Or maybe—hear me out—Elon isn’t a genius who is always playing 4d chess. Maybe he’s a dog who caught the car and doesn’t know what to do with it. Charging for the check mark defeats the entire purpose of the check mark. It’s not calculated, it’s stupid.

I will leave Twitter and not lose a wink of sleep over it if they ever charge me a single cent and I am confident that the vast, vast majority of users will do the same. If he doesn’t realize that then he’s even dumber than he’s seemingly been trying to make himself appear with his push polls, leading questions, and bad memes that he’s been rambling off in an attempt to win people back over ever since he got publicly embarrassed by being forced to buy this company at a loss.

My advice? Mute his account. Block every ad account. And the second someone demands you pay money for a social media account, delete the app. We control the economy, not people like Elon. We vote with our attention and our dollar. Stop voting for that guy, please for the love of god.