Thanks, Captain!
Miller knows deep down that legacy media outlets are petrified of Substack and want to gain control over information again.
As a jobless 21-year old college student, the least I could say is that I don’t have a life. I’m mostly just in the midst of an ideological crisis and scrambling to finish this Spring semester of college. So it’s safe to say I haven’t had much to write on.
However, last night, something awesome happened.
Last night on my usual scrolling through Twitter, I found an interesting article from Politico. The article wrote about the attraction of Substack and why it intrgiues people to go and read independent media. Now the article itself is not bad at all, but somehow, Politico’s Twitter account decided to tweet this out to grab people’s attention.
Now like I said, if you look past the out-of-context passage, it’s not a bad article. It’s the furthest thing from a usual hit piece on Substack. However, this was not a good idea for the account to put that passage there since it only adds fuel to the fire of the panic porn going on with legacy media seeing the rise of independent media. This past week, I’ve seen too many pieces taking a dump on Substack or corporate media outlets losing their minds releasing people rather subscribe to their favorite writer rather than these older outlets.
But something amazing happened last night.
One of my heroes on Twitter, Stephen L. Miller, decided to trash on the tweet from Politico, and highlight the recent panic corporate media is having with Substack.
Now I’m in my cheeky manner, I decided to respond to the last line.
What happened next was something that I did not expect.
I was legitimately shocked he did this for me. I honestly just tweeted it in jest. Though this is my underestimation of Miller’s influence in the Twittersphere. Whenever a Chinese state-media account tweets something egregious, he tells his 265.1K followers to reply with a picture of the Uighur Muslims held captive. Call it good trolling towards a corrupt foreign government that will never be held accountable.
Miller knows deep down that legacy media outlets are petrified of Substack and want to gain control over information again. People are running to different outlets and mediums because they don’t trust the information that is given by these outlets anymore. If it has to be outlets like Substack, then so be it.
If you are one of the eighteen people that came here because of Stephen L. Miller, than I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m here to whatever I want, and at least try to make it interesting. Let’s get ready to have some fun!