{"id":2405388,"date":"2025-02-21T20:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-king-scurries-back-to-x-after-fleeing-toxic-app-months-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:20:53","slug":"stephen-king-scurries-back-to-x-after-fleeing-toxic-app-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-king-scurries-back-to-x-after-fleeing-toxic-app-months-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King Scurries Back to X After Fleeing \u2018Toxic\u2019 App Months Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstephen-king-scurries-back-to-x-after-fleeing-toxic-app-months-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">article discusses stephen\u200b king&#8217;<\/a>s return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US ...s \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X (formerly\u200b Twitter) after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-dismissed-october-proposal-to-provide-free-at-home-tests-to-americans-for-the-holidays\/\" title=\"White House Dismissed October Proposal To Provide Free At...Home Tests To Americans For The Holidays\">previously announcing<\/a> his departure due to the platform&#8217;s &#8220;toxic&#8221; atmosphere following Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/firm-linked-to-joe-biden-scrubs-website-of-all-china-related-business\/\" title=\"Firm Linked To Joe Biden Scrubs Website Of All China Related Business\">election victory<\/a>.King, known for his horror novels and leftist views, \u2062had expressed frustration wiht the \u2062political discourse on X and transitioned to Threads as a preferred platform. His return on February 20, 2025, surprised many,\u200c as he resumed criticizing Trump and elon Musk. The article highlights King&#8217;s polarizing behavior, suggesting that despite his wealth and literary success, he \u2063continues to seek \u2063attention on social media, reminiscent of juvenile antics. \u200ccritics argue that his absence was quickly \u2063filled by others sharing similar leftist viewpoints, implying his influence\u2063 might not be as significant as he believes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, that didn&rsquo;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>Fiction author and outspoken leftist Stephen King has made his return to social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>King was once best-known for his works of horror fiction, like &ldquo;It&rdquo; and &ldquo;Pet Semetary,&rdquo; but in recent years his reputation has hinged on his hatred of conservatives, especially President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-puts-dem-gov-place-trans-issue-not-getting-federal-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 14 &mdash; just over a week after Trump&rsquo;s Election Day victory &mdash; King announced his departure from X, citing the platform&rsquo;s &ldquo;toxic&rdquo; atmosphere.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic. Follow me on Threads, if you like.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1857165864346267891?\">November 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He told his followers Threads was now the platform on which to find him.<\/p>\n<p>As for X, King just couldn&rsquo;t stand reading the opinions of people he disagreed with, propped up by one of Trump&rsquo;s allies, owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/elon-musk-calls-end-space-station-time-begin-preparations-deorbiting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, all that seemed to be a distant memory as King posted for the first time in over three months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&rsquo;m baaaack! Did you miss me?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1892688929448485297?\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m baaack! Did you miss me?&rdquo; he asked his nearly seven million followers.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&rsquo;t take long for King to resume his old schtick of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1892689291039437298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whining about Trump<\/a>, calling him a &ldquo;Putin-loving dips***,&rdquo; and telling his followers the insult applied to Musk as well.<\/p>\n<p>Were King&rsquo;s name omitted from these posts, the reader would assume they were the work of a 16-year-old-girl.<\/p>\n<p>At 77, King is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-trans-nightmare-elderly-woman-found-stuffed-freezer-trying-asking-trans-person-leave-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elderly<\/a> man who desperately wanted everyone to care when he pretended to run away from home. Calling him a teenage girl is perhaps too generous, as this is the behavior of a 5-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>This is the digital equivalent of leftists saying they&rsquo;re going to move out of the country if Trump won the election, then unsurprisingly never getting around to it.<\/p>\n<p>No, King, you were not missed.<\/p>\n<p>There are droves of leftists on X who also suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The void you left was filled almost instantaneously with one of your comrades spewing the same nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>There is no apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ny-hotels-using-illegals-bilk-taxpayers-hit-whopping-monetary-judgment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monetary<\/a> incentive for his return.<\/p>\n<p>King is worth hundreds of millions of dollars from his novels. He is just here to be annoying and prove he cannot follow through with his earlier decision after coming to the grim reality that X is still the central hub of everything news, politics, and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The best-selling author could not just sit on that accomplishment alone.<\/p>\n<p>He needs everyone to hear from him constantly, even when we&rsquo;re choosing to not pick up one of his books.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Previously renowned for his horror novels like &#8220;It&#8221; and &#8220;Pet Sematary,&#8221; King&#8217;s recent notoriety has stemmed from his disdain for conservatives, particularly former President Donald Trump. On November 14, shortly after Trump&#8217;s Election Day win, King announced he was leaving X due to its &#8220;toxic&#8221; environment. He encouraged followers to connect with him on Threads instead. However, by Thursday, all that seemed forgotten as he posted again after a three-month hiatus, asking his nearly seven million followers if they missed him. He quickly resumed criticizing Trump and even included insults aimed at Elon Musk. If one were unaware of the author\u2019s identity, they might mistake these comments for those of a teenager rather than a 77-year-old man seeking attention after claiming he would leave the platform. His return appears devoid of financial motivation; King is already worth hundreds of millions from his books but seems unable to resist sharing his opinions on current events through X despite previously stating he would depart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2405389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Stephen-King.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4133,50852,50853],"class_list":["post-2405388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-news","tag-stephen-king","tag-toxic-app"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Stephen-King.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405392,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405388\/revisions\/2405392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}