in the shit situation we are if people weren't so afraid to tell someone else you're being an idiot
Charlie disappears slowly into the mob of outrage and drama
The fact he’s now haggling with the official Garfield account is fucking hilarious.
this is actually genius. he bought twitter so he can put it in a decline and get it shut down
And lost 44 billion in the process. This is also affecting tesla stock price because he’s tied himself so publicly to the company. His stupidity and arrogance is now on show for the world to see
Yeah but why would he do that if it's gonna cost him money??
@@somecomposingfudsa he's literally a real world cartoon character. i don't think he really even cares about the money, he just wants to troll
yeah and then all the nasties will find another social media or make one so they can continue what they were doing...killing twitter doesn't solve the issue it just empowers people to find other ways spread awful stuff
That's the worst idea. If twitter goes down, all the Karen's and toxic people will move to other media
Imagine getting a year-long Twitter verification for Christmas.
Are you crazy? Why save it for christmas? That's only $96 for the entire year, basically a steal.
You would be officially out of the family 👪 🙅❌
IKR it's almost as dumb as giving money to people that sit around and play video games all day.
yeah but even more dumb
Bro talking like he don't make millions from donations
*donating
@h iv? no, we're not lol
It's entertainment, you think that line of job doesn't deserve money ? You may not want to give entertainers money but it's clearly a legitimate job
If Elon’s goal was to absolutely nuke Twitter, he’s accomplishing that goal. 😂
I know people on twitter would move to other platforms, but i’d be pretty happy if twitter was nuked
Well thank you Elon. He’s truly a genius bc twitter sucks
@@Pissbaby991 if anything he's losing his own money, twitter will eventually survive, not him if he keeps being an idiot
Shuddupnig
That will just create a mass exodus instead of containing them there.
this is the biggest brain play i’ve seen. You turn the check mark into a pay to win item and then introduce the Battle Pass of different check marks and effects they can have.
all powered by the blockchain babyyy!
An energy system that you need gems to refill.
CAPITALISM… INNOVATION THAT EXCITES
Yes, I'm all for twitter going full on microtransactions and pay to win. Either the site implodes or the twatterati shell out exorbitant amounts of cash in a desperate attempt to stay relevant
@AquaUwU bro what the fuck is wrong with these bots
I've never used Twitter. So all this is just entertaining to watch people freak out.
Yeah I'm just sitting back with a tub of popcorn 🍿
For reals. More tha half of the comments are pissed and are nit-picking Elon's actions because at the end of the day, they are just pissed he wanted to remove political biases.
@@jessejames5335 Wrong, but okay. Lol
Same. Lovely chaos
@@WolfyboiRTCT k
Cool, now pay $8 Charlie
Charlie has single handedly removed the word "moist" from being the moist hated word in the English language. A true gamer achievement!
Lol
@Link to the clip could say the same to you buddy. 🤣😂🤣
@Link to the clip interesting
@Link to the clip spamming everywhere npc
@Link to the clip how is this comment 32 minutes ago, but the original one is 27 minutes ago
“We need to pay the bills somehow. Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers”
Translation: “I bought a company that does not run a profit as it currently is, please pay my bills for me”
Facts
@@hilariousactually Dude cope away with that… You are from twitter lol
@Jack John I don't have Twitter but ok, I just thought they were making a good point lol
Going to Mars is the most stupid idea
@@George-pl7eu I agree
“his neurons are working overtime” im dead 💀💀💀
niɡɡer 💀☠️
nah im more dead at the replies 💀
So funny... If you're a fucking idiot?
Jeez the bot.
Boston dynamics make better robot that work, his Hyperloop idea is old form 1950s and a metro train would've done the job but he can't profit form public transit, his rocket gotten nowhere and it is really space worthy, his self driving cars crashing into things or go offline unexpectedly, his cyber truck got nowhere this guy like to think he l Tony Stark but he more like 13 year with a an ego
I love how I'm watching this video the same exact day Charlie posted the video admitting he bought twitter blue 😅😅😅
so did I 💀💀💀
that makes 3 of us
They should make a system where you pay monthly to remove someone else's blue checkmark.
nice comment steal
@@sekaihokai 2 people can have the same idea my guy.
That's an even worse idea than elon's idea. Wow.
@@piccoloatburgerking ok skyrim addict
@@dRac_XII Lol.
And I thought this couldn’t have gone worse. I swear to God, Twitter is like a constantly opening and closing Pandora’s box of the internet.
@cplazarus hi I'm Barack Obama I'm running for president again. Give me $3,000.
It’s not worse tbough
No, that was Tumblr. When Yahoo opened the Tumblr box, it let loose a wave of infected furries, otherkin, and just outright freaks that have been infecting sites (especially Twitter) ever since.
He's not trying to stop bots, he's monetizing them. If the bots double in number but start making him money, that'll be a great success in his book. Hell, they may become his most solid source of revenue from that accursed site.
Monetize your haters. Consequently that probably means some bot creators will move elsewhere since paying for overhead is an expense.
Wait you think bot farms are going to shell out 8$ a month PER BOT?
Lol you are a >on
do you think someone running bots is going to pay 8 dollars per bot every month to keep them verified? They could i just dont know how effective that would be for the guy paying all the money
Bro if you think bot farmers care about verification, you're wrong
Honestly its good to have the blue check as a payed thing cause it show just how stupid it was in the first place.
Not on twitter, but why was the checkmark stupid before?
It was only used to show that a user is the real person right?
It was to verify a public figure was who they say they are. It was very useful to avoid people lying
@@Shizzy5321 But now they are moving the same verification to be a simple text with the blue checkmark being a cosmetic item. I see this as a win since we get so many intital blue checkmarks thinking that they are better than anyone.
@@ipman3249 That would be fine. However now people with blue checkmarks will get prioritised replies which, while not worth 8 pounds, is against the free speech he is going for.
@@Shizzy5321 oh yea forgot bout the highlighted replies
I truly end up believing the more money somebody gets the less common sense they end up having and bonus points if they end up growing up rich.
Oh that's not your opinion,that's just been scientifically proven already.
You've got a point 🤔
🤑🤑🤑
@@abuttnugget6753 link to the research?
@@nickchapman3199 any article that mentions Elon Musk
7:05 Sorry Charlie but you’re 100% wrong… we constantly see people pay for completely worthless things online because they’re desperate for online approval and validation. (i.e. Instagram likes and followers, UA-cam views, likes and subs, Facebook likes, etc… it quite literally happens all the time and this will be no different.)
Well a good guy once said: "It's not about money. It's about sending a message."
i like how you think Squilliam Fancyson
The message Elon is sending is: "I'm a scummy money hungry soon to be ex-billionaire piece of shit, who exploits the incels that worship me."
But we already knew that.
But what's the message?
Elon musk is a horrible businessman? Because Yes he really is.
@@RandomSwiftie13 Exactly! He's terrible. He's probably broke af.
@@RandomSwiftie13 yeah man has had no success in the business world wow!
I come from the current day when Charlie actually has the bad subscription he is so confused about the exsistance of
I love watching the downfall of Zuckerberg and Musk at the same time, it’s like they’re challenging each other to see which platform can reach its downfall first
any% bankruptcy speedrun
lmao if you actually believe musk is in a "downfall" you've been chugging too much of that koolaid. get back on reddit dummy im sure theyll tell you what to think
And plus, NFTs are long gone now.
If you think Musk is in a "downfall" you are seriously mistaking.
Where’s Musks downfall? He’s trolling the shit out of you retards
As someone who does not use Twitter I find this entire situation funny as hell
Edit: I also can’t help but feel like he’s trolling.
Edit2: I should add I’m not a musk supporter personally I pay very little attention to what he does unless he’s mentioned in a video I’m watching
twitter is PXXX
Yeah I honestly don't care about all of this since I don't use Twitter, but personally I think it's a bad idea and it's funny seeing the Musk supporters acting like this is anything but dumb.
It is definitely up there, next best thing to happen for chaos after Trump getting re elected.
It'd actually be funny if he was but he did just sink $44,000,000,000 into this shit, he's not going to abandon twitter cause it's a money sink he's willingly took onboard.
Instead he'll take advantage of people's addictions to it and a lack of any competitor, and just charge for benign shit like he's already doing.
People need to stop convincing themselves that Elon’s bad ideas are intentional or just him “trolling”. Just because he shitposts unfunny memes on his Twitter feed doesn’t mean he is going to buy and then intentionally run into the ground a multi billion dollar company as a “meme”.
The worst part about this is that it will normalize it for other companies
Good
That or it’ll do the exact opposite
Going to Mars is the most stupid idea
I just think it’s funny it’s these multimillionaire celebs like Stephen King bitching about lying $20 a month when they $200 a night on dinner.
well . . . if it works out it will
the blue tick is an ego thing, celebrities should be pairing more just to retain it
its not an ego thing the entire reason they made it was to stop people from impersonating public figures
I just find it funny he thinks us peasants want a checkmark. It's like being a high school student and then one day the principle just comes out and says "alright if you pay me extra money I'll put Mr. or Ms. next to your name in the yearbook."
He doesn't, he's just giving people the opportunity to be on the same level as any celeb.
a lot of people buy digital assets like NFTs and in-game skins. This has no value in the beginning, but due to social phenomenon, it became valuable.
@@ogzombieblunt4626 It’s like giving peasants a crown for a few bucks so they can look like a king. It would be more fair taking all crowns from every king to be equal then letting lunatics act like someone they aren’t.
@@NikaSaurusRahwr
Except its a service and people pay for services, the rich people are paying twitter so advertizers aren't controlling what can be said. This is the best option, you must have never run a business if you think twitter can keep losing money indefinitely 🤣. No such thing as a free lunch my friend
@@NikaSaurusRahwr
If it was 'free' like on FB then its not free. Advertizers take your info, that is a price that consumers pay for a 'free' service. If you payed 8 dollars you're just paying up front and ensuring data security.
To be honest it makes it just as easy to spot scammers and idiots now as they'll be the only ones with the checkmarks. The legit people and smart people will be the ones without it. It's going to be like an immediate badge of saying "im an idiot, please ignore me"
It already was a mark of "I'm an idiot, please ignore me."
@@DrazCo88 wth
Moistcr1tikal has one, so what now?
Maybe that's the point
@@lucascaiah what about it? Most people with checkmarks on Twitter have the worst takes imaginable.
You know what? That's probably his idea 😂
I somehow knew it would end this way: Twitter would willingly burn itself down to ashes before they would ever offer an edit function.
There is an edit function now, currently for the Twitter blue people, but will soon be available to everyone. This happened within days of him taking over.
@@iROMine Twitter Blue launched the Edit button on Oct 6.
Musk's purchase of Twitter concluded Oct 27.
So edit button did not happen "within days of him taking over"
@@pStabs it still took a multibillion company with thousands of employees over a year to make an edit button
It was always burning itself…
I literally saw a verified elon musk trolling when this video went up, I don't see how you didn't find it.
Suuuuure you did.
@@HarpsiFizz Just because you aren't perceptive enough to see something without it being spoon fed to you by a youtuber doesn't mean it's not true. ChrisWarcraft is now suspended for said tweet and account name.
If he want a subscription service, he can add other features like long form video/audio, custom page layout or somthin. It should be a service that would let companies have a better way to interect with their followers. When it comes to verification, that should be allowed for EVERYONE. Its a way to know you are who you say you are.
He needs to find a way for people to create content that's not 250 characters long, then monetize it.
he did actually say you can upload longer videos and can even monetize it
So you want MySpace basically
Except a lot of times its wrong or fucked up. Verification has always been a dumb system.
No. His reach isn't something he "should" allow everyone to "have." That's why you don't own any businesses and he just bought a 44 billion dollar one. If you don't like it, don't pay for it.
At least Twitter is gonna be less depressing to talk about from now on. We're in goofy town now.
niɡɡer 💀☠️
This is quickly becoming the Steamed Hams of social media:
"Free speech? No, I said fee speech! Mhmmm, fee speech!"
nah brother that laughter soon gonna turn into a frown real fast. I like characters and funny people like trump. But when they on top, it always ends really horrible
"You call free speech 'fee speech?'"
"Yes, it's a classist dialect"
"Uh-huh, what class?"
"Ohhhne percent(?)"
"Really, because I'm part of the one percent and I've never heard anyone refer to fee speech."
"Not just the one percent, no. It's a one percent of the one percent expression."
"I see."
@@tryarsenic
The idea of reality TV star Donald Trump being president was at one time funny...I miss that time
I love how you explain the details so people who don’t know what you are talking about will eventually know
Profiting off of peoples ego's is a smart move on his part, a truly spiteful move.
Every single person saying they'll never pay it are gonna be first in line, watch. Charlie too will likely pay for it. He'd be stupid not to...
Elon Musk is one of the world's greatest specialists in Ego, thanks for the astronomical amounts of navel gazing he has in his portfolio. He knows very damn well what he's doing.
@@zachariah7114 why would it be stupid to not pay for it
@@willfakaroni5808 Tim Pool made a video on how it actually looks like, especially the premium $20 one. It fixes verification (and more than likely, prevents duplication of names that scammers can take advantage), adds tools like personalization (hints at longer tweets), edit button, etc., Tweet priorization and reply prioritization, etc.
I like the idea just to remove all those pretenders who thought they are contributing to society by having blue checkmark rants, when now, they have to think twice before posting because they paid to a checkmark with a name attached to them, and people will now have the gall to call them out of their useless takes because they paid just to have such useless take
@@skybattler2624 or they can just pay for it, no one is thinking twice when posting just because they paid 20 dollars
The only moist critikal we will be able to trust is the one without a check mark 😂
‘The checkmark couldn’t get worse’ then somebody had to hold Elon’s beer
He's really done a steep dive since buying twitter. Like, at worst he'd go a couple weeks between doing/saying something stupid.. Now it's almost every day lol
The guy's an idiot, everyone should be aware of this right now
I think he’s trying to destroy Twitter. Instead of hitting the delete button and having the instant retaliation that would inevitably come, he’s going to squeeze it dry until the community itself destroys Twitter by leaving.
He's been falling off even before thinking of buying twitter
@@muk0n Ah yes the robot they are developing is falling off. What kind of delusions did this comment section go to again?
sure but thats the whole point, to take away the 'grandeur' of having a blue checkmark to lord over people on a social media platform.
complaining about it is missing the whole point.
That’s just a way to ignore genuine criticism
I'm shocked they didn't offer a way to pay a one time fee to expedite getting the blue checkmark mark first. That at least seems more reasonable than an $8/month fee to get it and not lose it if you miss a payment. Always make gradual changes. Don't float a $20 plan and immediately reduce it to $8 thinking people could somehow think that is saving them $12 per month.
Yup that would have made more sense.
Tbf there are things like taht on UA-cam where you pay month to support creators that aren’t even any obligation to create content consistently and you get little to nothing in return
May as well extort a few bucks out of whoever runs all them fake blue checks tbh.
@@SoggySlopster Yeah but that's paying to support a creator, buyers know full well what the purpose of that money is, and it's going to creators not a mega-corporation and richest billionaire....This check mark thing is just a capitalist gate-keep to a not so "premium" service. Which will only serve to make bots/misinformation worse NOT better.
Yeah but think about who gets blue checkmarks, exclusively famous (and usually wealthy) people. So the only people this change would effect are people who quite literally wipe their ass with $8 and don't even bat an eye. I don't see why people are getting outraged at this
He's beyond parody at this point. Him playing Wario on SNL was pretty much sanctified divination of the future. He's never once had to make actual money-making decisions at ANY of his companies, so he has no clue how any of it works. People compare him to Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne, when at best he's Glomgold from Duck Tales.
Yeah says someone that knows nothing substantive... are you saying he doesn't allocate resources as CEO? That would be a bold claim considering his companies valuations and execution.
@@ogzombieblunt4626 Yea, he allocates resources, just see as he was forced to actually by twitter XD.
If he was an actual CEO instead of self proclaimed, he would know how to read contracts instead of getting scammed by them. What a shill.
Ok old man 😂😂😂
@@jironamos7650
Can you clarify exactly how he was scammed? He offered to buy Twitter at the price he ultimately payed... is that how you define a scam?
He's Gob Bluth.
"I would not take a checkmark from anyone seriously."
You mean, you did before? I thought it was common to disregard checkmarks in any case.
It's an indicator of terminal brain damage
Don't know if it wasn't at any point in that cesspits existence
Charlie paying for the checkmark to this day. Elon won.
Hollowing out Twitter/making checkmarks seethe is a good thing. These people need a break from the internet.
It's just busting open the spider's egg sack. When they nuked kiwifarms those freaks just moved over to 4chan. It's not a real fix.
@Patrick39 There’s no fixing stupidity that takes the form of malfeasance if individuals who are activists are going to keep being activists. But there’s still such a thing as having standards for buying up an estate by pushing squatters off the premises.
Majority don't give a shit. They're just making fun of the idea. Anyone who cares will just pay the $8.
It just makes the whole point of the verified account pontless. People will start to distrust the checkmark, and by definition it means "verified" if you can pay for verification, then you are not being "verified" based on anything. if everyone is suspicious about checkmarks, then checkmarks become redundant
Also, Stephen King comparing himself to Enron is the funniest joke I've heard in a week.
Enron is the best company in the world
Say what you will about Elon but Stephen King is a massive tool as well.
@@vanbogan3712 Oh absolutely, he thinks he's just as important as the fall of Enron.
I think it was a figure of speech.
But also Stephen King is one of the most popular authors to have ever existed; so I think he can afford to have a bit of an ego.
@@ethanbosley4628 He's also a bad take machine. It's always funny to point and laugh at him.
I don't understand what is the problem with making paid feature? Do you want him to sale your data instead for the money like Facebook? Remember no free lunch in the world
lmao he's already selling your data and he still will. Imagine being this braindead
@@GamerSlayer5000 you talking about musk when you say he already sale your data ?
@@mohammedalmahdiasad6832 yes idiot it's how Twitter makes money, its one of their main revenue sources.
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one.
With such a change, checkmarks are used for companies and massively popular influencers, not 'small time' individuals.
I would actually understand a much more exorbitant fee at that rate... $100 - $500 a month for verification means it's marketed to corporations like Wal-Mart and wealthy influencers such as Lebron James and other such celebrities' with deep pockets.
$20 put it in an awkward spot where it's low cost relatively, but also not very exclusive.
Pricing it at $8 means that the 'premium' checkmark is diluted and a cheap commodity - but also is an insult to average users who just want to post memes and read up on news.
Having tiered payment methods for versatile prioritization while also locking in accounts behind a surcharge (3/mo down payment) can essentially turn the site into a layered freemium model where spam accounts have to pay dividends to compete in feeds and will lose the value of their down payment when they are taken down quickly.
It makes sense on paper - but that's just it... making sense on paper and making sense in a living, breathing market are two different things.
just letting you know, it's not insulting to make something affordable for people.
@@naryosh_ yes but what IS insulting is significantly dropping the price he was originally demanding after bartering the monthly cost down with a wealthy celebrity, back-tracking to try to market it as “affordable”, and then claim it’s for the people.
@@Kdkdleeme he was literally making fun of him not bartering lmaooooo
@@Kdkdleeme 'oh you a rich leftist millionaire can't pay 20? then here's my original plan for 8, thanks for making yourself look like a Champaigne socialist
@@Kdkdleeme the 20 dollars thing was a rumor lol. Y’all reach so hard to shit on this man.
First Mark Zuckerberg spends god knows how much money on the Metaverse and now this, simply astonishing.
Zuckerberg: "I will give 10 billion dollars to whoever makes me the metaverse."
He proceeds to glance over to every programmer who can do it because they have an IQ above -5.
Suckerberg: "No... not you guys. YOU OVER THERE! You're hired!"
He says as he points to a half-eaten goldfish.
I love it when good things happen to bad people
I'd cry if I thought of all the things that could've been done with all that money.
Honestly I see Stephen King and all the hollyweed losers leaving as a win
Stupidity billionaires is running high!
I love that this tweet finally showed people that elon is not nearly as bright as people make him to be (including himself)
It shows he does in fact have Asperger's. Sure he isn't devine but considering him any where below top 5% in logical reasoning is delusional.
Idk how would u a random person on the internet or charlie who makes less than 0.1 percent than elon musk think that you are one to judge the richest dude on the planet - who made all of his money from ideas..
@@andrenal3609 he’s rapidly losing his money
@@andrenal3609 He made all his money from his family's child-slave run cobalt mines and apartheid era policy. The only patent he owns is the charging port for teslas, he just pretends to have ideas and manipulates the stock market frequently enough to get rich
I don't get it, you pay $8 for verified check mark, but that doesn't remove the verification process which you will provide necessary documents in order to be verified, I'm not verified in Twitter so I'm just guessing. You cannot scam people as you cannot provide document for that person, and changing your name while being verified breaks the validation and I think removes your verified status. I don't even know if they allow you to change your name if you're verified.
It’s funny how the only ones complaining about the blue check mark subscriptions are rich people 😂
not rich, dumb idea, elon is losing billions of dollars and it rules
@@hamboningmaster not saying it’s a good idea I’m just pointing how only the rich people that are making millions a year complaining about 20 dollar subscription like God forbid if they ever lend any money to help a company that they use daily and it’s not like they’re in a financial situation
@@obi-wankenobi1545 Only rich people complaining? what are you talking about? are you just blind?
@@hamboningmaster Dude you’re missing the point of my comment. I’m just pointing out that it’s funny how rich people are complaining about the subscription but 20 dollars is so insignificant to them. I’m not even making an argument here just pointing it out.
@@obi-wankenobi1545 not a good point
Part of me wonders if he’s just trying to destroy Twitter for the fun of it.
I 100% support the brutal death of twitter
No. He spent 33 billions of his own money(other come from investors). He is trying to turn it into money printing machine, speedrunning destruction of it so hard, Tumblr is taking notes.
Charlie’s thumbnails are looking more and more AI generated everyday and it’s not even his fault the world is just descending into 780p chaos
You can thank Open AI and DALL-E for that
i really like it it reminds me of those clickbait sponsored content things on the bottom of website that lead to slideshows and shit
"power to the people!, only for 8$ per month."
This is literally something you would see a GTA game make satire of yet somehow THIS IS FUCKING REAL
Gta is about a capitalist society, and we are in one too. So expect to see similarities.
Satire is done well when reality ends up doing the same thing but goofier.
You fail to realize how this is going to help Twitter.
You realize only Blue Check "royalty" like Millionaire Charlie and billion dollar companies will be charged $8, right?
You dont need a blue check to say whay you want. If anything, it makes the millionaires and billionaires pay for us peasants
its a really really good change. whats the problem?
I LOVE the thumbnail to this video. It reminds me of that one vine of the kid with 2 spoons over his eyes..."What are you doing?"
"Mmmmmmblocking all the haters..." LUL