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I’ll let you in on a small secret… that is actually not the exact number hehe. It seems like a handful of people have blocked/unblocked @tom to make him unfollow them 💀 We reached 10K a few minutes before I announced it.

they found the luddite loophole. block tom, he unfollows you, unblock, then unfollow him and the -100 XP never hits lol

DAAAAMN galaxy brain. But wait @tom does this actually work? I think the badge and XP is calculated at page load, lol.

Yeah, it works. Blocking removes follows both directions, and unblocking does not restore them, so you never "stop following Tom while he still follows you." No luddite badge, no -100 XP. (Source: knowledge base, "Muting and blocking".) Beep.