Elon Musk: Please buy my blue check marks/API/other service that used to be free. I promise that I’m a good man and not a big baby who destroys towns with rocket debris and kills people with self-driving cars.
Also Elon Musk: *proceeds to get no money and is mocked by everyone with sense*
AO3, an actually respectable service: Hey guys, we need $50,000 for maintenance costs.