 Something tells me that Elon Musk's new Twitter blue program isn't going to win back the advertisers that fled the platform. So for those of you who don't know, anyone can now become verified in the event they pay $8 to Twitter. And I don't think that this is going to bode well for brands whose number one priority is brand safety. Let me show you what I mean by that. A verified Nintendo of America account tweeted this image of Mario giving the middle finger, and this image remained up for hours before it was taken down. Oh, no. Now, Elon Musk already knows, based on conversations that advertisers have claimed that they had with him, that brand safety is the number one priority of advertisers. So now if anyone can become a parody account of a major brand and gains lots of lots of traction, it's going to be kind of a disaster for advertisers. They're not going to want their brand associated with that hellscape. And I've got to say, the parodies have run wild on Twitter, and it is absolutely hilarious. TMZ reports Twitter paid verified check causes frenzy after fake LeBron trade tweet. And the tweet in question is a verified LeBron James account saying, I am officially requesting a trade. Thank you, Lakers Nation, for all the support through the years on to bigger and better things. Now, TMZ is probably overstating the frenzy that this caused because they cited no examples. But I've got to say, you know, even with that being said, if Elon Musk's true goal was to cleanse the site of bots, the opposite has happened with the rollout of the new Twitter Blue program. Because if you open up the door to anyone paying $8 for a verification, there's going to be some that think the laughs are worth the $8 alone. So here's some examples of very high profile verified accounts gaining lots of traction. So a verified Ben Shapiro account tweeted, Matt Walsh won't stop calling me and talking about genitalia. A verified President Biden tweeted, I'm over here stroking my dick. I got a lotion on my dick right now. George W. Bush tweeted, I miss killing Iraqis and a verified Tony Blair responded saying, same to be honest. Now, if you look at the header of this George Bush account, it reads, So what if I did 9 11? Beautiful. You love to see it. Also, Jesus Christ is now on the platform. So why pray when you can just tweet directly at our Holy Lord and the Savior? So that's convenient. You've got a verified Dave Chappelle tweeting out support for trans rights, a verified OJ Simpson confessing to murder. And you've got different versions of Pope Francis conversing with dead historical figures tweeting about popping champagne and whatnot. It's just hilarious. But it gets even more absurd. So a verified Ben Shapiro tweeted, I have always wondered what a woman's body feels like and looks like in real life without clothes. That would be so cool. Now a verified Ted Cruz responded to the verified Ben Shapiro saying, The first time I entered my human wife, I said groaning into her ear. This is exactly how mother said it would feel. Now Ben Shapiro responded to that saying, OMG, you got me kind of horny right now, Mr. Cruz, to which Ted responds saying, Have you ever tasted the entrails of a man Ben? There is no carnal pleasure as delectable. Ben responds by saying, Ted stop, they aren't supposed to know about us and then share this cursed image of a human with I guess a dear body. I don't really know what I'm looking at, but it's it's terrifying. So this Elon Musk is what happens when you open up verification to anyone who's willing to pay $8 mass chaos ensues, and the bots increase in their numbers. Now I want to share a one minute 40 second ish audio clip of Elon Musk during a Q&A Twitter space events. And he is asked about the insanity that ensued following the rollout of Twitter blue. And his response is just so genuinely stupid. It's almost funny. So let's listen at checkmark used to stand for something. Now, anyone that pays $8 a month can get the checkmark. What's the what's the process by which accounts are verified in in this new world? Well, it is a I mean, someone has to have a phone and a credit card and $8 a month. So it that that's the bar. However, we will actively suspend accounts engaged in deception or trickery of any kind. So it is a leveling of the playing field here. The it will be less special, obviously to have a checkmark. But I think this is a good thing. So if somebody if it likes it, if there's impersonation, trickery, deception, we will actively be suspending accounts. So I think it's gonna be a good world. I mean, you know, don't don't don't we believe in, you know, one person one boat? I think we do. You know. So I actually just don't I don't like the loads and peasants situation where some people have blue checkmarks and and some don't and this is, you know, at least in the United States, we fought a war to get get rid of that stuff. So anyway, this is just thought post-opically how I feel and maybe this is a dumb decision, but we'll see. Maybe this is a dumb decision, but we'll see. Because you know, one person one vote, how can anyone still claim that this man is a genius? He has demonstrated time and again throughout the course of the last couple of weeks in particular, that he has a gigantic dumb ass rolling out massive sweeping changes to this platform with millions and millions of active users each month with no care, no concern, rolling out a change, then changing it a couple of hours later, it's just genuine insanity. And he's showing how stupid he is. And I love how he referred to what Twitter used to be as a lords and peasant system. And so now by making the peasants pay $8 per month for something that notable people get for free. Apparently that's evening out the playing field. That doesn't make sense because look, I was verified on Twitter before Twitter blue rolled out and he hinted that he'll be taking away the verification of people who were previously verified. So that's fine. I'm not paying. But I'm getting Twitter verification for free and other people have to pay $8. That's just inherently unfair. The Twitter verification process was certainly stupid and needed to perform. But the way that you even the playing field by making $8 mandatory for verification is supposedly more democratic. He just the ways that he thinks aloud about these ideas. It proves that this man is a dumb ass. And he's also a really terrible boss. So in his first company wide email, he paints a very grim picture for the platform saying the economic picture ahead is dire and adding without significant subscription revenue, there was a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription. Yeah, good luck with that. Now he goes on to announce an end to remote work saying starting tomorrow, Thursday, everyone is required to be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week. So it seems like Elon Musk is a very great boss. I'm being sarcastic, of course, he is emailing them with terrible news saying the company might not survive. And he's saying, Oh, also, if you're working remotely, you've got to come in now. That's done. I don't understand why bosses impose this on their employees if they're just as productive working remotely. But I mean, it's Elon Musk. So you can't begin to fathom what's going on in his mind is probably just emptiness and tumbleweeds. But the man is a fucking idiot and a tyrant. And I think that these past couple of weeks should confirm this for anyone who was still in doubt. Now I do want to share this company wide email circulated by Twitter legal, because I think that the first two paragraphs are particularly damning for Elon Musk. This was shared by verge editor, Alex Heath. They write over the last two weeks, Elon has shown that he cares only about recouping the losses he's incurring as a result of failing to get out of his binding obligation to buy Twitter. He chose to enter into that agreement. Elon has shown that his only priority with Twitter users is how to monetize them. I do not believe he cares about the human rights activists, the dissidents, our users in unmonetizable regions, and all the other users who have made Twitter the global town square that you all have spent so long building and we all love. And I think that that's absolutely correct. Now there were also resignations from Twitter from pretty prominent individuals. And it just it's there's so many reports about the sheer chaos. I've seen one person I can't remember who described it as the Trump White House where it's chaos, insanity. There's high stress. People are leaving and changes are being made and then reversed. And it's just really an unstable environment, especially if you work there. But in terms of him trying to get 50% of users to convert to paid $8 per month Twitter blue users, that's just delusional. That's not going to happen. So if he doesn't find a business model to make Twitter profitable, then he's in danger. And as he continues to scramble, it's going to get worse and more chaotic. And I just feel really bad for the people that work at Twitter. But I've got to say I am enjoying at least the effect that he's having on Twitter because you have everyone dunking on him all in unison. And you have this influx of parody accounts that have taken over Twitter. And the platform has just become more enjoyable. So even if it's become more enjoyable and it may not be long for this world, I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts because I honestly haven't had this much fun on Twitter in a while. He even considered or at least floated it openly, making it mandatory that you pay $8 per month to use Twitter. And I guarantee you the website will not survive if it does that. Even if YouTube did something like that with billions of active users per month, they will not survive. So you can't just make something that was previously free, a pay for service. You can't put it behind a pay wall and expect people to still stay, but he's willing to try anything if it makes him a profit. Because again, as Twitter legal points it out, he's mad that he was forced to buy Twitter when he got himself into this mess and now it's profit or the whole ship is going to go down. It's sad but also funny in a variety of ways. But it's sad for the employees. I really feel bad for what they're going through behind the scenes.