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@Jens_Rasmussen @teto so a few things here.
all you need to get a checkmark, and x premium, is to just pay for it. you could feasibly do this with a prepaid visa if you really wanted to.
the payments go through stripe, which is irish-american, not israeli.
now, if you want to have the special little thing that says your account is ID verified, that's when you have to go through au10tix and do all these extra steps. that just basically makes it so that people can't impersonate you.
however, it would seem that this account (isfjmocha) doesn't have that notice on their checkmark, meaning they never did the ID verification.
i think this might be a bug with google trends, because i just looked for my name and the same thing popped up, a random spike at 100 yesterday and then literally nothing else when changing the scope, not even on this day.
@Jens_Rasmussen @teto the OP has 30,000 likes. that scares me.
@Jens_Rasmussen @teto looking at the replies to OP it seems a lot of other people are getting this bug too, even people who have no checkmark, even people who are looking up random small towns.