Let's talk about Twitter. There's a lot of news about Twitter. I am so confused.

So I have a blu-t in it is right. And then, I heard it in the week, I think I had a

great hit. Could you explain what's going on with that?

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI. In case you missed it, Slate Podcast

about internet culture. And hello, my lovely listeners. Welcome back to the ICYMI verse.

I've kind of liked the metaverse, except instead of you, you know, buying anything or like

creating an avatar, really doing anything you would do in the metaverse, you just get to

listen and be talk about all the things I'm interested in. So fun. So much like the metaverse.

Speaking of fun, someone has been having a lot of it over on Twitter, and by someone,

I mean Elon Musk, because truly no one else is having a good time. I'm just going to list a few

things that have, you know, really, really been so incredibly fun to watch happen over the past

48 hours. Twitch streamer and left this Himbo Hassan Piker as getting into fights with an 18-year-old.

People are flavoring their water with truly astronomical levels of fake sugars while showing off

what looks like a hoarder's collection of Stanley reusable cups. Technically,

about the TikTok trend, but the discourse about it on Twitter has been interminable. We are

somehow in the year of our Lauren Savier 2023, arguing about the ethics of spoilers on social

media again, because we have forgotten about the concept of live tweeting. At least three days,

three whole calendar days were spent arguing about a single screenshot from the most cursed

app on the internet. Hinge. And that doesn't even touch the verification debacle.

It might be easy in all of that to forget in the months that have passed just how much of a

shit show verification on Twitter has been ever since Elon Musk took over and promised to overthrow

the regime of legacy verified accounts. So let me walk you through it really quick. First,

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