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Elon Musk hilariously trolls the #BlocktheBlue movement

We’ve been having a lot of fun with the prolonged meltdown of liberals losing their blue checks, but let’s take a moment to cut through the fog and talk about what this is really about.

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It’s not the fear of impersonation. Twitter still has a policy against impersonation that applies whether you have a blue check or not. And any famous person can just pin a video to the top of their feed that says ‘I’m so-and-so and @_______ is my Twitter handle. No other account is really me.’ Problem solved.

And, certainly, for celebrities or corporate accounts, it isn’t about the cost. LeBron James didn’t need Elon Musk’s help to buy a blue check and a corporate account with any income to speak of is unlikely to have a similar problem. It’s just $8 a month.

This is about wanting Twitter to fail under Elon Musk because they hate the way he has made the platform fairer. They don’t want Twitter to have the extra income and one group is trying to deny to the new blue checks one of the benefits of the program: greater reach.

Thus, a movement called ‘Block the Blue’ (often using the hashtag #BlockTheBlue) has sprung up where people would block every blue check they come across.

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Most popular? Only one of them cracks a million followers.

In any case, this is where the trolling started:

He even insisted he didn’t really pay for it:

Methinks he protests too much.

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She is literally confusing an automated process of review with permanent removal. Whenever you change your name on Twitter, Twitter removes the blue check automatically, to make sure a blue check doesn’t impersonate anyone else. The check will probably return in a day or two.

He’s right. They should quit Twitter entirely in protest.

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And apparently, this might mess with a computer program.

In any case, allegedly most legacy users got good news:

And Elon Musk denies that he is being a troll:

But T(w)itter Daily News has the goods on Musk:

And, of course, the hilarity goes on:

Seriously, did anyone care what Jason Alexander said on Twitter? We literally don’t remember him saying anything interesting.

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Did he say it was madness?

But not every celebrity has been having a meltdown over the blue check. Lynda Carter, the O.G. Wonder Woman, decided to have fun with it:

Finally, Yair Rosenburg makes a good point…

Sure, get technical

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