“I am again from the grave to say… #FreeKathy”
Kathy Griffin is taking her battle with Elon Musk from past her mom’s grave.
The 62-year-old comic logged into her late mom Maggie Griffin’s Twitter account after the corporate suspended her major account for altering her title to Elon Musk on the platform.
The Tesla CEO additionally made an announcement, tweeting: “Going ahead, any Twitter handles partaking in impersonation with out clearly specifying ‘parody’ will probably be completely suspended.”
Kathy seems to be the primary superstar to lose her tweeting privileges amongst quite a lot of different celebrities which have additionally protested Musk’s new Twitter Blue plan. The plan would enable customers to pay for a blue verify mark for a month-to-month price of $8.
I’m again from the grave to say…#FreeKathy #TipIt
— Elon Musk (@TipItMaggieG) November 7, 2022
@TipItMaggieG
The checkmark has traditionally solely been supplied to public figures, celebrities and different influential folks so as to assist the net neighborhood simply determine them. In an effort to level out the flaw within the new Twitter CEO’s plan, many public figures with blue checkmarks have been altering their profile footage and account names to Elon Musk.
Following her elimination from the platform, Kathy responded to Musk’s new announcement from her mom’s former Twitter web page.
“I am again from the grave to say… #FreeKathy #TipIt,” she wrote of her return to the platform.
Griffin later formally addressed her comeback to the social media app, “I am tweeting from my lifeless mom’s account,” the “My Life on the D-Listing” star tweeted. “She wouldn’t thoughts.”
She additionally reassured Twitter customers that her late mom could be sympathetic in direction of her trigger after some started to name her out. “Oh, for gods sake…take a look at the date on the tweet you might be referencing,” she responded to a different consumer. “It’s from 2019. My great mom had an account that I ran for her. She handed away, however I all the time stored the account. Belief me, she could be with me on this. Calm down.”
Truly, she was suspended for impersonating a comic
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 7, 2022
@elonmusk
The 51-year-old Area X founder additional dug into Kathy by responding to a breaking information replace on Twitter by jokingly claiming Griffin was suspended for “impersonating a comic.”
“I imply…you stole that joke, you a–hole,” Griffin fired again. “Individuals have been posting that joke for hours, you hack. Look, please do a greater job operating this firm. It used to imply one thing.”
Concerning her ban, Musk finally wrote that “if she actually needs her account again, she will have it” by paying a recurring $8 cost month-to-month below his new subscription plan Twitter Blue. After a hasty rollout final weekend, the corporate determined to droop the brand new change till the Midterm elections.
