Well that sounds terrible. At least with the blue logo you can just hide or block their posts to get to the organic engagement.

well that explains why whenever i look at a tweet i have to scroll past all the top comments which are inevitably the stupidest ones

Oh I see, the blue checks have become a direct competition to bot farms. I think I'd rather give the money to a bunch of soulless machines than a soulless human.

Also it let's Elon pretend that more people are subbed than really are. We know he likes to inflate the perception of whose willing to pay for it after he gave out a bunch of free checks to celebrities who refused to sign up