"$7.99/month if you sign up now": Hey, this price hike (from $4.99 to $7.99) is just the start! "Blue checkmark: Power to the people": We've heard that there's

"$7.99/month if you sign up now": Hey, this price hike (from $4.99 to $7.99) is just the start! "Blue checkmark: Power to the people": We've heard that there's long been confusion over what qualifies some people to be "verified", and we're solving that problem by making the blue checkmark just mean "this person is giving us money!" "Half the ads & much better ones": Who wouldn't want to pay for better ads! "Priority ranking for quality content": Because if you're giving us $8 a month, what you say must be higher-quality than those plebes who aren't! In short, our best days are absolutely ahead, and we are absolutely not preparing an "Our Incredible Journey" post just, you know, in case! (Seriously, we can't, because we laid off all our writers.)