The poor guy has stockholm syndrome for Twitter and Musk

he's pissed that Elon took his handle but not that pissed because he's still on the platform (cancelled his twitter blue, wowwww great protest), he still loves Elon, and calls X "Twitter" 😭 this is wild

It's like the CEO of Reddit editing users' comments. Once you've opened this can of worms, you can't exactly close it again.

Outside of expected circumstances like long-term inactivity or having snuck an inappropriate username past automatic censors, being forced to forfeit your handle is simply unspeakable on social media platforms. Your identity can be straight-up stolen, or altered, without forewarning, for any reason, and you have no recourse at all. And the guy deciding who gets screwed over like this is a rich, entitled right-wing monster who blatantly hurts others if he~~ thinks it might align with his politics somehow~~ wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and you're today's punching bag, frankly.

what a dumb person. he deserves to lick boot.

"This company did a bad unethical thing to me but by golly, I think I'll stay"

If people actually follow Musk when he gets to Mars, that's going to be their planetary overlord. He'll just take their oxygen and they'll thank him.

Beatings will continue until morale improves

This is the best summary I could come up with:

"16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since," Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering at the nonprofit Life Happens, posted on X.

But Vaught never had the time to focus on leveraging the @music audience, only ever benefiting from the account when companies occasionally sent him free perks like headphones in trade for promotions.

Vaught said he was never interested because he knew that selling his handle violated Twitter's terms of service, and he figured there was more value in keeping the account.

To "minimize any inconvenience" from having his account handle taken away, X defaulted to changing Vaught's username to @musicfan, which he described as "probably the least worst" alternative the platform suggested.

But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.

"Twitter's not dead to me at this point," Vaught told Ars, even if "it's a super huge bummer" to lose the @music account.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Meh. Super pissed but doing nothing about it and staying on the platform anyway == I guess they really weren't that pissed. Not even at least leaving just sounds like absolute compliance here.

"...Nothing else compares."

My dude never seen a forum in his life

That is some integrity right there. Wow. /s

LOL just like a redditor.

Lmao so pissed that he cancelled his subscription wowwww

Long-term plan? I'm more than convinced that most of Musky's decisions are made on the spot, during bathroom brakes presumably

Where's that gif of Oprah shrugging like she knew this was expected

Sucks to be him I guess. Stop using "X"

oh no!

anyway...