I don’t brag about this enough bc it feels gauche, but whatever—I turned down a six figure deal from Substack because I thought they were slimy - ThreadSky

trungles.com • 108 days ago

I don’t brag about this enough bc it feels gauche, but whatever—I turned down a six figure deal from Substack because I thought they were slimy

Reposted from Alex de Campi

It’s been fash for years

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gzo.bsky.social•108 days ago

What about Medium? I've been using it for a while because I don't like Substack's "newsletter" gimmick.

wollymight.bsky.social•108 days ago

👑

robotjq.bsky.social•108 days ago

Hell yeah

wollymight.bsky.social•108 days ago

riteshwriter.bsky.social•108 days ago

🫡🫡🫡

originalshena2.bsky.social•108 days ago

you should brag about it more. I appreciate that you did it! They are SO SLIMY!

candela.bsky.social•107 days ago

What site does this better? I was thinking of starting something and focusing on more long form writing, which I’ve not done in years, and I didn’t know that about this company. Is Medium more reputable?

sarahmargs.bsky.social•108 days ago

U should def brag about this

sarahmargs.bsky.social•108 days ago

thank u king

trungles.com•108 days ago

💖💖💖

parrykat.bsky.social•108 days ago

ngl I think about this post of yours all the time

alzamon.bsky.social•108 days ago

Talk about bold decisions. Because it's not always easy to say no to money, regardless of strings attached (there always are). Personally I decided on SS (pun intended) for my newsletter because of herd mentality but looking forward to move it to another less morally-challenged service.

meakoopa.bsky.social•108 days ago

turned down a deal with them too, and then had to turn down other work associated with them - truly scummy.

trungles.com•108 days ago

owenblacker.bsky.social•108 days ago

I already thought you were both awesome, but this is really cool to see

trungles.com•108 days ago

Aw 💖

soengery.bsky.social•108 days ago

Man, very glad to hear this. I was very disillusioned when so many pros took that fasch cash. It's nice to know that not everyone did.

rebeckeronie.bsky.social•108 days ago

Thank you for reminding me theyre scum. Ive been needing to pull the lever on switching to buttondown, im gonna do it this week.

taraocomics.bsky.social•108 days ago

I thought I was going insane for how normalised it's become lately, I was like "wasn't there a bunch of backlash when it started up??? Is everyone just ok with that now?" 🫠

alterici.bsky.social•108 days ago

Dang dude!! Principled af.

oldenaturalist.bsky.social•108 days ago

I had no idea!!

angeladunn.com•108 days ago

Even if it is a brag, it's a damn good one in my opinion.

kikidoodle.bsky.social•108 days ago

Naw that deserves a brag. That's hard money to turn down even if you know it's bad.

kodyisover.com•108 days ago

I think about how you did this legendary move every time I see someone starting a Substack

trungles.com•108 days ago

I don’t really begrudge anybody using the platform (lbr we all used Twitter forever) but I just couldn’t be their little like, “Look this queer brown person says we’re okay because they took our money!” you know?

alexdecampi.bsky.social•108 days ago

it’s absolutely what they did with molly o & nd stevenson so… you dodged a bullet

trungles.com•108 days ago

Their contracts have got to be up soon iirc/if their contracts looked anything like the one I saw

dogunderwater.bsky.social•108 days ago

💪💪💪

ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social•108 days ago

Trung!! My admiration increases 👑

mercurialblonde.bsky.social•108 days ago

The thing that got me was when people were acting like we were meant to celebrate lgbtq people who did take the bag to promote it. That and NFT scams exposed a lot of people.

reireh.bsky.social•108 days ago

Big flex

trungles.com•108 days ago

It was more money than I’d ever seen in my life, and my partner had gotten long covid and couldn’t work as steadily (clinical social work in nursing homes). But we were still doing okay, I still ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it! And I’m glad about it to this day!

theoraclej.com•108 days ago

I already knew you were good folk, this just cements it. Thank you for that. You may never know how much it means to me.

sjgochenour.bsky.social•108 days ago

hey, I’m glad to know that. It really felt like when they were “just” promoting transphobic voices no one cared and was delighted to take their money.

balsafinery.bsky.social•108 days ago

given how many comic book folks just took their money & seemingly said nothing when the fashy shit kept on bubbling up, you should shout this from the largest mountaintop

joekalicki.bsky.social•108 days ago

Really makes you side-eye Nick Spencer in particular

trungles.com•108 days ago

He was their liaison to me lmao

ericafails.bsky.social•108 days ago

Looool

trungles.com•108 days ago

I don’t think the Substack people knew his name was not a point in their favor in my case

profkit.bsky.social•107 days ago

But okay tbh that’s totally something you should brag about.

akw.bsky.social•108 days ago

I did the same with Amazon lol

brendanhykes.bsky.social•108 days ago

You're a badass (sincere)

mikeschnier.bsky.social•108 days ago

I decided not to use their newsletter tool for my project because I listened to the Decoder interview where those quotes come from and was not impressed.

mikeschnier.bsky.social•108 days ago

I don't think Best is a Nazi but also feel like he doesn't have real principles and the risk of having my stuff appear near bigoted posts is a brand safety disaster.

trungles.com•108 days ago

I came away from that write-up with this take, too. He seemed to have gotten pretty far being thought of as the softer touch of the platform’s founders.

wishda.bsky.social•108 days ago

It's Hannah Arendt territory - amoral grifters are the backbone of fascism.

mikeschnier.bsky.social•108 days ago

Moderating content sucks because it's expensive and people yell at you. It's so much easier to run a platform if you can convince yourself that you don't have to do content moderation.

aadip.bsky.social•108 days ago

Substack sucks anyway. Now there’s proof.

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