I’ve never been a social media fan boy.  Pushing that aside I purchased Musk’s blue check mark in the fall of 2024.  A year long subscription to the Pro tier.  Using no gimmicks and simply posting and quoting my honest thoughts/reactions I watched my followership climb to 1050.  As it neared 1000 the pace of sign ups slowed.  The account peaked at 1050, fell to 950, where it has hovered for nearly a year now.

In the fall of 2025 I tried to change my subscription tier to free, giving up the blue checkmark.  If you check @evanmacian today you’ll see the checkmark.  Failing to change the tier I was forced to delete my credit card over six months ago.

I still have the Pro subscription tier.  And there’s little evidence that any of my 950 followers see any of my posts.

True story.