While there’s nothing inherently wrong with this, the current state of the social media meta is to purposefully stir up drama and ragebait for clicks. Now aside from just impressions and clout, people will have an actual monetary incentive to do so.
It kinda makes the idiom “any publicity is good publicity” true in a sense.
https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/110708775736595511
Holy shit that’s a lot of money* for spreading hate.
*The tweet doesn’t specify what time frame/window this amount was generated within. Could be the users entire time on the bird site, or for just last week…
Seems like it’s monthly? Or that’s what some of the people in that thread are saying.
That’s still a Holy Shit then.
I try to keep an open mind, especially because I’m immigrant who has other concerns outside the US sociopolitical sphere, but this is exactly one of the things I immediately saw happening given the demographic of people paying for Twitter Blue.