Epic Games boss defends Twitter, calls #BlocktheBlue supporters 'losers and goons'
Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has weighed in on the discourse about blue checkmarks on Twitter, saying that people supporting the «Block the Blue» campaign are «losers and goons» who are trying to exclude people from «cool kid events.»
It's fair to say that Twitter has been a goat rodeo since Elon Musk took control of the company in late 2022, but things took a turn for the even stupider last week. After months of waffling and fake-outs, Twitter finally eliminated legacy verification checks(opens in new tab), meaning that the only people with the little checkmarks on their accounts were those who were paying $8 per month for a Twitter Blue subscription.
A few of the old check-holders remained: Xbox men Phil Spencer(opens in new tab) and Larry Hryb(opens in new tab), for instance, kept their blue checks because they're affiliated with the official Xbox(opens in new tab) account, which now has a gold check, signifying that it's verified as «an official organization on Twitter.» For the most part, though, the «verified» blue checks were gone.
Rather than encouraging people to sign up for Twitter Blue, though, the new program had the opposite effect. Celebrities immediately and easily turned their backs on the whole thing, leading right-wing figures who had previously complained about being 'censored' on Twitter started complaining that the new program they'd embraced now had no value. Many seemed genuinely baffled by the notion that celebrities and other high-profile Twitter users want nothing to do with it: «Hollywood celebrities are showing exactly who they are right now — arrogant elitist snobs worth $200 million dollars who won't pay $8 because they think they're better than everyone else,» one said, missing the point in
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