Around 20% of payments are failing ,so basically this Substack is being semi-demonetized by Stripe, as well as throttled for new subscribers/followers.
Here is an email I received this morning:
"I just wanted you to know my friend tried to get a paid subscription to your sub stack and her American Express would not allow it . Thought you should know and she has plenty of money like a ton so lack of funds wasn’t the reason."
If you are considering becoming a paid subscriber do NOT use AMEX, and retry if the payment initially fails.
But please know that this Substack will always remain 100% free, and will never be behind a paywall.
I find your stack to be the most informative and useful and have recommended it to many of my friends and clients. I have noted the throttling and shadow banning that Substack has started imposing these last few months as its popularity has soared. I would bet that RR and MM have a whole lotta bot followers as that is the lunatic left’s demoralization strategy for social media. The leftist sheep don’t read. At all. Ever. Keep up the excellent work. You are valued more than you can possibly know.
excuse me if i missed it but Jeremiah Hosea has a substack and a weekly radio show totally focused on medical freedom! He is HEAVILY shadowbanned....his radio show is called the The Bassline and he has interviewed many of the leading lights of the med freedom movement , like Jessica Rose, Dr Meryl Nass (2 times) , Dr Joseph Sansone, Dr Judy Mikovits (2x), Dr Andrew Zywiec ,Dr Gary Null, Dr Rima Laibow (2x) and so many more! He deserves a mention and a boost!
Fascinating list.. thank you for compiling that.. sorry to learn Robert Reich has so many followers.. there are several new ones you mentioned I am intrigued with.. gonna check them out..
FYI, some Substacks that do not charge have millions of subscribers. Substack throttles the published number of subscribers to 1/10th the real number for unknown reasons. Probably to discourage the “free” model??? The actual number of subscribers is available by download to the publisher.
I do not charge anything, and paid subscriptions are optional.
Substack was throttling me previously, and more than likely continues to do so now. I'm shadow banned by Google and placed on various spam lists such that my articles can't be searched. nor even emailed to gmail accounts.
And used to, like 6 months ago, if I Google searched your substack, it came up as 1st or 2nd result. Now, it's on the 3rd or 4th PAGE. Sad. And just stupid.
Thanks for this list. I know of a majority of these writers whom I have been following since Covid, starting with Coffee and Covid. I am grateful for the others. Thank you!
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I wonder if many of the subscriptions to Robert Reich and similar are possibly individuals or groups who fund/underwrite/impersonate individual subscriptions to liberal themed narrative podcasts to boost subscriber numbers.
FWIW I have also had my credit cards blocked for republican candidate fundraisers but not for apolitical donations using the same cards
However, since we are living in the age of Artificial everything, from local food supplies to the country’s most important voting events, the question is: Are all those thousands real? All these data come from some sort of pre-programmed user interface. Inserting a simple script here and there will make the stats look any way the bosses of the programmers want them to look.
Also, how many of “subscribers” are real humans, or real active humans? How many subscribed and continue there despite their subscription not being up to their expectations... hoping that one brilliant article will change their world?
Are the subscribers counted in total, including those who unsubscribed, or only the current number?
And finally... so what? No offence, but these are only digits, and digits without a true marketing context (which should be provided by the platform - and it is not) and without making the platform self-replicating or self-promoting - like the rest of its older siblings.
PS more failed payments all morning.
Around 20% of payments are failing ,so basically this Substack is being semi-demonetized by Stripe, as well as throttled for new subscribers/followers.
Here is an email I received this morning:
"I just wanted you to know my friend tried to get a paid subscription to your sub stack and her American Express would not allow it . Thought you should know and she has plenty of money like a ton so lack of funds wasn’t the reason."
If you are considering becoming a paid subscriber do NOT use AMEX, and retry if the payment initially fails.
But please know that this Substack will always remain 100% free, and will never be behind a paywall.
I find your stack to be the most informative and useful and have recommended it to many of my friends and clients. I have noted the throttling and shadow banning that Substack has started imposing these last few months as its popularity has soared. I would bet that RR and MM have a whole lotta bot followers as that is the lunatic left’s demoralization strategy for social media. The leftist sheep don’t read. At all. Ever. Keep up the excellent work. You are valued more than you can possibly know.
excuse me if i missed it but Jeremiah Hosea has a substack and a weekly radio show totally focused on medical freedom! He is HEAVILY shadowbanned....his radio show is called the The Bassline and he has interviewed many of the leading lights of the med freedom movement , like Jessica Rose, Dr Meryl Nass (2 times) , Dr Joseph Sansone, Dr Judy Mikovits (2x), Dr Andrew Zywiec ,Dr Gary Null, Dr Rima Laibow (2x) and so many more! He deserves a mention and a boost!
Fascinating list.. thank you for compiling that.. sorry to learn Robert Reich has so many followers.. there are several new ones you mentioned I am intrigued with.. gonna check them out..
FYI, some Substacks that do not charge have millions of subscribers. Substack throttles the published number of subscribers to 1/10th the real number for unknown reasons. Probably to discourage the “free” model??? The actual number of subscribers is available by download to the publisher.
I do not charge anything, and paid subscriptions are optional.
Substack was throttling me previously, and more than likely continues to do so now. I'm shadow banned by Google and placed on various spam lists such that my articles can't be searched. nor even emailed to gmail accounts.
But they are losing...
Congrats 2nd smartest.
And used to, like 6 months ago, if I Google searched your substack, it came up as 1st or 2nd result. Now, it's on the 3rd or 4th PAGE. Sad. And just stupid.
Use Brave browser and their search engine.
I haven't used Google in well over a decade for anything -- there are evil.
Did I miss Naomi Wolf, or is she not on the list?
Oops, coming at #9, is Dr. Naomi, who is among the most courageous of the [medical] freedom warriors.
Thank you for a most interesting (and, sometimes, surprising) statistical breakdown.
Thanks for the sale price! Congrats on your success in the Covid Contrarian group!
Thanks for this list. I know of a majority of these writers whom I have been following since Covid, starting with Coffee and Covid. I am grateful for the others. Thank you!
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I wonder if many of the subscriptions to Robert Reich and similar are possibly individuals or groups who fund/underwrite/impersonate individual subscriptions to liberal themed narrative podcasts to boost subscriber numbers.
FWIW I have also had my credit cards blocked for republican candidate fundraisers but not for apolitical donations using the same cards
Michael Eades (The Arrow) is another one that I follow, but he isn't on substack.
Thanks for the list. I follow several of them and subscribe to a handful of them. A paid subscriber to only one of them.
Mad props 2SG
A very interesting presentation, thank you.
However, since we are living in the age of Artificial everything, from local food supplies to the country’s most important voting events, the question is: Are all those thousands real? All these data come from some sort of pre-programmed user interface. Inserting a simple script here and there will make the stats look any way the bosses of the programmers want them to look.
Also, how many of “subscribers” are real humans, or real active humans? How many subscribed and continue there despite their subscription not being up to their expectations... hoping that one brilliant article will change their world?
Are the subscribers counted in total, including those who unsubscribed, or only the current number?
And finally... so what? No offence, but these are only digits, and digits without a true marketing context (which should be provided by the platform - and it is not) and without making the platform self-replicating or self-promoting - like the rest of its older siblings.
It wouldn’t be surprising if many of those subscribers are not actual individuals.
Don’t forget Matt Goodwin - over 70k