Why would anyone be asking for this several months ago when the $8 blue checkmark wasn’t even a thing then or not even suggested by Musk at that point. And bes

Why would anyone be asking for this several months ago when the $8 blue checkmark wasn’t even a thing then or not even suggested by Musk at that point. And besides, at the time Twitter had already solved its impersonation of public figures problem for many years now with the introduction of the…blue checkmark… Elon took a successful solution, trashed it, personally faced the consequences of doing so and came up with a completely ad hoc solution which negates one of the two things he promised he bought Twitter to do.