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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yeah, when people say Twitter is better than ever, in a way they're right. Seeing a bunch of tech bros and right wing grifters being baffled at how famous people (even totally non-political ones) are going out of their way to not be associated with those who are paying for Twitter has been hilarious. I think they're finally close to realizing how little cultural cachet they actually have.
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The constant chiding of celebrities who have said little more than “I don’t want this” when it comes to verification is a hilariously bleak view into the minds of these people.
They spent all this time begging for verification to mean nothing and to be non-exclusive, and as soon as the only people who made verification mean anything say, “Ok, you win, I don’t care about it or want it,” they lose their mind about how it’s a “gift” or how awful they are for not wanting to pay $8 for something that has become meaningless.
The Twitter verification thing is like a real life production of Dr Seuss’s The Sneetches. Everyone wants a star, but as soon as everyone can have a star then the people who had them in the first place don’t want them, effectively making the star a negative symbol instead of positive one. And that’s just one of a countless list of hilarious things on that app. Love it.