From Anne Laurie:

If I ran twitter, I would introduce the concept of premium words. You have to pay money to use the premium words. This would not make the website profitable, it would simply be used as a social engineering tool to reduce words that are used too often.

eg: $20 to use gaslighting

— Starfish Who Should Be Told To Get Back To Work (@IRHotTakes) January 23, 2020

You can use “lying,” “deception,” or “misdirection” for free, but twenty bucks for “gaslighting.”

— Starfish Who Should Be Told To Get Back To Work (@IRHotTakes) January 23, 2020

strong choice of dollar amount

— counterfactual (@counterfax) January 23, 2020

Optics, $500

— Peter Harris (@ipeterharris) January 23, 2020

Commodifying is a premium word too

— Owain James (@aprinceofwhales) January 23, 2020

$50 bucks for feckless

— anti-malarkey aktion (@stanGorbachev) January 23, 2020

“why is no one talking about this” will cost a literal arm and a leg. https://t.co/H2SP7URD4R

— all the work while crying (@Pasha_Spider) January 23, 2020