The day has finally come. Elon Musk’s Twitter has begun purging blue check marks off legacy verified users who don't pay for the subscription for it.
Now, if you don't use Twitter and don't know what that is, essentially — long, long before Elon bought the company — Twitter would give blue checkmarks to celebrities, journalists, companies, notable people, etc., as a way to verify/confirm their account to other Twitter users and let them know that it was really them. The checkmark was also free.
After Elon took over, he looked at ways to make the company more profitable (I am not even going to get into all of it here), and one way was to sell the blue checkmarks — essentially making it so any account can get one. This, of course, made many legacy verified users wonder what type of value there is in paying for a checkmark that anyone can get.
And today, after several threats that he would remove the blue checkmark from non-paying users, the great Elon Snap happened and everyone is losing their verification mark. TBH, Twitter users are actually celebrating this. So, I rounded up some funny tweets about this whole snafu:
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Now I’m nervous the blue check mark won’t go away
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Me counting all the celebrities who’ve lost their blue check mark
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BLUE CHECKMARK GONE
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Liza Minnellli has outlived the @LizaOutlives blue check mark. Twitter mercilessly purged them from users who did not sign up for its subscription service.
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..... annnnd there's goes my blue check mark, goodbye .... I'm no longer me, I'm just an imposter, a hollow sham of who I used to be ..... *sob*
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They make take away my Blue Check Mark, but they’ll never take away my IMDb credits!
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damn. rip my blue check mark. u got me laid at least one time, gone but never forgotten <\3
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Go to hell blue check mark. Respectfully.
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You keep your #bluecheckmark, @Twitter, we'll keep our Fresh-Baked Bread 😉
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I don’t need a #BlueCheckMark to confirm that my life is a hot mess
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Seeing who didn't make it through the #BlueCheckMark Snap...
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keeping all those suffering with loss of blue check mark in my prayers during this difficult time😞🙏🏻
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😂😂
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they really took his check
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Feeling totally validated that Beyoncé chose to stay blue check-free like the rest of us #BlueCheckMark
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Looks like me and @Beyonce both have no #BlueCheckMark so we got that going for us
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“Is the blue check mark in the room with us right now?”
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Having never had a blue check mark, I feel a bit like someone wearing shoes that have suddenly become fashionable again.
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us rn without our blue check mark
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No more blue check mark, but at least my space ship didn’t explode this morning
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Blue check mark Twitter today:
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#NewProfilePic