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I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

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Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#11

Adult humor at one’s own expense or the expense of “public figures” was celebrated, not cancelled, in the halcyon days of yore like 5 years ago. This used to fly: https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/ and the world was better for it. Bravo, Swiftian sarcastic satirical Sir or Madame.

Taylor Swift writes satire? (Ducks object thrown at my head)

Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#13

Adult humor at one’s own expense or the expense of “public figures” was celebrated, not cancelled, in the halcyon days of yore like 5 years ago. This used to fly: https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/ and the world was better for it. Bravo, Swiftian sarcastic satirical Sir or Madame.

God, I love that site.

Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#14

Adult humor at one’s own expense or the expense of “public figures” was celebrated, not cancelled, in the halcyon days of yore like 5 years ago. This used to fly: https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/ and the world was better for it. Bravo, Swiftian sarcastic satirical Sir or Madame.

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Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#16
Haaa! Nice.

So, I have a Medium Account since its early beta when your Twitter account was used as your Medium ID. Somewhere down the line, I wrote/sync my articles and a few articles got picked up. It then began to grow and has about 4,500 Followers by the time I abandoned my account.

A few people have advised me on how to “spam” and “SEO” and “Affiliate” and others. I'm not keen on it. And no, I have absolutely no idea how it grew.

Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#17
There’s a bit of sour truth in this. I don’t think it’s Substack’s fault, but the era in which quality content could grow an audience through organic means is over. TikTok is more of a symptom than a driver, but the Internet in this Big Platform, enshittifed era is just as much a wasteland as TV was in the “idiot box” age.

Ten years ago, if the powers that be wanted to put you to the big sleep, they had to MOC you. Now, they don’t have to do anything because unless you have the funds and time to build a platform in today’s low-effort, low-attention world, they know you will be ignored.

Re: I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months

#19

haha. nice. man i can't grow shit online like the old days.

It was always hard, but it used to be possible. These days, though, you have to compete for visibility against people who are as good at manipulation as you are at actually doing stuff.

Platform capitalism has made the “idiot box” age of TV downright civilized in comparison—at least they didn’t eat Tide pods in the trash cable era.

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