Elon just went through several bad ideas to come back to the original checkmark system from 2015. The left think they just played him.

A radio station was replacing their popular DJs but knew there would be backlash. So, the new DJs pretended to be hosts for new trial DJs that were awful. Soon people were demanding the new DJs stay in charge.

I get the feeling that just happened. Did Elon do that, or was it happenstance?