To be honest, I never really wanted to be Verified.
I didn’t like the checkmark. I didn’t want it.
I just… wanted to prove, at least to myself, that the fairness, the rules that they said applied to everyone, applied to me.
And they just fucking didn’t.
I didn’t even care about the harassment.
I thought it was funny.
At one point I had about 33-34 people stalking me. These people were not subtle about it. They weren’t smart. It was some Internet troll bullshit that made me smile, because, I had people I had said one thing to, and they fucking got so angry that they tracked me and tried to hurt me for a decade.
Yeesh.
But then, they were gone. They were gone, and I had won.
But they’d fucked around for about 11 goddamned years.
And Twitter did nothing.
Unfairness
This is the feeling that I want to get out of my chest.
I was lied to. People told me: if you do the work, and meet the criteria, then you’ll get it.
No you won’t. It’s fucking bullshit. I always knew that it was a carrot on a stick, but, the reality is, there’s no fairness.
The thing that pisses me off is not that they were lying; but that they think that they’re smart enough to lie to me. That I’m dumb enough that they can just tell me fucking anything, and I’ll fall for that bullshit.
That is the reason why I started testing this, all those years ago.
They’re fucking liars.
I feel better.