X is officially changing the block button and no one knows why

If you've been on social media for any period of time, you have likely had to use block functionality at some point. Maybe another user was leaving comments on your posts that were inappropriate, or an unwanted party kept finding its way into your DMs unsolicited. Unfortunately, moving forward, the way the block button works on Twitter will never be the same again.

X (Formerly Twitter) is finally rolling out its plan to change how the block function works on the social media site and app, and users can't figure out why.

Especially since the official "solution" offered for fixing potential resulting issues is to set your account to private. "Protected" tweets can only be seen by a select audience. But that's not the solution most users want.

Theories as to why this is happening span everything from blaming the site's owner to questioning the site's revenue and advertiser relationships. But what many users seem to agree on is that no one actually asked for this -- which seems to be a common thread running through most of the social media app's recent changes.

The official Twitter Engineering account claims that the block button will now allow users to "share and hide harmful or private information about those they’ve blocked" and "see if such behavior occurs with this update, allowing for greater transparency."

Which seems to imply that blocked users now have the privilege of seeing whether or not someone is talking about them, while users who have blocked accounts to protect themselves from harassment have lost that protection unless they set their account to private.

It doesn't seem fair, but that doesn't seem to be the point behind the update. Personally, I don't care if someone I've blocked tweets about me. I care that they can or can't see what I post. But I'm not in charge of Twitter, so I guess there's that.