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I’d actually be willing to pay for blue-like backend features that have no visible profile affordances. Selling fun affiliation badges or NFT display ability is also fine. Pretending the platform’s verification responsibility is a status “product” is just deeply disingenuous.
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Contra many people's take on this, I don't think the bluecheck was *ever* an actual status symbol. Where it did not actually point to an external credential that needed verification protection, it was a lolcow badge only ever made fun of. The insult was the canonical perception.
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> [the bluecheck] was a lolcow badge only ever made fun of hmm I don't think this is actually true. An analogy is yachts: I don't think I've ever heard of anyone talk about yacht owners in a positive light, and yet they still get bought as, and work as, a status symbol.
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Hmm. When did you get your blue check? Because after 2017 or so you have been the biggest scam/impersonation risk around. If you hadn’t gotten it and I was twitter security I’d probably have enforced it anyway.
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The NIMBY vibes from blue checks, esp. ones who's "fame" is primarily from social media, are off the charts. Like a bunch of poors are about to destroy their property values. That home, that Oscar, is bolted to their identity. We're seeing them go through the stages of grief.
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