Epic Games CEO Gets Dunked On For Buying Twitter Blue, Calls Everyone "Losers"
After weeks of relative calm, Elon Musk has clumsily introduced yet another sweeping change to Twitter, causing a whole host of problems many of us saw coming a mile away. Yep, he finally got rid of all legacy checkmarks, meaning that anyone with a tick next to their name has paid for Twitter Blue. Well, not everyone. Some celebs were given one for free, for some reason. But we'll touch on that later.
Of course, this has led to celebrities leaving the platform, such as Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, and other users impersonating brands and high-profile figures. But perhaps most heartbreaking for Musk, his precious Twitter Blue subscribers are getting made fun of, including Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeney.
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It all started when unverified users started the #BlockTheBlue campaign. As the name suggests, this encourages users to go through the verified tab and block anyone who has paid for Twitter Blue, making their attempt to boost their accounts fruitless.
Sweeney, however, with his $11 checkmark in hand, didn't find this particularly amusing.
"People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons," says Sweeney. "They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred."
He goes on to say that the old days of Twitter, before verification was introduced, was a "meritocracy", where likes and retweets ensued to "the best rose to the top." Then, he says checkmarks "broke the meritocracy with a policy deeming verification only for elite 'noteworthy' users."
"It was doled out to friends of employees without identity verification or
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