Ryan Mac

An opt out, you know, I am resigning as opposed to I am staying, you know, because he learned from that.

But that methodology is one he learned from Twitter and he somewhat relished that chaos that was created, you know, this kind of free for all survival, the fittest kind of thing.

Yeah.

I mean, that certainly happened in the early days.

There was the Eli Lilly tweet, if you remember that.

What was that?

There was a fake Eli Lilly account that bought- This is a pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical company bought the blue check mark and said, you know, insulin is free.

And it went viral.

The stock, I think, dropped.

Wow.

A couple percentage points because of that.

And then Eli Lilly had to come out with a statement that was like, that's not us.

But now those blue checks are meaningless on the platform.

You know, in the past, again, the system was not perfect and you could game it certainly.

But at least there was like a reference point that that person was verified by the company.

As journalists, right?

And that really pissed off Elon because he would be like, there's some intern from Business Insider who's emailing me for comment.

Why does he have a blue check?

Yeah.