Stephen King leaves X, describing atmosphere as ‘too toxic’

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/15/stephen-king-quits-x-atmosphere-too-toxic

47 comments

  1. About to do the same.

    I was fairly new to it and just hasn’t been very enjoyable and especially since Musk was pushing his posts on me when he is no where near my algorithm of things I’m interested in.

  2. I’m happy for him, but does anyone care?

    EDIT: ok, two people downvoted me, so two people care. I accept the correction.

  3. yup that place is a bubbling cauldron of racism and hate

  4. The place was pretty toxic when I left a year ago, probably worse now

  6. I did this two days ago. To be fair, it wasn’t a huge sacrifice. I never really looked at it and knew it was a bigoted mess after Elon took over. Nevertheless, it feels good to lose it now for sure.

  8. Good he’s complained long enough it’s time for him to leave maybe he can convince his buddy mark Hamill to also leave the website.

  9. I deactivated my account the day Musk was announced as the new owner.

    We knew how is was gonna go and nothing about that appealed to me.

  10. Oh …NOW its too toxic…. But for the past two years its been super supportive and empowering sure

  11. This goes to prove, it’s getting better by the day.

  12. Why does everyone feel the need to announce their departure? It’s not an airport. Doing so only proves they just want attention. NO ONE CARES. If you care what celebs are leaving X, you need to re-evaluate your life.

  14. For years his tweets have been vile. But now it’s too toxic, lol.

  17. Jamie Lee Curtis just announced she was leaving too. Must be really toxic over there…

  19. I’m sick of seeing so many posts of people leaving X 1 year and 3 months too late.

  20. lol he’s just NOW realizing this? Where’s he been the last 12 years

  21. Who cares? Hell, he should join Reddit if he wants a quality, calming social interaction with people. This is definitely a judgment free site. 😁

  22. No shit. We know it’s bad but people still hung on because it’s still profitable for them. Fuck all

  24. I hate twitter. But also I hate Stephen King. So… I’m neutral on this?

  25. Unfortunately, not a story from three years ago when I would have respected the decision.

  26. Why are these celebs waiting until NOW to leave? Should’ve left after Elon bought it.

  28. So a novelist quitting a moronic social media platform is now news?

    Who cares.

  29. Now if everyone else who called out trump or musk at one point or another left as well, the world will become a better place.

  33. Well. If Stephen the King of Horror calls something toxic, it’s gotta be bad. 😱

  34. I don’t blame him. I left a while back because the amount of hate and ragebait got too much. It’s like a larger version of the Daily Mail comments section.

  35. I’ve never been on twitter because I always say the worst of society dwells in the depths on there. But must we get an announcement of every celeb who decides to stop using it?

  36. All of yall must be too stupid to figure out the FOLLOWING option. Even my for you is just movies and sports because that is all I engage with.

  37. It warms my heart that he was messing with them so much. Just wish he’d come out with an apocalyptic movie based on them now.

  38. I left it this week too but only had it because i was watching what they were doing to hariss and shit becsuse it was annoying. I’m done with that platform. It is so toxic.

  39. I was on there until the day before the election and the experience was perfectly fine for me. I had a nice circle of people I followed (including Uncle Stevie), I never had any posts by conts show up in my feed and I rarely waded into the comment sections where the conts really go crazy. But I’m not offering the gift of my traffic to that blathering bag of shit owner anymore, so I just stopped going. Probably dozens of pornbots “following” my account in the last week.

  41. What user base of X celebs and how do they become the corner stone of the platform?

  42. Took him a while… I folded and left a week ofter fElon started to call it a “neutral free for all”…

  45. My feed has become overtly racist, right wing and anti semitic

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