Spider-Man 4: Tobey Maguire’s Spidey Fake Return Goes Viral In Protest Against Twitter Changes

Since Elon Musk made his Twitter purchase effective, the social network has undergone several changes, being the most controversial one concerning the verification badges, blue check mark that the employer wants to make the payment. He started asking for $ 20 a month and, after widespread user outcry, lowered the rate to $ 8. In other words, Musk interpreted that the tweeters’ anger at monetizing the blue tick came from the amount requested. , not by the decision itself. Now Cade Onder, journalist of the well-known film specialist ComicBook, he wanted to show what the real problem is in the face of this change.

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? Cade Onder (@Cade_Onder) November 4, 2022

Onder, becoming the voice of many colleagues, decided he would ‘explain’ in a tremendously effective way what could happen if the blue tick were sold to someone. Leaving behind the professional ethics that keep most journalists glued to the truth, the aforementioned pen has decided to change its name on Twitter, as well as its photo. and take advantage of your verification to announce the return of Tobey Maguire as Spidey in an alleged “Spider-Man 4”. By pretending to be the actor, Onder managed to make fake news go viral to the point of turning “Tobey” into a trending topic for several hours.

It didn’t take long for Onder to straighten the mess, but it didn’t take long for half of Twitter to jump on the bandwagon, assuming a verified account wouldn’t tell lies. “That’s why allowing someone to be verified without … you know, verifying their identity will become a problem. Many people believed that I was really Tobey Maguire and in one hour I gained over 1000 followers + tens of thousands of likes / RT”. So far the blue check mark has been given to celebrities, personalities, journalists … people who could justify ‘deserving’ the badge for professional reasons of various kinds. Of course, within said Twitter “elite” there is everything, including some accounts that, no matter how verified, post questionable information / statements; but, Twitter has done everything it can to stop the hoaxes from spreading. According to Musk, this will continue to be the company’s goal because “Twitter’s strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged”but the monetary variable associated with identity verification undoubtedly challenges this hypothesis.

The fourth delivery that was not

Onder himself, hours before causing such a sensation, collected on ComicBook the statements of Jeffrey Henderson, an artist who worked on the design of the storyboards of the ‘Spider-Man’ saga at the time of Maguire and Sam Raimi; revealing what we would see in the fourth installment that it wasn’t.

According to Henderson, “Spider-Man 4” had Spidey in mind to face the Vulture played by John Malkovich. “We were about to open the movie with a montage of all the villains we knew Sam could never use in the Spider-Man movies”comments on a project that, despite having Raimi on his side, would be very different from getting the green light today.