If you pay either price every month as a subscription, what does that $20 verification thing do other than expensively add a little graphic after your name? Hav

If you pay either price every month as a subscription, what does that $20 verification thing do other than expensively add a little graphic after your name? Having a subscription at all assumes they already know who you are via however you pay it every month. Remember the gem scam on iphone? This is that all over again, since all you get out of it for the extra money is a checkmark graphic.