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Elon Musk to Charge $8/Month for Twitter's Blue Check

#checkmark#eightdollars#youtubepremium#belt#twitter
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0:03 ████ that maniacal laugh dude [Music] it is time to talk about our boy Elon again I like it Steve Green's costume and Twitter yes Steve greens that's a good one I didn't get it deleted something ████ Twitter yeah um Twitter so we all know that this guy recently just acquired Twitter it's been a long-standing year-long the whole thing but some crazy changes have been made in literally the recent weeks and stuff what has everybody heard Twitter has been so fun like ever since the Takeover I've been on it every day like before this I was just going on there for like crypto and stocks true but now it's ████ so funny just seeing how he like facts checks the White House check out like all this I'm just like what the

0:53 ████ is what a g bro they just uh actually it just fact checked the White House to the point where the White House deleted a recent tweet yeah and obviously that's good that's even funnier it's bite in a bunch too yeah fast checks bite is not making those tweets bro I know there's you don't even know how to work Apple shakes when he touches his phone man he's like my grandpa I saw the exchange with him and Stephen King about uh wanting to charge people for blue checks and he was like 20 bucks a month it's eight dollars actually so and then Stephen King was like 20 get the ████ out of here I'm out of here I'm not gonna pay 20 for this and then Elon was saying like oh well we gotta we can't make sure we can't make Twitter only rely on advertisements like what about eight dollars a month anyone can get verified by just paying the thing or if you still have to be verified the usual way and then you pay

1:43 eight bucks I was gonna say everyone just just gonna I'm actually for it because I'm like if you have a blue check mark chances are you're using it for your business yeah that makes sense you're just I mean you pay for whatever like right off johnsmith.com anyways even if you go through GoDaddy you gotta ████ pay right or whatever the hottest site on the deck right so I'm like if you're gonna use Twitter for your business platform to get a blue check mark which is why you have a blue check mark then you might as well pay for it I don't know why they're complaining about eight bucks because I just spent more than that on this beautiful meal worth it it's the idea that people don't like paying for something they were already getting free yeah dude didn't you say like you're still getting to use Twitter for free yeah you could be a regular user not have a blue checkbook but then they'll read

2:33 everything but but then the eight dollars even with the blue check mark now you get like more or something like there's something to it like if you have a blue check mark you could still use it for free it's not like you can't you know but then now you get to hold the blue check mark will cost users eight dollars a month uh just to hold blue checklist to retain the verification otherwise you're just a regular user yeah I think that's dope if you don't pay it it gets taken away yeah yeah so then if you don't want your car get it taken away yeah I like that different colors if you didn't pay you get a red check what would the red check mark be yeah you will for for the Eight dollar monthly charge users users will also get priority and replies mentions and search ability to post longer videos and audio half as many ads you know what I mean so it's half as many yeah there there is a value proposition for people that are still a king mad bro Jesus Christ that's

3:25 it that's why it's writing little scary ass stories yeah yeah his life sucks his life sucks that's why I'm trying to scare Kids all the Time JK needs a good rivalry you're my friend God damn it um but yeah he said with the new strategy it'll give Twitter a revenue stream to reward content creators yeah see so you're gonna get that so you're gonna make your money back it's eight bucks that's ████ cool well I don't know I pay for YouTube Red I'm one of the few people that actually pay for it like a dumbass but do you like it when it was YouTube I think it's YouTube something stupid yeah but no ads is probably yeah it's no ads the videos keep playing like when you close the app like I don't know there's other things that you get I forget what regular YouTube was because I don't have it no you don't know that

4:15 life no more yeah we have Premium Too YouTube premium is tight though and you can watch ████ Cobra Kai just being able to watch all your videos and not have like two ads play especially when you go to YouTube it's because you're trying to just receive content right away too but when you don't have ████ really long ads in between every video because you want a video hot but every video hop is another like room for like that's why I can't like watch like Hulu shows sometimes because no matter right when it gets juicy it's like boom regular commercial life back like in the 90s but right now if you get Spectrum you got ████ ads anyways yeah I don't use Spectrum well what how much does YouTube Premium cost I forget I don't know probably the same ████ like 15 a month I don't ████ it's a lot yeah hey if you guys forgot it must not be that much I think when you're a Creator it it it way it works like it makes sense to having it or just the idea of

5:07 being able to continue playing that video while you're using other apps on your phone it's like only YouTube premium can do that and you couldn't do it before and it's like wait a minute that's a ████ small but useful daily yeah it is yeah you know that's true to saving or downloading videos if you don't have service or whatever the ████ so or just use an ad blocker just go ahead and use an ad blocker you got an ad blocker how does that work I need to find one yeah how does that work dude bloggers don't play the ads on your on your yeah is it a software yeah it just ties to your uh browser what would you say if you had to pay a monthly fee to keep your belt black or else it goes back a color well I'm not even a black belt joke's on you dude that'd be hilarious that's like a McDonald's like they help you progress to Black Belt but to maintain it yeah you have to also pay a subscription or else it goes down down down dude that's a model that's for sure

5:57 a business model for a lot of Jesus schools I knew one guy who was kind of like scary and he was like a big ████ masculine dude and he's he started crying because he didn't get his his brown belt as soon as I heard about this I was like you are such a ████ he cried because he didn't get his brown belt he should have been demoted for not being martial art enough that's what I'm saying and he like he he was supposed to win a tournament and if he didn't if he won the tournament he was going to get promoted and he didn't get it so he started crying about it and he was like complaining to the the professor oh God and he promoted himself why do you do that wait what he came in with his own belt and as soon as I found out about that I lost all my respect for him wait I was like dude you're a grown man I was like did his own ceremony he did his own ceremony not even a ceremony he just came in and was like yeah he got the belt off Amazon but doesn't your coach go like yo I never gave that to you yeah

6:47 and that was interesting and then what did he say what he's a grown ass man I guess I'm a brown belt you technically can stop him right can't you just get in there and be like hey if you don't beat me right now if he wants to get beat up and he can get beat up it's not on him it doesn't matter what belt you are yeah you have to get beat up yeah yeah it's not on us if you want to live your if you want to live your life like that go ahead I'm a flash belt see please explain it's just my belly yeah yeah what belt are you I don't flash about I don't wear belts you should add belts to dancing that'd be tight not for who you battle oh dude you'd have the wackest people with the blackest belts really and so many concepts with the belts it's the same thing with like dance studios you get a lot of people that go I've been dancing for 15 years but it still sucks and they look at it

7:37 like time based yeah it's like bro I wouldn't ████ brag about that because it doesn't mean you're good that's the funniest thing it's like when people be like I've been doing this for a lifetime and I'm like and that's all you learn yeah some people are in the studio for so ████ long that they just equate that to being like proficient and it's like yeah that's not how it works yeah elitists yeah that s███'s really funny though I've been a dancer for 50 years and I'm like and that's all you know how to do like damn you sh I'm so surprised I thought you would have been better by now you better know how to tap dance and Bongo I know it's one of those things like you learn so slow why you learn so slow this one went to Bhangra you better know the whole Spectrum you better it's definitely one of those things where if you're talking precedes your action then you're just whack you already know yeah there's a lot of people like that if there's yeah exactly if there's no rep

8:27 that's like unspoken then and you have to tell people how good you are what the ████ is this that's one of my favorite things to do is um is like when people do stuff like that I'm like really that's so ████ cool tell me more you do that to me I like to ████ gas them up dude yeah I'm sitting right here man and then you gas them up and you just wait for that that's nice ████ moment that nice moment and then you so oh really you've been doing that for that long wow I'm so surprised you don't know more ████ that maniacal laugh dude I was talking to a cinematographer the other day he was saying that that same thing happens with like guys who call themselves photographers and then you go to their page and it's just naked chicks they shoot but yeah they just shoot like

9:18 girl hey protect those guys we need more of them if those pictures are good though have you seen that one Russian meme like he's a photographer and he's like taking photos of this girl but he's also in his underwear that's pretty ████ funny he's liking his Speedos and he's taking a picture for her it's like the photographer doesn't need to be in it too for the BTS guy I'm trying to think so we obviously know there's a lot of male photographers that shoot women females but I can't think right now of like a female photographer that only shoots like male models do you guys know I've never even heard of that Bart's done some nudes well who is the camera person she was a female there it is she just Shoots for the

10:09 magazine so it's whatever oh okay but it's not like a specialized yeah but wasn't it Men's Health yeah I was from a lot mostly man that's mostly man I think it's because girls film girls and guys film girls and nobody really wants to film guys unless gay guys yeah that's true like when you see those pages of all dudes it's usually four other dudes yeah like who takes who's the photographer for Playgirl yeah I feel like men buy more men stuff than women do like I mean what I mean by that is like like if there was a cam guy right right most of his customers are gonna be men not women yes the top cam guys are are gay right content yeah yeah because like females probably can get whatever for free so it's like they don't want to ████ buy and also women women don't want to watch men they want to watch other women mad at other women as stats have shown as stats yeah the

11:02 numbers are there [Music] foreign [Music]

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