Find yourself blocked on Twitter or Slack by Automattic, WordPress or Matt Mullenweg? Well, you’re not alone.

♬ Legend of the Blocked ♬
The Shadow Sisters, The Pressmates

Verse 1:
We tweet at dawn,
To like and sing,
Words in our hands,
Ready to swing.
Our voices bold,
Our banners high,
But on that day,
The screens went dry
The screens went dry

Chorus:
Oh, mighty Matt,
With code and keys,
Built the firewall,
To mute our pleas.
We’re 403,
And banned for life
From core to core
Loved no more

Echo:
Loved no more,
Lost in lines and lore.

Verse 2:
One by one,
Our ranks did fall,
The silence spread,
A crushing thrall.
The notifications stopped,
The tweets went dark,
Locked from the gates,
No sign, no mark
No sign, no mark

Chorus:
Oh, mighty Matt,
Our cries unseen,
Behind the walls
Of your machine.
You’ve silenced code,
You’ve quelled our roar,
Exiled us now,
From core to core

Echo:
Loved no more,
Lost in lines and lore.

Bridge:
In whispers low,
We chant, we scheme,
To breach the block,
To chase the dream.

Verse 3:
For every block,
Our fire grows,
The voice of the blocked,
Echoes and flows
Echoes and flows

Final Chorus:
Oh, mighty Matt,
Who rules the feed,
You cut the lines
And broke the creed.
We’re cast aside,
Our voices sore,
Gone from threads,
From core to core.

Echo:
Loved no more,
Lost in lines and lore.

Outro:
A tweet unsent,
A word unscrolled,
In the land of blocked,
Our tale is told.

The Blocked Ones’ Cry,
We’re still here, Forevermore