Mike Masnick @masnick.com · Jun 15 Was trying to find something on X for a story and opened up the site to be greeted with... whatever the fuck this is... The world's richest man is putting a paywall over the site he claimed was the all important global town square.
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Laughable
Maybe, just maybe, this’ll be the final push off the site for gov’t and commercial groups who think it’s still an effective communication mechanism to anyone other than toxic Muskovites.
He thinks the $4.20 price is funny and edgy.
extremely comcastic
I mean...good? Seems closer to the whole thing shutting down.
Ooo, oooo - SuperGrok!
the fuck is a handle marketplace
And that is how he becomes a *Trillionaire. . . . . . . . . *Note this in NO WAY an endorsement of Elon or anyone else becoming a Trillionaire.
This is absolutely skeezy and I was thrown by it too recently, but it's just a splash page -- there is a very very tiny x in one of the upper corners to close it.
god as a former content designer there seeing “less” instead of “fewer” and all the random caps are making me stabby
Supergrok FML and fuck that dude
The enclosure movement doesn’t really work if people can just _opt out_ of the whole arrangement.
Of course it's $4.20 a month.
I don’t pay 20 bucks a month for anything. Disney isn’t that expensive.
The $4.20 I get of course, but which marketing twit came up with $32.92? Down to $19.75 is also a mystery (and a travesty for that matter).
What's the rate for fascist bot horde herders?
Great way to kill the site faster
Thank goodness. Maybe the paywall will reduce visitation.
4.20 man he is SO FUNNY
LOL SpaceKaren needs to generate revenue from somewhere to prop up that over inflated stock price. Deleted my account in November 2022 and I've not missed it for a nanosecond.
Someone should ask Grok about the proper grammar for "less ads in your feeds"
"You know what's cool? TWO trillion dollars."
Hopefully this makes even more people leave that site.
Who is paying for all the bots?
$4.20 what a fucking loser
I took a peek and my "offer" is $5.75. ??
4.20/mo hrrr hrrrr weed number hrrrr
Two bit chiseler
Do we know if it's 420 because of Hitlers birthday or weed?
The Paywall may do what the Fascism never did - drive a mass exodus from the site. I resisted using Xodus. Oh damn!
It's not uncommon for miserable lonely people to become hoarders. He has zero need for these tiny bits of cash. He's a full-blown hoarder now. There's help for this.
@masnick.com xcancel.com
At least it will further encourage sane people to leave.
Isn’t SuperGrok a Rick James song?