Substack is a platform for creating paid newsletter subscriptions. One of the great benefits of Substack is that you can subscribe to a person. That power is intensified when you can actually hear that person’s voice.

People are finally beginning to notice that the size of a Substack doesn’t necessarily translate to success anywhere else. If only someone could have told Paramount before they installed Bari Weiss and started laying people off. Mike Nellis, a Substack writer with over “a million” “readers” on the platform, was barely able to get 600 people to watch a recent livestream of his concurrently. Though it’s possible it did more views after Nellis emailed it out. But X users are also beginning to wonder how they ended up on his email list to begin with. Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie posted recently that he was upset that @Patreon was poaching writers for their own newsletter product. He blamed writers who wanted to get away from Substack’s social features. It’s almost like all of this is connected! ~ @Ryan Broderick of @Garbage Day

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