Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from beyond the grave

Re:Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from b... by lapcat on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:21AM (#35688009)

To me it seems obvious that this was in response to the BlockTheBlue campaign. A number of high-profile accounts with over a million followers, @dril for example, were telling people to block every blue checkmark. Forcing blue checkmarks back on these high-profile accounts put an end to the BlockTheBlue campaign, because then they can't say "you should block me".

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Re:Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from b... by dragonwriter on Monday April 24, 2023 @10:35AM (#35688167)

Well, it shifted it from “Block the Blue” to “I’m not actually paying for this shit” from the falsely-labelled “subscribers” (well, except the dead ones, who are pretty quiet about it), with a possible side order of legal action for the Lanham Act violations (and if the Disney Junior UK mistake of gifting false “verified organization” status to a parody account of a real brand isn’t an isolated incident, possibly some additional legal fun…)

Actually, the first part isn’t even true; lots of the “Block the Blue” types given Blue are still doing Block the Blue (and leveraging the “changing your display name when you have Blue suspends your checkmark” policy, too.) But they’ve added “I’m not actually paying for this shit” on top of “block the blue”.

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Re:Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from b... by hezralig on Monday April 24, 2023 @02:11PM (#35691099)

No it did not.

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Re:Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from b... by rideontime on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:32AM (#35688892)

Has it put an end to the campaign, though? People are just changing their display names to get rid of the dreaded white checkmark on blue background.

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