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(art by charles saxon, caption by dril)

#the dril yorker #dril pencils #charles saxon #scare that pussy stupid

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If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with over 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Block The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name. (It seems really wild to tie the blue check to the display name and not use the username, but it became necessary after the era where all those legacy verified folks unleashed their inner Jaboukie and changed their display names to Elon Musk. As recently as last month a legacy verified user with 100k followers got banned for impersonating JK Rowling apologizing to trans people.) So dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

#Twitter #Elon Musk #twitanic #most of you probably followed me for d20 stuff and didn't know I was a Twitter Refugee #I'm in great company (Chuck Tingle is a Twitter refugee as well)

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took immense psychic damage upon seeing an article about dril in the new yorker

#no

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Jia Tolentino has finally addressed the issue of our nation’s big, elite, adult boys

#the new yorker #large adult sons #mike huckabee #rowdy boys #dril

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The year is 2043. New Yorker cartoons have been replaced by screenshots of shitposts. Dril is the editor in charge of the section.

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#spiderman #the dril yorker #multiverse #jeremy nguyen

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#tom toro #the least you can do is fuck my car pal #drilpencils #the dril yorker

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(cartoon by mike twohy, caption by dril)

#twohy #tiny dicks & fucked up brains #the dril yorker

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(cartoon by james stevenson, caption by dril)

#stevenson #i have read theposts #the dril yorker

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#noth #the dril yorker #europe

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(cartoon by george booth, caption by dril)

#booth #fuckweb #the dril yorker

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(cartoon by joe dator, caption by dril)

#dator #superman #drilpencils #the dril yorker #doing 9/11

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(cartoon by frank modell, caption by dril)

#the dril yorker #frank modell

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(cartoon by paul noth, caption by dril)

#caesars last words #the dril yorker #noth

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(cartoon by emily flake, caption by dril)

#emily flake #the dril yorker #gotta hand it to them

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#holidays #santa #the dril yorker #thompson