AND HERE IT COMES -- the cisgender piece of shit is going to do it:

Basically soft-confirmed by a French media outlet Mediavenir about 2-3 hours ago.

X is going pay-to-play:

Translated:

"Elon Musk claims that Twitter will become paid: "We will move to an economic model of a small monthly payment to use X". The billionaire claims that this is the only way to overcome bots on the platform."   

EDIT TO ADD 4:15ish PM PDT 9/18/23:  My anonymous friend has a great idea on the news: