Yes, reader. They took away Linda Yaccarino’s blue check! Before she stepped down, Yaccarino had a blue check next to her display name, accompanied by an X logo, signifying that she is affiliated with the company that brought us Mecha Hitler. Now, both badges are gone.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino has become an ex-X CEO. She is stepping down after two years at the helm of Elon Musk's social media site, formerly known as Twitter, which he purchased in October 2022. Musk hired Yaccarino in June 2023 to run Twitter and rebranded it as X the following month.

Yaccarino’s departure caps a tumultuous run atop Elon Musk’s social-media platform and ​comes after the merger of xAI with X.

X's daily user base dropped 10% in the year leading up to Linda Yaccarino exiting as CEO on Wednesday, according to data from Sensor Tower