Last week, Twitter — helmed by rich idiot Elon Musk — introduced view counts, allowing people to see how many times a tweet has, you guessed it, been viewed. People were unhappy for a couple of good reasons.

Firstly, it looks terrible. See below for examples:

this is some truly hideous UI, well done guys pic.twitter.com/8dw4QUvPoJ

— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) December 22, 2022

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just goes right off the screen. elon you are very smart and good at your job and handsome pic.twitter.com/VrUvq5J8fI

— matt (@mattxiv) December 23, 2022

Secondly, no one who doesn’t have a million followers wants to see how many views their tweet got before receiving zero interactions. Seriously, what purpose does this serve beyond making people feel bad and/or reluctant to tweet?

Twitter users communicated their displeasure at Elon Musk’s latest bad decision in the way they know best: memes. And it appears the complaints worked; view counts will be optional soon. Good work, guys.

When I go to RT and end up in replies pic.twitter.com/fCOAXPBPrn

— 𝗮𝗿𝗶 (@shanae_ari) December 23, 2022

UI design is my passion pic.twitter.com/2pXSqilIZA

— kenny gesserit 🦝 ⛄️ (@KennyGesserit) December 22, 2022

this is how having twitter view count feels like pic.twitter.com/iKNIwxMhav

— Current Gilmore Girls (@CurrentGilmore) December 23, 2022

who’s making these twitter updates ? pic.twitter.com/vUU6Mh2yfI

— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) December 23, 2022

this is how the views feature makes me feel pic.twitter.com/7aDMhesCPL

— Punished “Venom” Pissvortex (@pissvortex) December 23, 2022

artist pouring their hearts out into painting, drawing, writing, etc:
new twitter views: pic.twitter.com/XrUFtJHTmd

— gale 🌿 (@nightgalen) December 22, 2022

What the new twitter views feature feels like pic.twitter.com/3KBVv1jeR2

— kitter (@cIeancores) December 24, 2022

14 years of muscle memory down the drain https://t.co/zI6T0slLBh

— Tori Nicks 2.0 🛰 (@MajestyRia) December 23, 2022

twitter views making me too shy to tweet pic.twitter.com/LaD2cJzGTi

— •ᴗ- (@evadentz) December 23, 2022

this is how having twitter view count feels like pic.twitter.com/QeyUdAccgq

— NOSTALGIA (@notgwendalupe) December 23, 2022

Small twitter artists watching their post they spent the entire day on get 530 views and 6 likes pic.twitter.com/7I5hzFqGLF

— UC | Aerosoul 🚩 (@AerosoulGFX) December 22, 2022

elon musk adding the view count feature before leaving twitter as ceo pic.twitter.com/atRsWDBiWv

— sita ⚡️ (@twilisita) December 23, 2022

This is what seeing Twitter views feels like pic.twitter.com/7v2ihPdvNh

— Annabel Meschke (@annabel_meschke) December 27, 2022

piss color checkmark, reversed positions for likes/retweets/quote tweets, 3 different profile picture shapes, view count under posts that is entirely useless. not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the worst twitter has ever looked

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) December 22, 2022