DOGE co-founder Billy Markus and many within the Dogecoin community have stood to defend X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk against criticism aimed at him by the horror writer legend Stephen King.

DOGE 联合创始人比利·马库斯 (Billy Markus) 和狗狗币社区的许多人都站出来为 X（前 Twitter）所有者埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）辩护，反对恐怖作家传奇人物斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）对他的批评。

Stephen King slams Elon Musk again

斯蒂芬·金再次抨击埃隆·马斯克

The world famous horror writer has been opposing Musk since his takeover of Twitter/X in 2022, then when he rebranded it as X last year and introduced multi-colored verification checks for a monthly fee. For individuals it is a blue check worth $8 per month.

自 2022 年收购 Twitter/X 以来，这位世界著名恐怖作家一直反对马斯克，去年他将 Twitter/X 重新命名为 X，并推出了按月收费的多色验证检查。对于个人来说，这是一张每月价值 8 美元的蓝色支票。

King refused to pay for it on principle and so did the legendary actor William Shatner (famous for his role of Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek film series), Musk offered them to keep their checks and pay for them out of his pocket, presumably out of respect and wishing to keep these important celebrities on his platform (King has approximately 7 million followers).

金原则上拒绝支付费用，传奇演员威廉·沙特纳（因在《星际迷航》电影系列中扮演詹姆斯·T·柯克船长而闻名）也拒绝支付费用，马斯克提议他们保留支票并自掏腰包支付费用大概是出于尊重并希望将这些重要名人保留在他的平台上（King 拥有大约 700 万粉丝）。

They both agreed but King still continued to criticize Elon Musk in his tweets from time to time. Musk explained to King that this measure was necessary not only to get rid of bots on Twitter/X but also to keep it financially stable since advertisers were not a reliable and constant source of income.

他们都同意，但金仍然不时在推文中批评埃隆·马斯克。马斯克向金解释说，这项措施不仅是为了消除 Twitter/X 上的机器人，也是为了保持其财务稳定，因为广告商并不是可靠且持续的收入来源。

This time, the writer bashed Musk for his need to put his “personal brand on everything”, including Twitter.

这一次，作者抨击马斯克需要将他的“个人品牌放在一切事物上”，包括推特。

DOGE founder and community respond to King

DOGE创始人和社区回应King

The Dogecoin army along with one of the DOGE founders, Billy Markus, responded to the legendary writer respectfully. Markus’s tweet was in his traditional ironic manner hinting that King is not entitled to give the old name to the platform bought by Musk and titled in the way he sees fit.

狗狗币大军以及 DOGE 创始人之一比利·马库斯 (Billy Markus) 恭敬地回应了这位传奇作家。马库斯的推文以他传统的讽刺方式暗示金无权为马斯克购买的平台赋予旧名称，并以他认为合适的方式命名。

if elon can name your books, you can name elon’s app that he bought

如果埃隆可以为你的书命名，你也可以为埃隆购买的应用程序命名

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) February 15, 2024

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) 2024 年 2 月 15 日

Twitter user DogeDesigner (who claims to be UX/UI and graphic designer at Dogecoin) clarified to King why the title Twitter is no longer relevant (because of the former 140 characters limitation for posts) and advised him to finally start calling the platform by its current name.

Twitter 用户 DogeDesigner（自称是 Dogecoin 的 UX/UI 和图形设计师）向 King 澄清了为什么 Twitter 的标题不再相关（因为之前帖子的 140 个字符限制），并建议他最终开始用其名称来称呼该平台。当前名称。

Twitter user @dogeofficialceo published a tweet in which he suggested his followers to come up with a suitable name for a book which Stephen King could write about Elon Musk if he chose to. Ironic replies to that followed.

Twitter 用户 @dogeofficialceo 发布了一条推文，建议他的追随者为一本书想出一个合适的名称，如果斯蒂芬·金愿意的话，他可以写一本关于埃隆·马斯克的书。接下来是讽刺性的答复。