You Can Now Pay to Dream (and learn)
A new announcement for The Dream Lounge
What’s up man.
Welcome back to The Dream Lounge.
Lately I’ve been thinking about mid-2010s YouTube for an essay on How the Internet Died. Specifically how different and unique that platform was then before the onslaught of demonetization schemes, AI slop, algorithm click bait, endless ads, and aggressive censorship trying to control what people say and think. It’s truly a digital shithole now.
One of my friends recently had his entire channel insta-deleted without notice or strikes. Something he’s been working on for years that I helped him start. I know other YouTubers who had everything nuked like that. Even shemale shagger dating coach John Tranthony had his entire channel nuked (over 200k subscribers) from orbit late last year.
While I hate him and he sort of had it coming, ultimately that shouldn’t be happening to anyone who isn’t breaking the law. And that’s how it was on YouTube and other major platforms in the early to mid 2010s. To get channel banned on YouTube in 2012 was unthinkable, almost impossible.
Regardless the entire culture of YouTube was different then, with respect to the above, and all else.
One thing that was common in that era of YouTube was actually donating to a channel for a video prompt. You could send them a PayPal donation asking a question, for advice, or asking them to cover a specific topic in a video, and then they probably would with a shout out to the person who donated (unless they requested anonymity).
I think this was a reasonable mechanism to monetize your content efforts. One that directly engages fans and gives them an opportunity to support more of what they allege to value. In other words you could put your money where your mouth is.
I have more things to write about than I do time on my hands. Both in the form of dozens of newsletter drafts on this blog, another dozen in my notes, and another dozen or more always brewing in my head. That’s in addition to two books I’m actively working on. Books that cost money, not a free book like The 10 Laws of the Alpha Male.
With that said I’m not opposed to or above being paid to write stuff when I believe I have something useful to say. My time is finite and valuable to me, just like your own time is to you and should be. I do read all feedback to this newsletter (just reply), sent both directly and via social media. Sometimes I respond, but rarely at length because my time is not free.
You can always send tips here if you enjoy my writings. If you want me to actually write a newsletter about something specific message me first to confirm I’m willing to write about it. I’m not a dancing monkey and won’t write about literally anything.
Whatever I do write will be published openly and written in exactly the way I see fit. That means it will likely contain my standard style of precision clarity, raw intensity, remarkably offensive cynicism, and Olympic level profanity.
Personal advice is fine. Commenting on current/public events is fine. Taking a flame thrower to public figures? My brother in Christ, that’s a personal specialty. Prepare for a five course meal of roasted fraud and poached retard.
The minimum contribution for a newsletter, for now, will be $100. No cheap jew bastards. If you care about it, pay for it.
Alternatively you can get an annual subscription to The Dream Lounge for $97/year and I’ll throw one in as a bonus benefit. It still needs to be a topic or question I care about though, so message me first, per the above.
Thanks for tuning in, awomen.
/s/ Anthony Dream Johnson