sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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hey! thank you very much to all my readers for making “it’s time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone” my first post to receive ten thousand likes!
This gives me the heebee jeebees as a 3 year long contributor to this platform, sometimes up to 100,000 words and pictures galore a week. The support and pay out costs have been horrendous and I am not happy with much of the results as I lost over 6,000 paid subscribers from around the world when switching to here from MailChimp after many years to make some money, or the hope of doing so. The lack of support, recognition, and watching Substack spend money for other writers without fully recognizing and helping others who are already supplying the fodder for your cannons. Will this just be like FB and Youtube one day. Sell out to corporate like Rumble? This worries me and I will begin the search for other platforms to grow on in light of this attempt to extract money, more than our time, talent and product given to you to grow this platform with, yet you spend it as if it were your energy and time spent to create the product people come to your platform to see. If wii, the many "I"s that create the foundation and value in your platform are not contributing and getting a return now, how will giving your our money help other than to see you spend it on other writers or foolish salaries for the guys at the top with the big piles of stock? Perhaps wii, the ones who have done the work to support your platform, wii are the suckers you plan to make the millions on and also pay you to make it off us now too. Not the greatest marketing strategy unless you perform in a way then instills our faith in your appreciation for what wii are doing for your company to make it worth investing in to begin with. After three years and no recognition or support, no signs of your helping market my work or get book deals, I think you are missing out on the ways to make this better. What are you doing instead?
