Substack Is Social Media, Not Business: Biting Hands Which Don't Feed Us
Captured social media platforms are anything but "independent" opportunities for "income"
Transparency Now: Who Is Making Money?
Open the books, alleged independent platform operators. All of you. Who's making money providing the content YOU allegedly MONETIZE? How much? When? How? What are the trends and realities of cloned social media business models in late-stage capitalism, under techno-feudalist control, while humanity experiences joblessness, homelessness, rapid inflation, war, and the decay of failing empires?
We can see right through anyone convinced to use “4 viral Notes examples to make your own.” Writers using templates are neither "independent” anything, nor actual “writers.”
I think you’re selling illusions, delusions, and lies to desperate people. In fact, I’m sure of it. https://substack.com/going-paid proves my point with baseless, vapid claims of earning potential. Then, the page references a list of known media professionals using the Substack platform - people with credentials and careers which make the “special.” Influencers get paid to deceive us, just like X/Twitter and YouTube and all other social media platform Ponzi schemes.
Prove me wrong, platform owners and executives. Show us all the ORGANIC success stories for which you get 10% of creator revenues, Substack. It’s just business, correct? Nothing personal, here! Are creators lacking “paid” subscribers just failures or people who haven’t made it YET? Writers and content creators who should, would, or could “work harder” or “work smarter” to do something else to be magically successful via social media? Maybe they need templates! Prove that.
Prove ANYTHING!
Prove anything organic and real happens on this captured cloud capitalist platform, in a failing empire. I’ll keep an open mind to whatever it is, but mathematic realities say you can’t and won’t. Substack is no different than any other social media platform with paid influencers. I can accept that. Just admit it, and stop promoting otherwise.
“Great writing is valuable,” to whom?
See the linked Substack post below, for the claim.
Prove it,
, , and . I don’t believe you. I’m not angry, and I’m not accusing you of anything. You’re catastrophically-late to the rigged social media game, and I’m asking if you have any way to play out the scenario you’re selling. Not for the few, but for the many.We deserve to know, if you're selling us a platform-based future in which there is an opportunity to monetize content. I'm calling you out. Prove it. Prove there are enough human subscribers to make
a worthwhile venture for any given “content creator” doing “work.”EXACTLY HOW MANY Substack writers have “800 subscribers” (or more) paying “$7/Month” (or more), as per your “Great writing is valuable” advertisement?
Platforms are all social media now. Everyone is a creator, but FEW are INFLUENCERS. Awaken to the scheme that’s been run upon us - over and over. It’s all played out. I guarantee it.
NOT ONE PLATFORM provides living-wage income for creative and truly independent humans who don’t serve an algorithmic master. The captured INTERNET offers no free market legitimacy, as it's filtered and controlled by surveillance, biased search engine results, monopolies, and unlimited AI fraud.
“Free Markets” are DEAD on a wholly captured internet.
Enjoy this awful AI image I created, of a cat biting a human hand, from X/Twitter, from 3/23/2023
Subscriptions and Donations
Subscriptions and Donations (embezzled and taxed by unauditable corporate fascist fraud) allegedly produce income. Ponder present moment reality. Then, ask yourself, “Is that plausible, today?” No.
Platforms are simply repeated social media black box AI fraud.
Platform Ponzi schemes algorithmically extort participants, then reward founders and selected winners who conform. Only compliant creators elevated to to the status of influencers, will ever earn. Even then, they’re hostages to all platform revenue streams. Sure, they can “own” their email list. Ask all the people who lost their audiences to captured internet fraud via real world or social media platforms how much money they make from email lists!
Anyone claiming to make a living as independent media on Substack, Rumble, Rockfin, YouTube, or other ancillary social media platforms is:
A platform owner
An already established influencer or journalist monetizing an already large audience
An early adopter of the rigged game, maximizing platform algorithms
Lying - people are representing opportunity to earn income as “independent media,” which doesn’t exist in reality
Anyone who says you can make a living as a non-influencer with ORIGINAL content, prove me wrong.
We are each, “Speaking into the Void,” or “viral Notes” examples wouldn’t exist.
Prove It
Prove it,
, , and . I don’t believe you. I’m not angry, and I’m not accusing you of anything. You’re catastrophically-late to the rigged social media game, and I’m asking if you have any way to play out the scenario you’re selling. Not for the few, but for the many. We can see right through anyone convinced to use “4 viral Notes examples to make your own.” Writers using templates are neither "independent” anything, nor actual “writers.”How many paid subscriptions do your average (mean) and median READERS maintain? How many writers can really get paid from your platform, before the numbers don’t add up?
Is your content just for wealthy people? I write on Substack, but can’t afford to READ the Substacks of MDs and other already highly-compensated professionals. Is that free speech? How? I find much of your content inaccessible to the masses, so worthless. What lasting business model is about news, but through exclusive content? None. Only fraud. Secrets. Tricks. Chosen influencers. Games of algorithms and AI. Only suppression. Only serving the Borg. Only excluding people lacking wealth.
Go ahead and tell me how wrong I am, but PROVE IT. Prove subscriptions to newsletters is a sustainable model for anyone on a captured internet, because I don’t believe you. In fact, like all Ponzi schemes, I doubt enough humans exist to make it work for anyone but the chosen ones, who were already winning.
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I hope Substack makes enough money to pay its bills. So I can keep reading.
Being able to make a living as a writer has always been an occupation for the few.
Good luck.