Annie finally makes it home before her husband. She wakes up a while later and thinks the trip was only a dream. Annie eventually loses control of her car, she drives into a tree, knocking herself out. During all the excitement, the hitchhiker even shows Annie a message that says, "You killed me!". as he only gets more and more battered and bloody without dying. The frightened Annie speeds off in terror, but everywhere she goes, the hitchhiker always reappears and becomes her pursuer and tormentor throughout the trip, as she repeatedly runs him over, shoots him, hurls him off the top of her car, slams him into trees, etc. Miles away from the scene, the hitchiker Annie killed suddenly appears waving her down, appears outside her window and utters, "Thanks for the ride, lady!" (the hitchhiker's repeated line) But King has taken the stand of: gold checkmark, blue checkmark, who gives a shit? Curiously, some time after King openly declared he, like many other celebrities, wouldn’t be paying to remain verified, Elon Musk personally reinstated his checkmark…which King wants you to know he did not get a say in, lest he be deemed a hypocrite.The HitchHiker is the titular main antagonist in the final segment "The Hitchhiker" of the 1987 Stephen King sequel film Creepshow 2,Īs Annie Lansing drives by in her car, she accidentally kills a hitchhiker and speeds off. Stephen King has notably been critical of Elon Musk’s wishy-washy and elitist checkmark policy, which would push people and businesses to pay for their precious verified status. I don’t tweet as much as I used to, and I don’t look at the site as much as I used to.” No, I can’t see myself leaving Twitter.” He added, “They don’t get to scare me away and to cheer and say, ‘Well, we got rid of Stephen King from Twitter.’ So, yeah, I’m going to stay. “The thing is, if everybody who doesn’t approve of the way things are going, if we all leave, then it’s just like walking off the field.
Speaking with Slate, Stephen King defended his stance against Twitter and Elon Musk.
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