Rumors swirled throughout blue checkmark Twitter that Elon Musk was going to charge them up to $20 a month for their bluecheckmark. As you can imagine, many a bluecheckmark had a hot take about it. Leave it to former child star and failed pillow salesman David Hogg to have the worst one.

Instead of bluecheckmarks paying Elon Musk, Hogg thinks Elon Musk should pay the bluecheckmarks!

Verified accounts don't bring people to Twitter, since Twitter is the least used and least popular social media app. It's something like 90% of tweets are created by 10% of users. In many cases, people sign up for an account and forget about it. If the inane thoughts of bluecheckmarks were driving traffic, that wouldn't be the case.

Hogg is right about one thing. Twitter is most popular among the three most vapid groups of people known to mankind: journalists, political people and celebrities. "Vapid" is my word. David identified the groups. But then there was this.

People don't make content on Twitter. People complain about content on Twitter that was made on other apps. Or, old-timey platforms like Hollywood. Your dumb political takes are not content. Unless they are written in blog form and longer than 280 characters, obvi.

Don't get me wrong. Charging bluecheckmarks for the glory of having a bluecheckmark sounds like a dumb idea. I wouldn't pay $20 a month to use Twitter, let alone just to have an emoji next to my name. But most bluecheckmarks need to get over themselves. David Hogg is their jester.

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