>So really no I wouldn't hear of him

I guess if you never step foot into a library, bookstore, movie theatre, etc. Sure.

King does not sell books because of his presence on a social network. He sold 350 million copies of his books before Twitter was even invented.

"die hard fans" the only ones to hear of King? Big lol.

He wrote his best works before most of his readers were online at all.

He’s highly culturally relevant, but not because of anything he’s done lately.

This is just special pleading. You need to do better than "I don't care about his recent work".

You misread what I'm saying. Obviously I would hear his name but I would not be checking what he's posting about online. Which is clearly the situation for a giant writer like King.

Is Elon going to also ban links to stephenking.com if he doesn't pay $8?

I was assuming you might have Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, or go to the bookstore or library or movies.

None of those things include what stephen kings is thinking about today.