Bad news for those who love encountering cute foxes or Vengaboys lyrics between the porn and Ben Shapiro-filled hellscape that is Twitter’s algorithm. Amid the litany of poor decisions Space Karen has unleashed on us after carrying Pandora’s Sink through the threshold of Twitter HQ, it seems automated accounts have become the latest mass casualty of his questionable reign.


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Earlier this week, Twitter’s Dev team announced that the days of free Twitter API were numbered and that a paid option would be taking its place later this month.


“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1,” Twitter’s Dev team announced in a message posted to the social platform, noting that “a paid basic tier will be available instead.”



Wow. Who could have possibly seen this coming?


From bots that dunk on the New York Times —because let’s face it, Tucker Carlson’s takes absolutely suck  — to bunnies and foxes being adorable (not together, but like, you get the point), here are some of the automated Twitter pages we’ll miss most after the purge.


1 .@whatsylviaate

Sylvia Plath’s food diary  — because even Femcels have to eat.




2. @Colorize_bot

Like the tornado in the Wizard of Oz, but less destructive.



3. @RabbitEveryHour

The only thing better than spying a cute rabbit? Seeing one every hour.



4. @HourlyFox

A similar concept to @RabbitEveryHour, the hourly fox is the same, just like, with foxes instead of bunnies.



5. @VengaBoom

It’s “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!” by the Vengaboys. Even with its one incorrect lyric —  despite the pages’ apparent insistence, it’s “I wanna go boom boom,” not “I wanna double boom” — it’s still an absolute banger, even in tweet form.




6. @FrogandToadBot

Honoring the *original* queer icons, one tweed-clad tweet at a time. Rest easy, kings — after all, your bed looks *super* cozy.



7. @ThinkPieceBot


Complete with the iconic “Old Man Yells At Cloud” image of Abe Simpson, @ThinkPieceBot is the spiritual successor to The Simpson's famed clip — after all, where else would we find headlines like “America's Common Sense Crisis” and “The Case Against Vaporware”?



Goodnight, sweet princes. At least we’ll still have the New York Times Pitchbot (which contrary to its name, is not actually a bot).