Letter to the Subscribers - Part 1

Podcast, Gateway Pundit, verious platforms... what's the role of the War Blog in all that? And Why should you even care?

This post is meant primarily to the people who subscribe the War Blog. I won't be sharing it on my other platforms - but, of course, the friends can feel free to share this with whomever they feel like.

I promised to kick things up a notch in '23, and I believe I gave kept my word beautifully - but also, in the process, I got overextended to a point, and have maybe been communicating in a confused way. So, for the sake of people who like and read my work, I felt I could give a 'status report' of sorts, to try to make the strategy clearer.

By now I have well surpassed 'the good old days' of Twitter I  terms of my audience: if you add all my platforms, I am now over 72k followers. It is far from massive, but it's my personal best, and it's comprised of awake people who are in it for the content, and are quite engaged.

My smallest but still trusted platform is Gab. Nowadays is use it primarily to publicize my articles and my videos and special announcements. I don't get much engagement there - but I guess every little bit helps.

Everything that is happening now for me began at Telegram, where my friend Awakened Outlaw found me a bit lost after a spell writing for Frank Parlato's 'Frank Report'.

But as of late I was - like many people - losing followers there and the option of just scraping the platform at once - maybe even Telegram AND Gab - was put to the exam in a very serious way.

I don't know about you guys, but I found it difficult to give away 25k+ followers in these platforms. And furthermore, Telegram still yields solid engagement and reading stats.

So, since I knew that I have too much on my plate right now, with podcast, videos, articles, blog, platforms, I decided to call other people to write in the Telegram channel with me. To my grateful surprise, the first nine people that I called agreed to do so - and NOT ONE of them inquired as to 'who else' was going to be there. The measure of confidence and respect involved still has got me in complete awe. They are all my heroes.

Right now, probably my most important social media platform is Truth Social. I got there later than most other patriots, but Nunes did put Brazil in a fast track of acceptance for which I'm thankful.

In Truth Social I was accepted like nowhere else, and even got verified, one of the very first Brazilians to be so. There, I usually get the best engagements and the most 'love'. Some people criticize it for being a 'echo chamber', but since we are hated in most places, to have ONE where we rule and play without care is a very fine thing.

My oldest (and newest) social media platform is Twitter. I got banned in January 2020, well ahead of the 'great purge', and got reaccepted on February 2nd.

It's my biggest platform, nearly double my TS numbers - but I'm a long way from engaging the people there in any meaningful way, and certainly not in the level that I used to, when in some days I could drive millions of views with my threads.

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So, in these four social media accounts we are machine gunning the news cycle - in and out fast from the stories, trying to figure out the patterns, and so forth.

But that is not the complete focus of my work. Whatever I do, in whatever medium, I always think my first and foremost focus is to be a storyteller. And the long format is where I think my style can shine better.

So that's when this blog here comes in: I started after having written for the Frank Report for quite a while, having authored dozens of articles on the blog belonging to the investigative journalist who dismantled the sex-trafficking, women branding cult-scam of NXIVM.

From the get-go I was well impressed by the blog/newsletter capabilities of Substack, and also the fact that important people were also writing in the platform, which made people more prone to read content from here.

In the second year, the War Blog is bigger, meaner and better. But he is suffering from my multitasking, as I will explain later.

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Video content was an idea that I struggled with for a long time. I'm not 'young and attractive', I have thick accent and poor enunciation skills, and stage fright with zoom calls to top it off.

On the other hand, I knew that to commit fully to this I could not by pass this medium - and furthermore it'd be stupid not to do something that I know how to, and have extensive professional training into.

But I really had to bribe myself into doing it: 'OK, you can play a little every episode.' That's a great idea, but it also puts an added pressure on this producing team of one.

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With the mileage I got from both the War Blog and the Fran Report pieces, and frankly with the good feedback I consistently have been receiving from people I like and whose opinions I trust, I knew that I had to move a step ahead and take my work to larger audiences.

It took a while to implement, but it was easier than I thought: now I am writing in one of the 50 largest news sites in America. In mafia-movie terms, I do feel like a made-guy, now.

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Very well. But all this come to a certain extent to the detriment of the War Blog. Now, not all my articles will be posted here. And the blog has started to carry posts that are pointing to either the Gateway Pundit articles, or the Rumble videos.

I am a stat freak, and I do inquire all the stats of all my platforms all the time - and they tell me things. In this case, they tell me that only around 2%-5% of the people who open the newsletter messages from this blog do indeed click on the links to the articles or videos.

I imagine a hypothetical subscriber going: 'Come on, man - I subscribed to this joint here and now you keep trying to send me links elsewhere? No way - take a hike!'

And that's a concern to me, because I see the people here as the ultimate primary consumers of my content. So HOW do I change and remedy that?

STAY TUNED FOR PART 2.