This is how badly X wants you to pay to promote your posts

Many X users have seen and shared images of the unsettling promotional tool, including The Verge’s Tom Warren, but it doesn’t appear for everyone on the platform. The arm seems limited to verified users, or those with a paid subscription to X Premium. Reactions, unsurprisingly, have been less than positive. “I’ve never promoted a post and HATE this screen takeover,” said Sheel Mohnot, while Jesse Middleton likened it to a Halloween prank. “I wish I could explain how jarring this hand and animation was in the @X app. It was truly shocking, almost like a Halloween gag, but I’m pretty sure it was real.”