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INTEREST: Official Naruto Post: Creator Masashi Kishimoto Doesn't Post on Social Media

Verification still exists, it's just yellow and grey checkmarks now and more regulated and limited to companies and politicians. You can see the yellow checkmark for the official Naruto account in the thumbnail for this article. The main issue in the past was blue checkmarks were initially meant to be mere verification, i.e. someone scans in a photo of their ID to confirm their identity and whatnot, but it quickly deteriorated into a bit of a elitist club granting a calique of people special perks and privileges with guaranteed priority placement in newsfeeds, who-to-follow suggestions, hashtag searched, and other factors. It quickly became less about verifying identity and more of a Cool Kid's club. Opening it up to being a simple buy-in system fixed that. Of course, the people used to the privilege weren't happy they have to share now since when you're used to privilege then equal treatment can seem like discrimination.

Don't blame Musk. Nothing has fundamentally changed. Twitter has always been a hypocritical filthy cesspool beneath the surface. I was personally receiving death threats and finding posts on the original twitter encouraging others to locate and shoot me with an oddly specific weapon. When I reported this to Twitter, I was told that no policies were violated and thus the posts would not be removed.

This is still very much a problem on Twitter even under Musk so no we can blame him too. Especially when this guy has posts hidden that use the word “cis” or he actively boosts users who engage in openly homophobic/racists/misogynistic behavior.