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Why are celebrities so pissed about losing the badge? Steven King went viral threatening to leave the platform and I and everybody pointing fingers at Elon and

Why are celebrities so pissed about losing the badge? Steven King went viral threatening to leave the platform and I and everybody pointing fingers at Elon and I’m just here thinking “why does Steven King care so badly?”

Jerrrry 4y ago
- favorited 4y ago
  In the last decade, King has published 16 novels & 2 short story collections, has had over a dozen of his works adapted for film and nearly as many again for television. More adaptions are planned for release this year and next. He is as relevant and influential today as he ever has been.
nradov 4y ago
It's just the usual sense of entitlement common amongst celebrities. If they receive a certain privilege for a while then they think they're entitled to it forever, even if they haven't done anything to earn it. But as a business, Twitter doesn't want to kill off their advertising revenue. I'm not a fan of Stephen King and don't care what he thinks, but his followers probably bring in more than $8 of ad revenue.
mrguyorama 4y ago
The biggest benefit of the blue checkmark is it allows certain people with notoriety to counter fake accounts by saying "The company running this website has been convinced this account is controlled by the actual important person instead of someone running bitcoin based scams" Charging for that is just hostile to the community at large. It basically holds everyone hostage. How do you know the account you are looking at is controlled by the "actual" person in question? At least, probably I think this is an issue.
- keneda7 4y ago
  I have to disagree. The blue check mark does not verify who you are. It verified your political ideology matched up with that of the blue check mark committee. Half the US population is already being held hostage by that group. You seem perfectly okay with those people being held hostage but then complain when a rule is applied equally to everyone. Seems to me your idea is: rules for thee but not for me.
  - mikkergp 4y ago
    Candace Owens is Verified, Trump was Verified, Ben Shapiro is verified, Ron Desantis is verified, Trump Jr is verified, Tom Cotton is verified. These are the people who's political ideology matches up with the blue check mark committee? Then again so is Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi. Who is the other half of the US population being held hostage by that group. Do you really think Communists make up 50% of the US population?
    - _-david-_ 4y ago
      I don't think anybody is saying people on the right aren't verified. They are saying those on the right are not verified as often. There are lot of people on the left who aren't really well known and have the blue check, but those on the right who aren't well known don't have the check. I don't know the veracity of the claim though.
      - mikkergp 4y ago
        I can’t speak for anyone else but the person I responded to said, unqualified “ The blue check mark does not verify who you are. It verified your political ideology matched up with that of the blue check mark committee. ”
        _-david-_ 4y ago
        I know. I think they left out a qualification which is why I piped in about what I perceive the actual point was.
jbirer 4y ago
Celebrities are people whose lives revolve around status. A blue icon loss might be funny to you and me, but to them it causes real distress because their Narcissistic self depends on such minor status symbols. It's really sad.
slowmovintarget 4y ago
Progressives have officially (in the meme sense) decided Elon is a right-wing puppet. Anything he does must therefore be considered evil. Therefore, this change in Twitter policy is evil. Stephen King cares because he aligns with the Progressive Left as his tribe. It doesn't matter whether the policy is equally fair, it only matters whether it possibly allows people on the political Right to start speaking on Twitter again. Not that this move guarantees anything like that, but it is perceived that this could be the result. tl;dr: Stephen King has been led to believe this is the plan to get Trump back on Twitter.

Jerrrry 4y ago

favorited 4y ago
In the last decade, King has published 16 novels & 2 short story collections, has had over a dozen of his works adapted for film and nearly as many again for television. More adaptions are planned for release this year and next. He is as relevant and influential today as he ever has been.

nradov 4y ago

It's just the usual sense of entitlement common amongst celebrities. If they receive a certain privilege for a while then they think they're entitled to it forever, even if they haven't done anything to earn it. But as a business, Twitter doesn't want to kill off their advertising revenue. I'm not a fan of Stephen King and don't care what he thinks, but his followers probably bring in more than $8 of ad revenue.

mrguyorama 4y ago

The biggest benefit of the blue checkmark is it allows certain people with notoriety to counter fake accounts by saying "The company running this website has been convinced this account is controlled by the actual important person instead of someone running bitcoin based scams" Charging for that is just hostile to the community at large. It basically holds everyone hostage. How do you know the account you are looking at is controlled by the "actual" person in question? At least, probably I think this is an issue.

keneda7 4y ago
I have to disagree. The blue check mark does not verify who you are. It verified your political ideology matched up with that of the blue check mark committee. Half the US population is already being held hostage by that group. You seem perfectly okay with those people being held hostage but then complain when a rule is applied equally to everyone. Seems to me your idea is: rules for thee but not for me.
- mikkergp 4y ago
  Candace Owens is Verified, Trump was Verified, Ben Shapiro is verified, Ron Desantis is verified, Trump Jr is verified, Tom Cotton is verified. These are the people who's political ideology matches up with the blue check mark committee? Then again so is Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi. Who is the other half of the US population being held hostage by that group. Do you really think Communists make up 50% of the US population?
  - _-david-_ 4y ago
    I don't think anybody is saying people on the right aren't verified. They are saying those on the right are not verified as often. There are lot of people on the left who aren't really well known and have the blue check, but those on the right who aren't well known don't have the check. I don't know the veracity of the claim though.
    - mikkergp 4y ago
      I can’t speak for anyone else but the person I responded to said, unqualified “ The blue check mark does not verify who you are. It verified your political ideology matched up with that of the blue check mark committee. ”
      - _-david-_ 4y ago
        I know. I think they left out a qualification which is why I piped in about what I perceive the actual point was.

jbirer 4y ago

Celebrities are people whose lives revolve around status. A blue icon loss might be funny to you and me, but to them it causes real distress because their Narcissistic self depends on such minor status symbols. It's really sad.

slowmovintarget 4y ago

Progressives have officially (in the meme sense) decided Elon is a right-wing puppet. Anything he does must therefore be considered evil. Therefore, this change in Twitter policy is evil. Stephen King cares because he aligns with the Progressive Left as his tribe. It doesn't matter whether the policy is equally fair, it only matters whether it possibly allows people on the political Right to start speaking on Twitter again. Not that this move guarantees anything like that, but it is perceived that this could be the result. tl;dr: Stephen King has been led to believe this is the plan to get Trump back on Twitter.