Not a day goes by with out Twitter proprietor Elon Musk stirring up a shitshow on his new platform. Over the weekend, it seems the billionaire was not amused when comic Kathy Griffin modified her identify to “Elon Musk” and swapped her profile image to certainly one of his. Griffin mocked him and commenced encouraging individuals to vote for democrats, which got her banned by Twitter’s overlord for, it appears, impersonating him.

“After much spirited discussion with the females in my life, I’ve decided that voting blue for their choice is only right. (They’re also sexy females, btw.) #VoteBlueToProtectWomen!” Griffin as Musk. Although the identify and profile image gave the impression to be Musk, Griffin’s deal with was nonetheless @kathygriffin.”

That was not Griffin’s final stand, although. In an surprising transfer, the comic skirted her ban by utilizing the Twitter account of her late mom, Maggie Griffin, who died in 2020. Under the @TipItMaggieG banner, Griffin began trolling Musk by tweeting that she had come again from the grave to inform him to #FreeKathy. The comic tweeted #FreeKathy to Musk quite a few instances and in addition dunked on the Twitter proprietor for “stealing jokes.” In 2017, Griffin tweeted a bloody, severed duplicate of Donald Trump’s head, which bought her fired from CNN however didn’t get her banned from Twitter.

The burn got here after Musk joked that Griffin had not been banned for impersonating him, however as a result of she wasn’t humorous. “Actually, she was suspended for impersonating a comedian,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.

Griffin, through @TipItMaggieG, responded that he had stolen that joke from different Twitter customers and requested him to do a greater job operating Twitter, a platform that “used to mean something.” She later embodied her mom from the grave.

“Elon, this is Maggie contacting you from the spirit world tell u…you’re a douchebag. This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin’s boxed wine loving mother saying I’m gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY. To the moon, a**hole. #FreeKathy,” Griffin tweeted.

On Monday morning, “Kathy Griffin” was trending on Twitter, which might be not the response the cranky billionaire wished. The “My Life on the D-List” star was not the one one kicked off Twitter for participating in a parody of Musk. Ethan Klein, a preferred comedic creator often known as @h3h3productions,” was additionally suspended. Klein had modified his profile image to a sunglass-wearing Musk and made his show identify “Elon Musk.” He tweeted the next:

“Ghislaine Maxwell is an extremely decent woman who I had the pleasure of meeting several years ago. It’s a shame how she’s been demonized and ran over by the press,” Klein tweeted. He shortly added, “Parody account. It’s in my info and header.”

Although Griffin and Musk’s public battle would possibly appear to be a innocent, if considerably ridiculous, spat, it underscores concerns raised by the platform’s customers over Musk’s new plan to bestow the verify marks of verification to anyone who pays the corporate $8 for a Twitter Blue subscription. Before Musk purchased Twitter, individuals with blue checkmarks have been required to endure a verification process to make sure they have been who they stated they have been.

It’s unclear whether or not Musk’s Twitter would require paying customers current any technique of verification to show their id, which may result in individuals impersonating others on the platform and spreading disinformation. Over the weekend, various verified customers had the identical concept as Griffin and altered their names and pictures to repeat Musk, TechCrunch reported. Twitter is reportedly delaying the launch of Twitter Blue till after the U.S. midterms to forestall any potential impression to the elections, the outlet acknowledged.

In response, on Sunday, the identical day Griffin and others determined to alter their identify and profile footage to imitate him, Musk stated that to any extent further, any Twitter handles caught impersonating others with out particularly mentioning they have been parodying one other individual could be banned eternally.

“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” he tweeted. “Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue. Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.”

Gizmodo reached out to Twitter for touch upon why Griffin’s account had been suspended and whether or not the ban was everlasting on Monday morning however didn’t obtain a response. It’s not sure whether or not we are going to ever obtain a response from Twitter once more, provided that Musk laid off nearly the entire communications team on the firm.

Griffin, in the meantime, continued to troll Musk from her lifeless mom’s Twitter account. It’s unsure how lengthy she’ll be capable of try this. Yet, even when Musk bans @TipItMaggieG, Griffin remains to be making enjoyable of him over on Mastodon.

“The bros are coming for me! 😆She’s irrelevant! I thought carrot top was dead! You know, the usual,” Griffin wrote on her Mastodon account on Monday. “HE’S SUCH A DRAMA QUEEN 😂”