and they made the corporate ones gold, like corporations are more important than the real public figures as souless as politicians are, its the corporations who they are buying their souls
Yeah and giving it to the rich for free as well. That's how he got most things in his life. Something I had to learn myself... you only get free stuff as a child and if you have money, if you're poor nobody cares
Twitter has been filled with death and gore videos/images far longer than people realize, it's just that Twitter automatically blacklisted them and kept them out of the For You pages when they still had a reliable filter.
@@prezzeruk4054 The difference is people dont talk about those three as much as everything else, tbf tho its prolly cuz theyve been doing it so long, like everyone has known goobisoft is a goofy goober pos company for some years now and EA has been awful since forever.
bruh titanic best room have a really classy services and you don't know it'd sink, twitter's verified room is like a toilet with cesspool of shit and piss in it and you are paying for that shit while also knowingly waiting to die, not a good comparison lol
@@maxthibodeau3627 They’re just trading material like that out in the open apparently. Obviously I reported the shit out of every account I found including the ones interacting with the videos. I have no idea if they ever actually got banned and even if they did, I don’t know if anything stops them from just making new accounts.. Holy mother of God is correct.
Imagine being a small business and being told you have to pay the equivalent to your company’s building unit rent to be verified on social media. My jaw dropped when you talked about the gold mark..
I'm pretty sure any business can afford this Edit: many people replied to me saying that I don't know how businesses work, they're probably right and this can effect small businesses and leave big ones untouched, so I admit it's a bad idea
I quit Twitter months ago and I'm so glad I did. I honestly feel better. Sometimes you don't realize how horrible and toxic something is until you get away from it.
@@iDontUse4chan No thats not the issue. If politics literally did not exist they would still be toxic. People on twitter do not think and just yell at each other. Reading comprehension? Not a thing on twitter
as an artist on twt, polls aren’t useless, especially for artists who make products like figurines, clothing and stuffed animals etc, it’s the only way to really gauge what our audience wants. yeah we can use off site polls but we shouldn’t have to
this. 💯 also as an artist on twt as well, i hate how in this ongoing "twitter is slowly sinking" conversation people never thought of the artists and other indies who has their engagement hurt by changes Elon made to the platform.
Twitch literally bans peoples accounts permanently when they get mugged or robbed or worse on stream, so they've got it going pretty good, but Elon on the other hand...
Based on what people are saying, people can only keep their check marks by paying, so in a way they are still all paying for Twitter. Ppl like Lebron James are making it a point to say they're not paying for shit
You can still use external polls. I get that you're an artist, so tech might be confusing, but you can still use polls on Twitter. Just not the Twitter polling software. But this is more about your feelings than the facts, right?
The loss of polls is gonna suck for the fandom/writer side of twitter because many writer accounts use those to interact with their communities to do choose-your-own-adventure style threads and things like that
@@ettaetta439 I suppose the other user was assumming Elon was thinking that removing poll interaction without Twitter Blue might encourage more people to get Twitter Blue. It’s just that I feel like this is just a company shooting itsself in the foot cause besides people with serious ego. The Twitter Blue stuff just is not worth anything. Like it doesn’t even go to a creator it goes to the company.
normally when people say that they're talking about how being poor and not being able to afford healthcare can put you in bad health which in turn makes you need more expensive healthcare and other related basic needs. i don't think that really applies here because a gold checkmark isn't a necessity for like, anyone at all
@@martinconneally8756 dude, i’m not sure if you realize this but there’s a big difference between million dollar companies and the local bakery down the street who works their ass off to stay in business. starting a business costs a lot of money, yeah, but the example given still works put. these people do not have an extra thousand to blow yet companies and businesses who make millions, to whom a thousand dollars is more worthless than a penny, get it for free.
The fact that they took away text message two-factor authentication blew my mind. I can’t properly secure my account unless I pay a monthly fee. It’s incredibly stupid.
Whats more stupid is paying for 2fa for bot accounts and being upcharged by Tmobile because they know they can get away with it. I agree taking away 2fa was bad for the avg user but if your company is losing money and other companies are taking advantage of you this is the only option.
@@LordZanas iirc it's not that they're gonna lock it until you remove SMS 2FA; they're just gonna lock it period like the warning was straight up "remove this _now_ or you may get locked out forever if you ever get logged out"
@Jaiden Animations Should Starve Herself ⸜⁄ logan buddy, it’s ok sometimes dads don’t come back. that doesn’t mean you need to be a nazi ok youtube and wish for other creators to die
rip to the art community of twitter who use it as a platform to get commissions and such, or who use polls to get a read on what their audience wants and etc
Why? They can still use it as a platform to sell, and still use (external) polls. Nothing has changed that would affect them. Oh, right. This is about your feelings, and not about the reality of things.
@Nothing To See Here This is the opinion of someone who knows absolutely nothing about the art side of Twitter. In reality, as time goes on, smaller artists get less and less exposure and traffic from an algorithm that pushes posts away from the top and shadowbans people at a whim based on extraordinarily arbitrary criteria. NSFW artists suffer the most.
is it ready concluded artists don't have $8 or have a moral objection to paying? isn't that a business expense? I mean at least for being recommend they kind of have to. the polls issue is pretty dumb because it will really limit the usefulness but there are plenty of ways to gauge interest. theyre not going to gab (does that even exist?) Twitter users already cancelled all the competition, ridiculed anyone for using them. great work.
Immediately after joining, he stripped out the teams responsible for keeping bots off the platforms. There's a graph floating around that shows the massive uptick in accounts immediately after doing this.
I get multiple bots in my DMs everyday. Previously, it used to be 1 or 2 a week. But Elon says he got rid of the bots and millions of people believe him. It doesn’t take much to notice it’s worse than ever before. They ignore reality because they want to like him so bad. It’s great if he improved their experience in certain ways, but let’s not pretend everything is perfect & peachy now.
My inbox is flooded with DMs from bots these days. I never delete my message requests and I started getting messages from bots on October 27th, literally the same day Elon took over and fired all of those employees.
I’m still getting followed by bots on the daily. I know they aren’t real because each page for them is just two pictures of a hot lady and links to sites that’ll give my computer a virus.
Going on twitter recently has actually been so detrimental for my mental health specifically due to Charlie's comment on the death and gore videos. Those are so graphic and disturbing I can't stop thinking about them until days after, and the fact that they're being force fed to me and others via the for you page is just disgusting. I go on twitter to get a few laughs and look at some memes, not to be depressed.
Don't forget Twitch, they all seem to be catching Ls in a manner not yet seen before. It's like they're all trying to actively frustrate their customer base into leaving.
@@Xadaj127 if the CEO doesnt want the job ill take it. I wont be good at it and it would go broke in a week because I'd listen to the community but Id still run it
I distinctly remember how Elon was comparing Twitter to a Town Meeting/town square where anyone can have an equal voice, but since he has taken over it has been anything but. You pay to have a voice in his ideal Twitter.
@Just Some Guy With A Mustache Tell me you're an incel without telling me you're an incel. You want a fantasy reality where you saying a thing is on the same as someone who is well known by everyone.
@@ombra711 So are you saying you think it shouldn't be equal? You're allowed to have that opinion but it doesn't really dispute what the guy was actually responding to. Most people can make a bit of money and buy a badge if they want it, but most people can't just become famous, thus it's a bit more equal. I think both systems are stupid and I wish twitter would just die, but it is what it is.
Do you even know what an incel is? Maybe instead of insulting people you could try to tell them why their statement is wrong by giving legit reasons, instead of calling them something that isn't even remotely related to their comment.
the fact that elon has been making certain decisions about the site based on twitter polls and is now restricing them to blue subscribers says a LOT about his views on free speech lmao
@@RyuFitzgerald You are the definition of a bot. You have no purpose, no goal. Just a bot going through life defending elon left and right in hopes he lets you suck his dick. he won't, but a bot like you can't do anything else.
Bots may be a problem but they’re also just his excuse so it looks like he’s doing something helpful when he charges people to do things that were always free.
On art twitter, this is devastating, losing polls as well kind of blows, but at least there are alternatives. Unfortunately, putting a link in a tweet hinders its visibility, so outside poll sites hurt you to use.
Visibility rules suck. You can get penalties for not “sticking to a subject” and you can get the most severe penalties for ACCIDENTALLY MISSPELLING A WORD OR USING UNRECOGNIZED WORDS
Which I hate, because it defeats the purpose of the platform, I swear anytime I upload a vid or link out to my channels it just fucks off number wise. I'll make a video upload it, it hits.. 1000 views if it's click bait, maybe.. 200 if not, I upload a png image, 180k views 2k comments likes etc etc, it's fucking stupid. It goes to like a 100th of the people
I think its worth noting that hes doing the twitter poll thing because of when he made a twitter poll asking if he should step down and everyone said yes, so he made a second one hoping to "evade bots" and EVEN MORE people said yes. Then he said that the bots had clearly taken over and he wouldn't be stepping down, so he was going to make it so only verified people can vote on polls
@@thebananas6483 the ironic part is that bots do exist, but he's failed to provide evidence that the people that said "yes" were bots, whereas if you go to any page, UA-cam channel, Facebook group, or subreddit that is dedicated to praising their lord and savior Elon, it is rife with bots and retards that have the thought process of a bot, abd tgey are often indistinguishable. Nothing but the sane tropes and preprogrammed responses to everything. "To The Moon" , "FUD", "Lambos", "Elon endorsed this [insert shitcoin here]" , "were going to Mars soon" even though he can barely launch a rocket that doesn't explode and constantly ignored his engineers when they pointed out flaws, and countless other shit like that. Literally NPC like behavior, which is ironic given that they love calling any detractors, no matter how solid and reasonable their arguments, "bots" and "NPCs"
that yellow badge change is the most elitist elon musk decision ever lmao 😂 rewarding the rich by giving handouts and making it harder for the underdog
2:43 Actually, the extension that tells you who’s paying for Twitter Blue still works. ELon only changed the wording, not the actual code behind it. Man essentially went to the CoD wiki and tried to troll by removing the game title parentheses from every weapon, but was too stupid to also change the links to their correct pages
they can just update it if you point out the mistake. He's prob going to fire like 10 more engineers cuz of that mistake since it hurt his ego, but still.
Love that Twitter has to keep backtracking on whether they wanted the verified checkmarks to be separate from blue subscribers, even thinking about green checks. It's so funny
Elon - "We need to battle impersonation" Also Elon - *Makes it harder to spot impersonators* Elon again - "Guys we really need to fix this" Twitter - *Visible confusion*
And then there's people like me who don't think it's a problem until they realize they've already blacklisted those terms ages ago and that's the reason why their feed isn't full of gore and nude images.
Used twitter for the first time in ages like a week ago, saw a vid of a robber fumbling with his gun and dropping it, thought "oh that's kinda funny what else is on this account". The very next thing I see is a guy getting popped in the head execution style like damn bro
They have a major problem with that. There are popular accounts that are devoted to it. They also need to get the freaking CP out of there. I cant tell you how many times I’ve had to report accounts for spreading it. Only for them to come back again.
It seemed like the algorithm went to crap when Elon first purchased Twitter and fired everyone. I think he basically made Twitter completely algorithm dependent. That’s why my “for you” is outdated by days or even months. Posts are less tailored to my activity and I started seeing more gore/NSFW material. Yesterday, I saw a man literally burn alive in a hot air balloon while his daughter jumped from five stories up. No idea how it was allowed and didn’t have a NSFW blur.
Love how you likened the gold badge to a coin. I remember when Elbow Muskrat first introduced it, the badge was flat colour and a ton of Aussies started calling it the "piss tick".
@@warlordofbritannia Who would have guessed a manbaby spoiled since his first birth yet so self unconscious that he calls himself a "self made billionaire" went on his way to not follow his word😮😮
@@warlordofbritannia Wait indeed Americans are on a streak, first they elect a complete moron, now they elect a senile old man that is controlled behind the scenes Matter of time before some big corpo guy is elected and makes the USA even more a decentralized capitalist state than it is now
Chill soy boys. His team even banned me and I was going full centrist. Eliza blue was a big contribute to some bans I think. So hold your soy horses a little more. I wouldn't be surprised if he merged his companies and that could work. He could locate it to one area. Space x area. Easy $
Charlie last point resonated with me. I am 32 years old, never used or signed up for Twitter and it hasn't affected my life or my business. If you see the value, but cannot afford it, then I get why you would be upset, but otherwise Twitter isn't the site that comes to mind when thinking promotion of a company. Take that 1000$ a month and invest it into ADs and paid promotions on UA-cam or Google, you'll get way more value then your Twitter account with a few hundred followers and a check mark. This is the internet, there is a lot of competition and value that can be gained from 1000$, plus no one is forcing you to stay on Twitter or use it.
"Imagine buying a Twitter Checkmark, thats hilarious!" "Bro I swear I didn't pay for my checkmark, I had it before twitter blue existed!" "Show me your bank statements within the past month right now to prove it" It'd be wild if this were to even happen lol
Man, if billionaires could buy and control physical things like paper you wouldn’t be able to erase letters or would be locked within a word cap. I’m kinda glad and hope that they just stick with worthless things like twitter to ruin and destroy
Honestly I think it's a great thing that Elon Musk is destroying Twitter, it's such a toxic platform that it shouldn't exist (well, the community is, not Twitter))
it has the most people using twitter in a long time time, and they aren't wasting tons of money and is self sufficient. What about that is driving it further into the ground?
i had that gore issue as well on my for you page. it was tagged under "because you're interested in esport" or something, then it showed a robber getting stabbed 10 times by the clerk. makes it even more absurd, i don't even interact with esports at all on twitter.
That robber deserved it. Dude even said you can take the cash but leave the change in the full tips bucket but he got greedy and hopped over the counter. FAFO
@@maineiacman nobody gives a shit about who deserved what. the complaint here is that op doesn't want to see graphic videos in his timeline but twitter keeps showing it to him.
I bet that sooner or later someone will make an extension so that you can see who actually earned the checkmark and who bought one just like for the dislikes on UA-cam
@@prodbylukee It actually already exists kind of. A while ago someone made an extension that replaces paid checkmarks with the nerd emoji and even now it still differentiates between legacy and paid blue, despite the changes :)
I honestly thought they did this on April first so they could reverse it by claiming it was a prank if there was enough backlash, but nah they just kept that shit 😂
I had seen someone mention how twitter right now is like the part in Portal 2 where Wheatley gains control of the facility and starts tearing it apart.
Yeah but that’s like what 5% of his net worth? You all thinking he really gives a shit about it is most funny. Tesla, spaceX, starlink, and neuralink are his primary focus. Twitter is just a tax write off.
My new year’s resolution was to delete twitter and not redownload and i thought it was kinda a lazy one at the time but it turns out i’m a lot happier without it!
Getting rid of bots by blocking both bots and actual users from the for you page would be the like emergency responders setting a building on fire to handle a hostage situation. Yeah you got rid of the targets but at a cost that defeats the purpose of even addressing the problem in the first place
Each day I am reminded how lucky and happy I am for never joining Twitter. As for the recent changes, it's yet another scheme by Musk in his never ending quest to recoup the money he blew on buying Twitter (spoiler: he never will get that money back). The situation reminds me of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune right after he took Arrakis from House Atriedes: Once the attack commenced, Duke Leto ordered a direct attack on Ghedi Prime's spice stores, wiping out all of the money the Baron had been saving up for the invasion. This forced the Harkonnens to be stuck on Dune harvesting back all that they had lost. Or, in the Baron's words, the only thing he needs after their victory is income and they need to squeeze hard to get it. Musk, similarly, is squeezing Twitter of all the worth he can wring from it. His efforts, however, are likely to fail, just like the Harkonnen's own.
@Eastern Rebel I just never cared when it showed up. I thought about it once or twice, but thank God I didn't join in. I don't think my mental could've handled it at the time.
@@miasmicdreamer Twitter is a great way to follow breaking news, or at least it was. I was on twitter for nine years and left a couple of months ago. It's a little disappointing as it was a way I was keeping in touch with a few people, but since 2020 it had become way too toxic.
To this day I haven’t made a twitter account despite people telling me to do it and I haven’t regretted my decision once especially after watching it slowly crumble to shit
Every time I think I should have made a Twitter account, I see videos and headlines and comments about what's going on and I'm so thankful I dodged this shitstorm. Maybe I'll sign up for whatever replaces it, maybe I won't.
There was a leak earlier that I heard from the WVFRM podcast that there was an options menu coming that gives you the ability to hide your twitter blue badge and I couldn’t stop laughing at the idea of people wanting that boost but being so ashamed of paying for it that they hide it😂😂
I always thought forcefully monetizing the twitter accounts of big companies was a veeeeery easy and straight forward way for twitter to make money, since making money from the common users is very hard, and potentially making them leave the platform. 1000 dollars is way less than what big companies are willing to pay, so that was wierd, but not even taking the money from the bigger ones? Only taking from the small companies? What is going on?
What's going on is Elon is a moron and has cratered Twitter's revenue by over 40% in under a year, and he's desperately trying to make it back by charging money for a little check mark. Only problem is, only the biggest, dorkiest losers are paying $8 and businesses are lining up in droves to laugh at the prospect of paying $1000 a month for no real benefit whatsoever, so Musk has completely failed at monetising Twitter, with less than one tenth of one percent of users (0.1%) choosing to "upgrade", way below his laughable target of 2%. Ultimately we should all be thankful to Elon for providing us with such intense comedy, and for making it so much easier to spot his smoothbrained simps.
The same thing has been going on on Instagram where it's nothing but violence death in horrific stuff quite frankly it seems way too weird that everybody's experiencing the same thing including myself it's almost like they're trying to get us numb to seeing violence and death
Oh my gosh! I thought I was alone in seeing all those horrific videos on Twitter. It made me so upset when they would show up even when I would block accounts posting the gore. Ugh.
@galexie__ The new report layout is super long and convoluted, makes you feel like Twitter is saying, ‘Are you really really sure this guy did something wrong? Could you be imagining it?’
im so glad you said that, I literally hate watching gore videos or people dying, and that is all thar pops up on my twitter. Luckily all I care to see on there is the people im already following
The last change you mentioned about restricting accounts that aren't check marked or some shit is extremely detrimental to new artists trying to grow their platform. (Like me) We need that random chance to get on a somewhat bigger account to be able to grow. Restricting that ruins Twt for a lot of artists and we'll have to suffer with Instagram
@@bewawolf19 ooooor they should be able to without having to pay money to a billionare at all??? What part of detrimental to new artists trying to grow don't you understand? Not sure why I'm bothering, you're probably just a bot or some elon defender fanboy
@@gremlininblue2601 "ooooor they should be able to without having to pay money to a billionare at all?" How will that work? Use the old system where you already need to have a lot of followers to be verified? Because currently if small artist want to get fame they will have to get the verified checkmark
@@Argonikron You're missing the whole point. This system makes it so that they won't be shown and won't be able to have polls for their audience just because they're not forking over money for a checkmark, not that they need to be checkmarked at all. It's not about the verification, it's about them making it so that only those who pay show up. They're literally just making a system worse to punish those who don't pay for a free website instead of coming up with new things for payers that doesn't make the site actively worse than it was before. I'm not sure where you're getting this being about them needing to be verified just to have a following and to do commissions. I don't think you're understanding what me or the op is even saying at all
@@gremlininblue2601 Hardly an Elon Fanboy, as he is anti right-to-repair. You though are complaining that a feature that use to cost thousands for you as a pleb to recieve now costing only a tiny fraction of that. Where is the logic in that? You now have an option to pay a small amount of money to increase how much a website promotes your art, and you can decide if you want to do it or if it isn't worth it. If you decide it isn't worth it, you aren't any worse off than you were before as you are still competing against others who lack the checkmark. Checkmarks always gave a boost based off of having a checkmark, just now it is more accessible for more people to pay for that benefit. Unless we manage to create an AI that is extremely good at detecting bots reliably, the best method of preventing bot spam and manipulation on social platforms is via subscription fee's. You probably should expect for things like this to become more common in the future rather than less as running more and more complex bots becomes easier and cheaper. That would be a much healthier mentality than complaining you can't get a service for free because you arbitrarily decided you deserve it for free.
"Okay so we're adding gold checkmarks for companies guys, and we're making them hella expensive. Except of course for the wealthiest companies in the world, they get it for free." I have no words.
They did the same thing with their API changes. Went from free (or in some enterprise cases, 14k a month) to all of it being rolled together in a 42k a month or more set of packages. Gave a 1-2 week notice but didn't turn it off. Then randomly one day last week they did with no notice
My Twitter For You is filled with literal graphic smut and violence also. And I have never liked, shared, or searched for that content on Twitter. There is something very weird going on with that algorithm. I can’t imagine that this stuff is so prevalent/ popular that it would be recommended just out of its own popularity, and not factoring my own interests. Like maybe Musk disabled all filters so as such to protect free speech? And so weird popular stuff is getting recommended? But if that’s the case, I’d assume I would just see more ‘normie’ content, like if you go to UA-cam and you aren’t signed into your account. You just see Me Beast videos, and other family friendly, boring, tame popular content. I can’t imagine this snuff/ graphic violence is as popular and viral as normie Mr Beast content though.
You can literally type in anything into the search bar and there is like a 99% chance that if you scroll for more than 10 seconds you will see some gross ass porn. It’s ridiculous. I’m just trying to look up stuff for video games, sports, or world news. Nobody wants to see that shit.
I bet Elon's fetish is showing people graphic content unexpectedly, and he's so self-centered that he's incapable of understanding why it makes a bad site-wide policy
@@apo11ocat not sure if you’re joking or sincere. But I highly doubt there are so many people interested in seeing snuff/ graphic violence on the intervener for it to be prevalent in a recommended, without having any priory algorithmic knowledge of your interest in it. I know there are wierdo’s and sicko’s who enjoy that stuff, but they are a tiny niche minority. In fact, I’d think I’d be more likely to see basket weaving videos recommended to me rather than graphic violence and snuff. Even though I have no interest in basket weaving. But it probably has a bigger audience than snuff.
For some weird reason the "liked by [user you follow]" or "retweeted by [user you follow]" was removed, and it annoys me so much because i want to see less of ehat they're retweeting or liking but I can't because it's not there anymore. Honestly what I'm trying to say is that some of the people you're following is liking that stuff and it's appearing on the timeline, but you can't tell because that feature was removed. Or it's some sort of bullshit with the algorithm. I saw a post that showed how it worked, and likes gave posts a 30x boost, with media boosting it even more.
The last I checked-in the For You tab was filled with stuff I don't follow nor have interest in. Checked in again today, out of curiosity, and saw the regular stuff I follow in the feed.
replying to the gore things on twitter, i saw some of them but the biggest wave i've seen was on instagram where full on murder videos recorded by the killer themselves were posted on there, torture videos etc and most of them weren't even behind a "sensitive content" warning, and even if they were, who expects full on murder there?? it was so sick
I think the way to make Twitter blue worth it is to remove the monthly subscription based payment and just make it a one time payment only and make it more expensive. Like 20 dollars forever it much better than 96 dollars a year, and it also still removes the bot problem. So many companies are doing monthly subscription its ridiculous at this point.
thought the checkmark was originally meant to confirm if someone is actually that person (mostly for big people/corpo's and stuff) and not a troll account.
charlie is the nicest person i know. i was eating at a restaurant and i saw him so i went to say hi. he stabbed me with his steak knife and kissed me on the forehead. he really is such a good man.
Elon values the people’s voices and freedom of speech so much he’s putting polling & voting behind a paywall that barely offers anything in return. Maybe he’s bitter about that poll he lost about stepping down. The algorithm thing really irritates me because it potentially could ruin the way people can go viral and get discovered. A small creator like myself benefits from networking and getting noticed and this could stunt any natural growth. He’s creating a problem and selling the solution. Blue literally has no incentive for me, ironically enough I’ve been told having it doesn’t even help you get more engagement so it’s a joke right now. I’m not opposed to a subscription service but you have to give a real reason to people to buy it
Regarding the "for you" page - MOST developers barely understand how these algo's work. EVEN LESS of them understand the "why" or the "how" of these results. Changing these algo's is akin to just blindly pulling levers on a machine hoping for what appears to be a good result. It's very likely that no one left who understands how to effectively tweak these things. Change one little weight value or remove a paramater? BOOM everyone gets death on their timeline.
My guess about the gore stuff is that it's likely the same group that will occasionally spam FA with a bunch of real life gore/criminal evidence pictures. The difference here is that FA has at least competent enough staff that are immediately on top of it whenever it happens and very quickly removes them while Twitter doesn't really have a staff to do that. I'd imagine that the group that does that crap likely figured out they could get away with it on Twitter -shrug-. I don't remember if they come from 4chan or specifically a real life gore enthusiasts forum, either way they're crappy people because they be posting that stuff with out any tags/warnings/whatever which of course results in people being subjected to terrible stuff.
are they having another gore spam again? I remember the whole scare on twitter a few years back where videos would be laced with those gore videos, so you could very well be watching some cute video on cats then see some guy get his head chopped off. Was some scary shit man, i wouldn't be surprised if the gore intensified because of the whole dumb checkmark.
Musk fired all the moderators and even a lot of the staff that work on the core systems. He even tried to fire people he couldn't legally fire (referring to Halli, which is a crazy story in itself). It's no wonder the platform barely functions as it is.
@@RyuFitzgerald Musk "didn't have a choice" because he overpaid out of the ass for Twitter and took out giant loans for his purchase at a time when interest rates were at a 30 year high. The interest he pays on his purchase is why he's in such a dire position financially, and it's nobody's fault but his own. Those employees didn't ask or want a billionaire to single-handedly buy their company and basically bankrupt the company before new management even arrived, but that's what happened. Musk did have a choice, he could've chose not to feed his own ego and obsession with tweeting by buying a $44 Billion company that's now valued under $20 Billion only months later.
@@RyuFitzgerald It absolutely does matter what Musk paid for it, because those loans automatically became Twitter's own debt, i.e. Musk basically forced the company into massive debt and yearly interest fees that it could not possibly pay off - this is why Musk fired nearly all of Twitter's employees. He's basically pulling out every stop to try to make Twitter turn a profit, or at the very least pay off their interest payments (thus his asinine "Twitter Blue" debacle), all so it doesn't go bankrupt from the interest rates alone. Buying Twitter for $44 Billion was such a terrible decision that it basically doomed the company and all its employees before the business even turned ownership, ensuring the company would spiral and snowball into more debt unless drastic changes were made. In other words, all this shit is 100% Musk's fault. While you're correct tech companies are laying off workers, layoffs of 80-90% of all employees is beyond insane. For perspective, Disney laid off thousands of workers that accounted for 3-4% of its headcount. Facebook (or should I say, "Meta") is one of the most drastic examples considering they also spent upwards of $36 Billion on the failed Metaverse. After spending nearly as much money as Musk on Twitter, it still has only laid off 12% of its workforce so far. There are announcements that this number may rise in the next year, but even their worst projections has a max overall reduction of 25% of their headcount. In other words, what Musk is doing is so unprecedented that even Meta's colossal fuckup with the Metaverse doesn't even come close to the complete mismanagement and dumpster fire that Twitter has unfortunately become - likely why everyone is seeing NSFW, gore and snuff videos on their For You timelines & many of their core systems just stop working suddenly from time to time.
I'm having an issue with my following sections where people who I don't even follow are showing up there and it's not like someone retweeting something it's just random people.
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I love how the checkmark for accounts of political figures is grey, making politicians look even more soulless than they already do
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all the bots under this,,, sheesh
and they made the corporate ones gold, like corporations are more important than the real public figures
as souless as politicians are, its the corporations who they are buying their souls
Every time Twitter makes a new change I am baffled by how they manage to come up with something worse each and every time
charlie commented on my newest video
The bots in the comments are going wild
These bots 😑
Because twitter is ea ... ea is twitter .... einhorn is finkle and finkle is einhorn
the bots are dominating ur comment
$1000 a month for an internet badge is the most Elon Musk thing I've heard in a while.
Better than arbitrary verification standards that were literal endorsements like the old system.
Yeah and giving it to the rich for free as well. That's how he got most things in his life. Something I had to learn myself... you only get free stuff as a child and if you have money, if you're poor nobody cares
True but with this nobody can impersonate a company now
@@ogzombieblunt4626 Elon musk is a low IQ fool and so are you. your parents cry at night because of you
@@ogzombieblunt4626 No. Actually not better.
Twitter has been filled with death and gore videos/images far longer than people realize, it's just that Twitter automatically blacklisted them and kept them out of the For You pages when they still had a reliable filter.
Sometimes it feels like companies try to one up each other on horrible decisions
It should be a monthly event. Twitter is currently in the lead, let’s see what UA-cam has to answer back👀
This isn’t even a company’s decision. It’s just Elon being Elon.
Thats the same as ea, activision and ubisoft.
Consistently competing to see who can cause more outrage and be the more scummy company!
@@prezzeruk4054 The difference is people dont talk about those three as much as everything else, tbf tho its prolly cuz theyve been doing it so long, like everyone has known goobisoft is a goofy goober pos company for some years now and EA has been awful since forever.
still waiting for a netflix update for the trifecta
Getting verified on Twitter is like getting the nicest room on the Titanic
poetry right here bruh
It was like that even before Elon came around.
The difference is nobody knew the Titanic would sink
@@RaceBandit not really since you didn’t have to pay for it
bruh titanic best room have a really classy services and you don't know it'd sink, twitter's verified room is like a toilet with cesspool of shit and piss in it and you are paying for that shit while also knowingly waiting to die, not a good comparison lol
The gold checkmark is exactly how you describe it. It's designed to be predatory upon small businesses trying to advertise themselves.
So? They dodge enough taxes and get more help than individuals from government whilst having the money to SET UP a business.
While exempting the top 10,000 organizations from it. What the heck?
Glad to see Twitter has resorted to recommending snuff to its users. That'll definitely keep anyone else from leaving.
that's the reason I have a twitter account.
The snuff was a shock but the videos of death have traumatised me
I left for good when I found uncensored videos of child porn. It’s absolutely horrifying.
@@QueenOfHearts666 holy mother of god, what the fuck.
@@maxthibodeau3627 They’re just trading material like that out in the open apparently. Obviously I reported the shit out of every account I found including the ones interacting with the videos. I have no idea if they ever actually got banned and even if they did, I don’t know if anything stops them from just making new accounts.. Holy mother of God is correct.
Twitter threatened to take away my legacy checkmark if I didn’t pay for Twitter Blue.
damn
Chocolate rain man
Cry who cares tornados are ripping people's homes apart and that's all you care about. Cry baby boy waaa waAA
Did they?
@@everythingpony Yep. A message popped up saying “Don’t lose your verification! Subscribe to Twitter Blue now!”
Imagine being a small business and being told you have to pay the equivalent to your company’s building unit rent to be verified on social media. My jaw dropped when you talked about the gold mark..
I think the worst is knowing that big companies are not going to pay at all, even if they are the ones that can easily afford it
If you're a small business you don't need that checkmark anyways. Same with majority of people who have it.
I'm pretty sure any business can afford this
Edit: many people replied to me saying that I don't know how businesses work, they're probably right and this can effect small businesses and leave big ones untouched, so I admit it's a bad idea
Definitely agree with the sentiment but in most of the US you can’t rent a room for $1000 a month let alone a commercial space.
Imagine thinking you need a check next to your name on Twitter
I quit Twitter months ago and I'm so glad I did. I honestly feel better. Sometimes you don't realize how horrible and toxic something is until you get away from it.
Good job, man. You successfully escaped the hellhole full of people bringing politics into random things
Correct, Facebook as well
@@iDontUse4chan No thats not the issue. If politics literally did not exist they would still be toxic.
People on twitter do not think and just yell at each other. Reading comprehension? Not a thing on twitter
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 yep, you said it better than I did.
based and kekistanpilled
My jaw dropped at $1000.Insane amount to ask for a fucking sticker 💀
It's like paying rent but instead of paying for a building your paying for 7 pixels on a website.
as an artist on twt, polls aren’t useless, especially for artists who make products like figurines, clothing and stuffed animals etc, it’s the only way to really gauge what our audience wants. yeah we can use off site polls but we shouldn’t have to
Thank you, was looking for a comment like this.
this. 💯
also as an artist on twt as well, i hate how in this ongoing "twitter is slowly sinking" conversation people never thought of the artists and other indies who has their engagement hurt by changes Elon made to the platform.
I highly believe Elon is literally trolling everyone on Twitter right now and I love it
@@graffiti.777 I think he's just desperate for more money even though he's already a billionaire
I agree. Im a big rap page on twitter and often make votes about what people prefer
Twitch and Twitter actually have to be competing for who can make their users more frustrated
Yup
And in that competition twitter is heading for 1st by running straight through an area with active land mines that was set on fire
Twitch literally bans peoples accounts permanently when they get mugged or robbed or worse on stream, so they've got it going pretty good, but Elon on the other hand...
Don't forget UA-cam.
UA-cam one pf the top competitors as well
It's so weird that Twitter is now pushing random graphic gore videos to unsuspecting users, I thought iFunny and 4chan had that market cornered
Cant forget reddit either
Never underestimate the ability of the people who force that stuff on other people to have an insatiable need to be noticed by everyone
inb4 Twitter actually manages to be relevant again by becoming the new liveleak
I think it's actually funnier this way. Now we can bully people for paying for twitter blue despite not being sure if they did actually pay
chronically online comment man, go touch grass and another human
Based on what people are saying, people can only keep their check marks by paying, so in a way they are still all paying for Twitter. Ppl like Lebron James are making it a point to say they're not paying for shit
@@thehumanity0 Yes ... Technically ... But that was already supposed to end on April 2nd and yet Elon relented and pushed the date further back.
😂
Why didn't I get any notifs about this comment until it hit 338 likes
The Twitter poll thing is a big slap in the face for artists using community votes to decide their next pieces.
as an artist who went to twitter to avoid tiktok and how it treats artists, this is devastating. i'm going back to tumblr
Can’t you just link to another poll site?
You can still use external polls.
I get that you're an artist, so tech might be confusing, but you can still use polls on Twitter. Just not the Twitter polling software.
But this is more about your feelings than the facts, right?
Yeah but with the fact that you wont show up on new peoples for you page anymore that kinda ruins a lot of the random voters
@@pkz420 wasn't musk talking about targeting external links tho?
The loss of polls is gonna suck for the fandom/writer side of twitter because many writer accounts use those to interact with their communities to do choose-your-own-adventure style threads and things like that
Real
Who really benefits from that? Most users not being able to vote really makes polls useless
@@tomlxyz Elon does. Terrible
@@gabrote42 how does he benefit???
@@ettaetta439 I suppose the other user was assumming Elon was thinking that removing poll interaction without Twitter Blue might encourage more people to get Twitter Blue.
It’s just that I feel like this is just a company shooting itsself in the foot cause besides people with serious ego. The Twitter Blue stuff just is not worth anything. Like it doesn’t even go to a creator it goes to the company.
Someone once told me that life as a poor person was expensive, and the $1000/month gold check mark is like a perfect analogy
A person or group having enough money to set up any business is not poor by any stretch.
You and your 12 likes should look up what an analogy is before you throw a fancy word like that around😊
normally when people say that they're talking about how being poor and not being able to afford healthcare can put you in bad health which in turn makes you need more expensive healthcare and other related basic needs. i don't think that really applies here because a gold checkmark isn't a necessity for like, anyone at all
and going without a gold checkmark is not putting you in a worse financial state
@@martinconneally8756 dude, i’m not sure if you realize this but there’s a big difference between million dollar companies and the local bakery down the street who works their ass off to stay in business. starting a business costs a lot of money, yeah, but the example given still works put. these people do not have an extra thousand to blow yet companies and businesses who make millions, to whom a thousand dollars is more worthless than a penny, get it for free.
The fact that they took away text message two-factor authentication blew my mind. I can’t properly secure my account unless I pay a monthly fee. It’s incredibly stupid.
Whats more stupid is paying for 2fa for bot accounts and being upcharged by Tmobile because they know they can get away with it.
I agree taking away 2fa was bad for the avg user but if your company is losing money and other companies are taking advantage of you this is the only option.
Im still waiting for my account to be locked until i remove text 2FA
@@LordZanas iirc it's not that they're gonna lock it until you remove SMS 2FA; they're just gonna lock it period
like the warning was straight up "remove this _now_ or you may get locked out forever if you ever get logged out"
Imagine you wanna ask your audience on Twitter a question via a poll and now they can’t participate anyway 😂
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You got dogpiled, damn
He's upset because everyone voted for him to quit in that one poll he made so he only wants the suck-ups to be able to vote.
@Jaiden Animations Should Starve Herself ⸜⁄ logan buddy, it’s ok sometimes dads don’t come back. that doesn’t mean you need to be a nazi ok youtube and wish for other creators to die
@@KngMaxwell report the bot
rip to the art community of twitter who use it as a platform to get commissions and such, or who use polls to get a read on what their audience wants and etc
Why?
They can still use it as a platform to sell, and still use (external) polls.
Nothing has changed that would affect them.
Oh, right. This is about your feelings, and not about the reality of things.
@Nothing To See Here if your audience doesn't see the polls then you won't get the same amount of engagement.
@Nothing To See Here This is the opinion of someone who knows absolutely nothing about the art side of Twitter. In reality, as time goes on, smaller artists get less and less exposure and traffic from an algorithm that pushes posts away from the top and shadowbans people at a whim based on extraordinarily arbitrary criteria. NSFW artists suffer the most.
@@pkz420 the Twitter algorithm explicitly suppresses posts containing external links ya dang dingus
is it ready concluded artists don't have $8 or have a moral objection to paying? isn't that a business expense?
I mean at least for being recommend they kind of have to. the polls issue is pretty dumb because it will really limit the usefulness but there are plenty of ways to gauge interest.
theyre not going to gab (does that even exist?) Twitter users already cancelled all the competition, ridiculed anyone for using them. great work.
Immediately after joining, he stripped out the teams responsible for keeping bots off the platforms. There's a graph floating around that shows the massive uptick in accounts immediately after doing this.
I get multiple bots in my DMs everyday. Previously, it used to be 1 or 2 a week. But Elon says he got rid of the bots and millions of people believe him. It doesn’t take much to notice it’s worse than ever before. They ignore reality because they want to like him so bad. It’s great if he improved their experience in certain ways, but let’s not pretend everything is perfect & peachy now.
My inbox is flooded with DMs from bots these days. I never delete my message requests and I started getting messages from bots on October 27th, literally the same day Elon took over and fired all of those employees.
I’m still getting followed by bots on the daily. I know they aren’t real because each page for them is just two pictures of a hot lady and links to sites that’ll give my computer a virus.
Going on twitter recently has actually been so detrimental for my mental health specifically due to Charlie's comment on the death and gore videos. Those are so graphic and disturbing I can't stop thinking about them until days after, and the fact that they're being force fed to me and others via the for you page is just disgusting. I go on twitter to get a few laughs and look at some memes, not to be depressed.
Oh man, I'm sorry that the Twitter algorithm is misunderstanding you this badly.
Use Mastodon.
In my case its fight and self-defense videos, which I see as interesting. Then memes and kittens.
I’m sorry man
Twitter has always been detrimental for your mental health. That’s why any failure for Twitter is all great news.
I’m convinced Twitter and Netflix are competing to see who can make the worst decision
Don't forget Twitch, they all seem to be catching Ls in a manner not yet seen before. It's like they're all trying to actively frustrate their customer base into leaving.
@Logan Floor {UTTP} L
don't forget facebook
Don’t forget UA-cam
@@Xadaj127 if the CEO doesnt want the job ill take it. I wont be good at it and it would go broke in a week because I'd listen to the community but Id still run it
Props to elon for being able to even think about such terrible desicions consistently
all that being said, Twitter won't ever die, no matter the decisions, as long as there is no real competitive site
You can't even spell.. Elon said he was going to ruin it.
imagine thinking this is bad, but then you go use tiktok... which is ten times as bad
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@@dertythegrower-🐷
I distinctly remember how Elon was comparing Twitter to a Town Meeting/town square where anyone can have an equal voice, but since he has taken over it has been anything but. You pay to have a voice in his ideal Twitter.
In a way it’s more equal than requiring fame. $9 is easier to get than celebrity status.
@Just Some Guy With A Mustache Tell me you're an incel without telling me you're an incel. You want a fantasy reality where you saying a thing is on the same as someone who is well known by everyone.
@@ombra711 So are you saying you think it shouldn't be equal? You're allowed to have that opinion but it doesn't really dispute what the guy was actually responding to.
Most people can make a bit of money and buy a badge if they want it, but most people can't just become famous, thus it's a bit more equal.
I think both systems are stupid and I wish twitter would just die, but it is what it is.
Do you even know what an incel is? Maybe instead of insulting people you could try to tell them why their statement is wrong by giving legit reasons, instead of calling them something that isn't even remotely related to their comment.
@@t.h4951 Judging by your attitude, you’re probably an incel
Going off of correlative evidence
the fact that elon has been making certain decisions about the site based on twitter polls and is now restricing them to blue subscribers says a LOT about his views on free speech lmao
Free speech for him but not for thee!
@@RyuFitzgerald ... I dont think the issue is the bots rn....
@@RyuFitzgerald You are the definition of a bot. You have no purpose, no goal. Just a bot going through life defending elon left and right in hopes he lets you suck his dick. he won't, but a bot like you can't do anything else.
Bots may be a problem but they’re also just his excuse so it looks like he’s doing something helpful when he charges people to do things that were always free.
@@emblemblade9245 I’m sure bots are an issue, but the solution isn’t making people pay 8 dollars a month to vote on polls, lmao.
On art twitter, this is devastating, losing polls as well kind of blows, but at least there are alternatives.
Unfortunately, putting a link in a tweet hinders its visibility, so outside poll sites hurt you to use.
Visibility rules suck. You can get penalties for not “sticking to a subject” and you can get the most severe penalties for ACCIDENTALLY MISSPELLING A WORD OR USING UNRECOGNIZED WORDS
@@VolutoEighto Elon giving the middle finger to anyone under 10 fr 💀
@@WestGarbage6 10 year olds shouldn't be on twitter anyway but this mf hates dyslexics
@@WestGarbage6 At this point, the only real solution is to move to a different platform.
Which I hate, because it defeats the purpose of the platform, I swear anytime I upload a vid or link out to my channels it just fucks off number wise. I'll make a video upload it, it hits.. 1000 views if it's click bait, maybe.. 200 if not, I upload a png image, 180k views 2k comments likes etc etc, it's fucking stupid. It goes to like a 100th of the people
I think its worth noting that hes doing the twitter poll thing because of when he made a twitter poll asking if he should step down and everyone said yes, so he made a second one hoping to "evade bots" and EVEN MORE people said yes. Then he said that the bots had clearly taken over and he wouldn't be stepping down, so he was going to make it so only verified people can vote on polls
The free speech absolutist at his best!
bet you he posts another poll so people buy checkmarks to vote yes
Notice how the excuse is always "the bots."
@@thebananas6483 the ironic part is that bots do exist, but he's failed to provide evidence that the people that said "yes" were bots, whereas if you go to any page, UA-cam channel, Facebook group, or subreddit that is dedicated to praising their lord and savior Elon, it is rife with bots and retards that have the thought process of a bot, abd tgey are often indistinguishable. Nothing but the sane tropes and preprogrammed responses to everything. "To The Moon" , "FUD", "Lambos", "Elon endorsed this [insert shitcoin here]" , "were going to Mars soon" even though he can barely launch a rocket that doesn't explode and constantly ignored his engineers when they pointed out flaws, and countless other shit like that. Literally NPC like behavior, which is ironic given that they love calling any detractors, no matter how solid and reasonable their arguments, "bots" and "NPCs"
@@thebananas6483 Which is hilarious because he hasn't shut up about how he "totally got rid of all the bots guys, for real this time!"
It fills me with joy every time I remember I've never owned a twitter account.
It's funny watching freeloaders get mad when the cookie jar is taken from them.
lmao same... that platform has been filled with nothing but disaster since Day 1, much less with it's Musk-y repackaging.
that yellow badge change is the most elitist elon musk decision ever lmao 😂 rewarding the rich by giving handouts and making it harder for the underdog
The underdog is the person who buys from a small business, not the small business 😊
We just have to appreciate Elon for being so consistent at making the absolute worst decisions for his platform
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok
Here before this comment becomes the top comment or one of them
Buying Twitter was his worst decision
Twitter is still up isn't it?
One of the decisions in history.
We don’t want twitter to fall apart not because we want the site to be better.
We just don’t want the twitter users to migrate.
Who is we? I'd like people to move to Mastodon.
tumblr fumbled it very FUCKING bad
NOW LOOK AT WHAT THEYVE DONE
Most of the Toxic Twitter SJWs migrated from Tumblr and now I am afraid where they will being their insanity next.
@@fenrirsrage4609
Ugh. Using “SJW” in 2023? Really?
Like, your sentiment is not wrong but oh dear lord that cringe…😂
@@warlordofbritannia i personally think saying shit like 'ugh' is way more cringe, but to each their own Mr Warlord 😂
2:43 Actually, the extension that tells you who’s paying for Twitter Blue still works. ELon only changed the wording, not the actual code behind it.
Man essentially went to the CoD wiki and tried to troll by removing the game title parentheses from every weapon, but was too stupid to also change the links to their correct pages
they can just update it if you point out the mistake. He's prob going to fire like 10 more engineers cuz of that mistake since it hurt his ego, but still.
Omg, I’m glad you mentioned about the gore thing.. I started seeing graphic videos of people dying all of a sudden and wondered why
Imagine living in a time and age where Twitter drama actually had an effect on your real life.
The quartering
2 fucking real responses....3 included mine these bots are wild
tiktok also.. way worse for you
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@Jaiden Animations Should Starve Herself ⸜⁄ who’s this guy?
Love that Twitter has to keep backtracking on whether they wanted the verified checkmarks to be separate from blue subscribers, even thinking about green checks. It's so funny
-Elon Musk
-Sticking to promises
Choose one 😂
@@warlordofbritannia yea he's got a few promises he's got to go through with
Elon - "We need to battle impersonation"
Also Elon - *Makes it harder to spot impersonators*
Elon again - "Guys we really need to fix this"
Twitter - *Visible confusion*
Imagine paying 8 dollars for Twitter when you can just throw it out the window instead.
I think there's just a lot more gore on twitter than most people realize and all they did was disable some filters, so that's why that issue exists
And then there's people like me who don't think it's a problem until they realize they've already blacklisted those terms ages ago and that's the reason why their feed isn't full of gore and nude images.
Used twitter for the first time in ages like a week ago, saw a vid of a robber fumbling with his gun and dropping it, thought "oh that's kinda funny what else is on this account". The very next thing I see is a guy getting popped in the head execution style like damn bro
@@T0NI_ dang
They have a major problem with that. There are popular accounts that are devoted to it. They also need to get the freaking CP out of there. I cant tell you how many times I’ve had to report accounts for spreading it. Only for them to come back again.
It seemed like the algorithm went to crap when Elon first purchased Twitter and fired everyone. I think he basically made Twitter completely algorithm dependent. That’s why my “for you” is outdated by days or even months. Posts are less tailored to my activity and I started seeing more gore/NSFW material. Yesterday, I saw a man literally burn alive in a hot air balloon while his daughter jumped from five stories up. No idea how it was allowed and didn’t have a NSFW blur.
Love how you likened the gold badge to a coin. I remember when Elbow Muskrat first introduced it, the badge was flat colour and a ton of Aussies started calling it the "piss tick".
Remember when Elongated Mask said everyone on Twitter would be treated equally on the platform?
I ‘member.
@@warlordofbritannia Who would have guessed a manbaby spoiled since his first birth yet so self unconscious that he calls himself a "self made billionaire" went on his way to not follow his word😮😮
@@miguelpadeiro762
I still can’t believe we elected him to be president
Wait
@@warlordofbritannia Wait indeed
Americans are on a streak, first they elect a complete moron, now they elect a senile old man that is controlled behind the scenes
Matter of time before some big corpo guy is elected and makes the USA even more a decentralized capitalist state than it is now
Chill soy boys. His team even banned me and I was going full centrist. Eliza blue was a big contribute to some bans I think. So hold your soy horses a little more. I wouldn't be surprised if he merged his companies and that could work. He could locate it to one area. Space x area. Easy $
Watching twitter burn down is kind of like Watching an overly drawn-out recreation of the sinking of the titanic.
Charlie last point resonated with me. I am 32 years old, never used or signed up for Twitter and it hasn't affected my life or my business. If you see the value, but cannot afford it, then I get why you would be upset, but otherwise Twitter isn't the site that comes to mind when thinking promotion of a company. Take that 1000$ a month and invest it into ADs and paid promotions on UA-cam or Google, you'll get way more value then your Twitter account with a few hundred followers and a check mark. This is the internet, there is a lot of competition and value that can be gained from 1000$, plus no one is forcing you to stay on Twitter or use it.
Exactly, too many ppl using all these platforms feel entitled.
“Twitter and bad decisions go together like spaghetti and meatballs”-Beautiful words spoken by Charlie
@YeaMan bot
charlie commented on my newest video
Yes, we have watched the first 30 seconds of this video.
Twitter and bad decisions go together like Turning Red and September 11.
We watched the same video? 😱😱🥶🥶😳😳
"Imagine buying a Twitter Checkmark, thats hilarious!"
"Bro I swear I didn't pay for my checkmark, I had it before twitter blue existed!"
"Show me your bank statements within the past month right now to prove it"
It'd be wild if this were to even happen lol
I'm sure Elon will make it an option to hide that checkmark sooner or later.
i would say, just check their follower account/past tweets to check if legacy or paid, but aint no way anyone actually gonna take 2 seconds to do so
it's twitter, it will happen.
Everytime I watch these I go “oh no!” And then I realize I don’t even use Twitter so I immediately lose interest 💀
Glad you mentioned the death/gore stuff. i dont go out my way to look for it, nor do i like it yet ive had graphic stabbings appear in my feed.
Man, if billionaires could buy and control physical things like paper you wouldn’t be able to erase letters or would be locked within a word cap. I’m kinda glad and hope that they just stick with worthless things like twitter to ruin and destroy
isn't that just using a pen
Elon's ability to unremittingly drive twitter further into the ground is so entertaining to watch
charlie commented on my newest video
@Logan Floor 🇮🇱 you have no content 💀
Honestly I think it's a great thing that Elon Musk is destroying Twitter, it's such a toxic platform that it shouldn't exist (well, the community is, not Twitter))
Elon's just so trying to own people while looking like the biggest corn cob in the room
it has the most people using twitter in a long time time, and they aren't wasting tons of money and is self sufficient. What about that is driving it further into the ground?
The really fun part is that people can still know if you got Twitter Blue if they have any of those "Show who paid for twitter blue" addons.
reminder that corporations love to pull up the ladder
i had that gore issue as well on my for you page. it was tagged under "because you're interested in esport" or something, then it showed a robber getting stabbed 10 times by the clerk. makes it even more absurd, i don't even interact with esports at all on twitter.
I’ve seen that the guy was trying to steal from him
That robber deserved it. Dude even said you can take the cash but leave the change in the full tips bucket but he got greedy and hopped over the counter. FAFO
@@maineiacman maybe he did but a lot of people dont really want to see it happening in live time (i dont)
@@ConnorsCrapTV yeah, hence why i referred to him as a "robber"
@@maineiacman nobody gives a shit about who deserved what. the complaint here is that op doesn't want to see graphic videos in his timeline but twitter keeps showing it to him.
I bet that sooner or later someone will make an extension so that you can see who actually earned the checkmark and who bought one just like for the dislikes on UA-cam
unless the twitter API contains that information, i doubt it
@@prodbylukee It actually already exists kind of. A while ago someone made an extension that replaces paid checkmarks with the nerd emoji and even now it still differentiates between legacy and paid blue, despite the changes :)
@@QueenOfBrokenStone what's the extension name, if u can remember?
I honestly thought they did this on April first so they could reverse it by claiming it was a prank if there was enough backlash, but nah they just kept that shit 😂
the gore stuff you see is based off of an exploit those types of videos are doing which increases how much they appear on people's algorithms
I had seen someone mention how twitter right now is like the part in Portal 2 where Wheatley gains control of the facility and starts tearing it apart.
" I AM NOT A MORON!" Elon Musk - 2022
"Fatty, fatty, no parents, fat fat"
@@TwoNumbahNiens Reactor explosion eminent
as of recently, elon has confirmed that twitter is worth HALF of what he bought it for now, you cannot genuinely make this up and i love it
Yeah but that’s like what 5% of his net worth? You all thinking he really gives a shit about it is most funny. Tesla, spaceX, starlink, and neuralink are his primary focus. Twitter is just a tax write off.
I mean, doesn't he get to use it as a tax write-off? Some people will call it a genius move 😂😂
The man is a genius after all lol.
he grossly overpaid. thats why they took him to court to force him to buy it. i have no doubt its in good hands though
@ImLoganStationwhat content?
My new year’s resolution was to delete twitter and not redownload and i thought it was kinda a lazy one at the time but it turns out i’m a lot happier without it!
(gotta admit though i watched this video in my tesla which made me feel like i’m kinda still elons bitch)
Actually a pretty good change. Now I just have to choose if i want, a Twitter badge, or rent...
Getting rid of bots by blocking both bots and actual users from the for you page would be the like emergency responders setting a building on fire to handle a hostage situation.
Yeah you got rid of the targets but at a cost that defeats the purpose of even addressing the problem in the first place
This need more likes
but before that they sneak all the wealthy people out the back so they can write them a check for their heroism
That’s just the russian solution
very well put
@@o_ber Basically 😂
I feel like this title could fit so many different situations that it could be reused over a dozen times
@Don't Read My Profile Photo okay I won’t🤣
Twitter is just whack
@Don't Read My Profile Photo but how can I unsee it
The one time Charlie does a specific title this fucking bot still posts their spam.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo ok
Each day I am reminded how lucky and happy I am for never joining Twitter.
As for the recent changes, it's yet another scheme by Musk in his never ending quest to recoup the money he blew on buying Twitter (spoiler: he never will get that money back).
The situation reminds me of the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune right after he took Arrakis from House Atriedes: Once the attack commenced, Duke Leto ordered a direct attack on Ghedi Prime's spice stores, wiping out all of the money the Baron had been saving up for the invasion. This forced the Harkonnens to be stuck on Dune harvesting back all that they had lost.
Or, in the Baron's words, the only thing he needs after their victory is income and they need to squeeze hard to get it.
Musk, similarly, is squeezing Twitter of all the worth he can wring from it. His efforts, however, are likely to fail, just like the Harkonnen's own.
All these awful changes and yet the toxicity problem still hasn't been fixed
The longer this goes on, the more glad i am I've never had a Twitter
Same sort of. I had Twitter for about a day and decided it was hot garbage and deleted my account and never looked back.
@Eastern Rebel I just never cared when it showed up. I thought about it once or twice, but thank God I didn't join in. I don't think my mental could've handled it at the time.
@@miasmicdreamer Twitter is a great way to follow breaking news, or at least it was. I was on twitter for nine years and left a couple of months ago. It's a little disappointing as it was a way I was keeping in touch with a few people, but since 2020 it had become way too toxic.
I had twitter when it first started, last year i deleted my whole account. It was the best decision i ever did for internet wise lol
I’m happy I deleted it in 2022
$1,000 a month is crazy for new developers 💀
And not maming big companies pay is a billionaire move
Dude really wanted to get that 44 billion dollars and yet he messed up lmao
Did you copypasta this comment from @Sonia’s Way?
@@DigisphereRec No, I commented it first, then a bot copies the comment and paste it for their scams of profile with s3x and shit 💀
Thats literally some peoples rent money. The fact that he green-lit this proves how out of touch he is with reality.
Buhu, things cost money and the old royality lost their status. What an insane *non*-issue.
To this day I haven’t made a twitter account despite people telling me to do it and I haven’t regretted my decision once especially after watching it slowly crumble to shit
Every time I think I should have made a Twitter account, I see videos and headlines and comments about what's going on and I'm so thankful I dodged this shitstorm. Maybe I'll sign up for whatever replaces it, maybe I won't.
There was a leak earlier that I heard from the WVFRM podcast that there was an options menu coming that gives you the ability to hide your twitter blue badge and I couldn’t stop laughing at the idea of people wanting that boost but being so ashamed of paying for it that they hide it😂😂
I mean Elon leaks aren't exactly reliable, man tells everyone what he's going to do but changes his mind constantly
I always thought forcefully monetizing the twitter accounts of big companies was a veeeeery easy and straight forward way for twitter to make money, since making money from the common users is very hard, and potentially making them leave the platform.
1000 dollars is way less than what big companies are willing to pay, so that was wierd, but not even taking the money from the bigger ones? Only taking from the small companies?
What is going on?
What's going on is Elon is a moron and has cratered Twitter's revenue by over 40% in under a year, and he's desperately trying to make it back by charging money for a little check mark. Only problem is, only the biggest, dorkiest losers are paying $8 and businesses are lining up in droves to laugh at the prospect of paying $1000 a month for no real benefit whatsoever, so Musk has completely failed at monetising Twitter, with less than one tenth of one percent of users (0.1%) choosing to "upgrade", way below his laughable target of 2%.
Ultimately we should all be thankful to Elon for providing us with such intense comedy, and for making it so much easier to spot his smoothbrained simps.
elon doesnt want to anger his daddies with a 1000 a month charge
Elon is a pure unadulterated capitalist who will stop at nothing to keep making more. He just spun some very good PR about him caring about the planet
The magical world of hyper-capitalism.
Obviously Elon is catering to the people that are like him. Not the average user.
The same thing has been going on on Instagram where it's nothing but violence death in horrific stuff quite frankly it seems way too weird that everybody's experiencing the same thing including myself it's almost like they're trying to get us numb to seeing violence and death
Yes I have the same issue on my explore page!! It’s always someone fighting or getting shot and I hate it
As an artist is really sad that all of this is happening on Twitter, since I can't think of another platform where it would be good to post art.
I guess Tumblr
Unsure how it affects you at all considering it only affects businesses that already have tons of money.
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@@Sammysapphira If people leave then less people will see the art, so it becomes a worse place to post and share art, I assume.
Sad how exactly?
Oh my gosh! I thought I was alone in seeing all those horrific videos on Twitter. It made me so upset when they would show up even when I would block accounts posting the gore. Ugh.
Elon's been chewing through too many cables.
Somehow I get no such videos, I just get cute animal videos (mostly cats) and videos about science, which i am fine with.^^
I couldn't fall asleep cause I saw some distrubing shit.
@@CloverCutieASMR Oh
@galexie__ The new report layout is super long and convoluted, makes you feel like Twitter is saying, ‘Are you really really sure this guy did something wrong? Could you be imagining it?’
hearing about the death and gore is new to me, i havent seen ANY of that on my twitter
7:23 is really gonna make artists struggle as their art won’t reach a massive audience no more
getting a "gold" twitter badge is like those who have proudly own NFT's as their icons
the gold badge verifies you as a business while an nft icon verifies you as a dumbass
Every social media company is locked in a competition to see who can run their platform into the ground first.
im so glad you said that, I literally hate watching gore videos or people dying, and that is all thar pops up on my twitter. Luckily all I care to see on there is the people im already following
The best part of Twitter blue is watching everyone throw tantrums because they're no longer exclusive
The last change you mentioned about restricting accounts that aren't check marked or some shit is extremely detrimental to new artists trying to grow their platform. (Like me) We need that random chance to get on a somewhat bigger account to be able to grow.
Restricting that ruins Twt for a lot of artists and we'll have to suffer with Instagram
Just pay for the checkmark. Previously you had to pay in the thousands to get verified if you weren't already famous, now it is cheaper.
@@bewawolf19 ooooor they should be able to without having to pay money to a billionare at all??? What part of detrimental to new artists trying to grow don't you understand? Not sure why I'm bothering, you're probably just a bot or some elon defender fanboy
@@gremlininblue2601 "ooooor they should be able to without having to pay money to a billionare at all?" How will that work? Use the old system where you already need to have a lot of followers to be verified? Because currently if small artist want to get fame they will have to get the verified checkmark
@@Argonikron You're missing the whole point. This system makes it so that they won't be shown and won't be able to have polls for their audience just because they're not forking over money for a checkmark, not that they need to be checkmarked at all. It's not about the verification, it's about them making it so that only those who pay show up. They're literally just making a system worse to punish those who don't pay for a free website instead of coming up with new things for payers that doesn't make the site actively worse than it was before. I'm not sure where you're getting this being about them needing to be verified just to have a following and to do commissions. I don't think you're understanding what me or the op is even saying at all
@@gremlininblue2601 Hardly an Elon Fanboy, as he is anti right-to-repair. You though are complaining that a feature that use to cost thousands for you as a pleb to recieve now costing only a tiny fraction of that. Where is the logic in that?
You now have an option to pay a small amount of money to increase how much a website promotes your art, and you can decide if you want to do it or if it isn't worth it. If you decide it isn't worth it, you aren't any worse off than you were before as you are still competing against others who lack the checkmark. Checkmarks always gave a boost based off of having a checkmark, just now it is more accessible for more people to pay for that benefit.
Unless we manage to create an AI that is extremely good at detecting bots reliably, the best method of preventing bot spam and manipulation on social platforms is via subscription fee's. You probably should expect for things like this to become more common in the future rather than less as running more and more complex bots becomes easier and cheaper. That would be a much healthier mentality than complaining you can't get a service for free because you arbitrarily decided you deserve it for free.
"Okay so we're adding gold checkmarks for companies guys, and we're making them hella expensive. Except of course for the wealthiest companies in the world, they get it for free."
I have no words.
I have a few words, poor baby's 😊
He's making twitter worse. That takes real skill
They did the same thing with their API changes. Went from free (or in some enterprise cases, 14k a month) to all of it being rolled together in a 42k a month or more set of packages. Gave a 1-2 week notice but didn't turn it off. Then randomly one day last week they did with no notice
Elon losing all his money to Twitter has to be the greatest wealth distribution this nation has ever seen
Distribution or disturbation? Because ain't none of that money getting distributed.
Mr robot reference
"losing all his money" yeah right....
@@malpheus4299 well it's not in musk's hands so that's all I need to be happy
Isn't the company on track finally to actually start not being in the deficet by millions every quarter?
My Twitter For You is filled with literal graphic smut and violence also. And I have never liked, shared, or searched for that content on Twitter.
There is something very weird going on with that algorithm. I can’t imagine that this stuff is so prevalent/ popular that it would be recommended just out of its own popularity, and not factoring my own interests.
Like maybe Musk disabled all filters so as such to protect free speech? And so weird popular stuff is getting recommended? But if that’s the case, I’d assume I would just see more ‘normie’ content, like if you go to UA-cam and you aren’t signed into your account. You just see Me Beast videos, and other family friendly, boring, tame popular content.
I can’t imagine this snuff/ graphic violence is as popular and viral as normie Mr Beast content though.
You can literally type in anything into the search bar and there is like a 99% chance that if you scroll for more than 10 seconds you will see some gross ass porn. It’s ridiculous. I’m just trying to look up stuff for video games, sports, or world news. Nobody wants to see that shit.
I bet Elon's fetish is showing people graphic content unexpectedly, and he's so self-centered that he's incapable of understanding why it makes a bad site-wide policy
It's like that because it's what people want!
@@apo11ocat not sure if you’re joking or sincere. But I highly doubt there are so many people interested in seeing snuff/ graphic violence on the intervener for it to be prevalent in a recommended, without having any priory algorithmic knowledge of your interest in it. I know there are wierdo’s and sicko’s who enjoy that stuff, but they are a tiny niche minority.
In fact, I’d think I’d be more likely to see basket weaving videos recommended to me rather than graphic violence and snuff. Even though I have no interest in basket weaving. But it probably has a bigger audience than snuff.
For some weird reason the "liked by [user you follow]" or "retweeted by [user you follow]" was removed, and it annoys me so much because i want to see less of ehat they're retweeting or liking but I can't because it's not there anymore.
Honestly what I'm trying to say is that some of the people you're following is liking that stuff and it's appearing on the timeline, but you can't tell because that feature was removed. Or it's some sort of bullshit with the algorithm. I saw a post that showed how it worked, and likes gave posts a 30x boost, with media boosting it even more.
The last I checked-in the For You tab was filled with stuff I don't follow nor have interest in. Checked in again today, out of curiosity, and saw the regular stuff I follow in the feed.
"the only way to beat bots is to pay me 8 dollars a month" lol lmao
replying to the gore things on twitter, i saw some of them but the biggest wave i've seen was on instagram where full on murder videos recorded by the killer themselves were posted on there, torture videos etc and most of them weren't even behind a "sensitive content" warning, and even if they were, who expects full on murder there?? it was so sick
Man that's crazy! I'm simultaneously glad that I left Instagram early and worried fir what will come next.
Where can I find that?
@@yummymanseed 🤨
@@yummymanseed ???
when did this happen?
they're so fortunate releasing the changes so close to April fools so they can just call it an elaborate joke
I think the way to make Twitter blue worth it is to remove the monthly subscription based payment and just make it a one time payment only and make it more expensive. Like 20 dollars forever it much better than 96 dollars a year, and it also still removes the bot problem. So many companies are doing monthly subscription its ridiculous at this point.
thought the checkmark was originally meant to confirm if someone is actually that person (mostly for big people/corpo's and stuff) and not a troll account.
charlie is the nicest person i know. i was eating at a restaurant and i saw him so i went to say hi. he stabbed me with his steak knife and kissed me on the forehead. he really is such a good man.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo stfu
@Don't Read My Profile Photo shut up and eat this goddamn ratio
@Don't Read My Profile Photo its not 2013 please shut up
It’s true. I was his steak knife.
its true, i was the forehead
Elon values the people’s voices and freedom of speech so much he’s putting polling & voting behind a paywall that barely offers anything in return. Maybe he’s bitter about that poll he lost about stepping down.
The algorithm thing really irritates me because it potentially could ruin the way people can go viral and get discovered. A small creator like myself benefits from networking and getting noticed and this could stunt any natural growth. He’s creating a problem and selling the solution. Blue literally has no incentive for me, ironically enough I’ve been told having it doesn’t even help you get more engagement so it’s a joke right now.
I’m not opposed to a subscription service but you have to give a real reason to people to buy it
I remember seeing the media tab back but it’s not enough to fix a mess
Regarding the "for you" page - MOST developers barely understand how these algo's work. EVEN LESS of them understand the "why" or the "how" of these results. Changing these algo's is akin to just blindly pulling levers on a machine hoping for what appears to be a good result. It's very likely that no one left who understands how to effectively tweak these things. Change one little weight value or remove a paramater? BOOM everyone gets death on their timeline.
Shocking how firing everyone at Twitter has made the platform worse
Wait, you’re saying that firing everyone who has experience and replacing them with a bunch of yes-men is a bad idea?
My guess about the gore stuff is that it's likely the same group that will occasionally spam FA with a bunch of real life gore/criminal evidence pictures. The difference here is that FA has at least competent enough staff that are immediately on top of it whenever it happens and very quickly removes them while Twitter doesn't really have a staff to do that. I'd imagine that the group that does that crap likely figured out they could get away with it on Twitter -shrug-. I don't remember if they come from 4chan or specifically a real life gore enthusiasts forum, either way they're crappy people because they be posting that stuff with out any tags/warnings/whatever which of course results in people being subjected to terrible stuff.
are they having another gore spam again? I remember the whole scare on twitter a few years back where videos would be laced with those gore videos, so you could very well be watching some cute video on cats then see some guy get his head chopped off. Was some scary shit man, i wouldn't be surprised if the gore intensified because of the whole dumb checkmark.
Musk fired all the moderators and even a lot of the staff that work on the core systems. He even tried to fire people he couldn't legally fire (referring to Halli, which is a crazy story in itself). It's no wonder the platform barely functions as it is.
@@RyuFitzgerald Musk "didn't have a choice" because he overpaid out of the ass for Twitter and took out giant loans for his purchase at a time when interest rates were at a 30 year high. The interest he pays on his purchase is why he's in such a dire position financially, and it's nobody's fault but his own. Those employees didn't ask or want a billionaire to single-handedly buy their company and basically bankrupt the company before new management even arrived, but that's what happened. Musk did have a choice, he could've chose not to feed his own ego and obsession with tweeting by buying a $44 Billion company that's now valued under $20 Billion only months later.
@@RyuFitzgerald It absolutely does matter what Musk paid for it, because those loans automatically became Twitter's own debt, i.e. Musk basically forced the company into massive debt and yearly interest fees that it could not possibly pay off - this is why Musk fired nearly all of Twitter's employees. He's basically pulling out every stop to try to make Twitter turn a profit, or at the very least pay off their interest payments (thus his asinine "Twitter Blue" debacle), all so it doesn't go bankrupt from the interest rates alone. Buying Twitter for $44 Billion was such a terrible decision that it basically doomed the company and all its employees before the business even turned ownership, ensuring the company would spiral and snowball into more debt unless drastic changes were made. In other words, all this shit is 100% Musk's fault.
While you're correct tech companies are laying off workers, layoffs of 80-90% of all employees is beyond insane. For perspective, Disney laid off thousands of workers that accounted for 3-4% of its headcount. Facebook (or should I say, "Meta") is one of the most drastic examples considering they also spent upwards of $36 Billion on the failed Metaverse. After spending nearly as much money as Musk on Twitter, it still has only laid off 12% of its workforce so far. There are announcements that this number may rise in the next year, but even their worst projections has a max overall reduction of 25% of their headcount. In other words, what Musk is doing is so unprecedented that even Meta's colossal fuckup with the Metaverse doesn't even come close to the complete mismanagement and dumpster fire that Twitter has unfortunately become - likely why everyone is seeing NSFW, gore and snuff videos on their For You timelines & many of their core systems just stop working suddenly from time to time.
I'm having an issue with my following sections where people who I don't even follow are showing up there and it's not like someone retweeting something it's just random people.
Thank you for the explanation. I was so confused by all the different check marks 😓