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DOGE co-founder Billy Markus and many within the Dogecoin community have stood to defend X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk against criticism aimed at him by the horror writer legend Stephen King.
Stephen King slams Elon Musk again
The world famous horror writer has been opposing Musk since his takeover of Twitter/X in 2022, then when he rebranded it as X last year and introduced multi-colored verification checks for a monthly fee. For individuals it is a blue check worth $8 per month.
King refused to pay for it on principle and so did the legendary actor William Shatner (famous for his role of Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek film series), Musk offered them to keep their checks and pay for them out of his pocket, presumably out of respect and wishing to keep these important celebrities on his platform (King has approximately 7 million followers).
They both agreed but King still continued to criticize Elon Musk in his tweets from time to time. Musk explained to King that this measure was necessary not only to get rid of bots on Twitter/X but also to keep it financially stable since advertisers were not a reliable and constant source of income.
This time, the writer bashed Musk for his need to put his “personal brand on everything”, including Twitter.
DOGE founder and community respond to King
The Dogecoin army along with one of the DOGE founders, Billy Markus, responded to the legendary writer respectfully. Markus’s tweet was in his traditional ironic manner hinting that King is not entitled to give the old name to the platform bought by Musk and titled in the way he sees fit.
if elon can name your books, you can name elon’s app that he bought
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) February 15, 2024
Twitter user DogeDesigner (who claims to be UX/UI and graphic designer at Dogecoin) clarified to King why the title Twitter is no longer relevant (because of the former 140 characters limitation for posts) and advised him to finally start calling the platform by its current name.
Twitter user @dogeofficialceo published a tweet in which he suggested his followers to come up with a suitable name for a book which Stephen King could write about Elon Musk if he chose to. Ironic replies to that followed.