Good morning/afternoon/evening.
This might get long so I hope you bare with me. Many years ago when GamerGate started, one of the people who supported and still supports the advocacy of the tag is Robin Ek, the owner and EIC of The Gaming Ground, a video game website and that a great alternative to the mainstream media.
Over the years, the clout chasers on Twitter and the subreddit, Kotaku in Action, have been screaming about supporting alternative websites through advertising them for free or even donating to them but turns out it's all boloney and they don't even put their money where their mouths are. Despite that, Robin kept going, operating the website even at huge losses.
We are all aware on what's going on Sweden and turns out, it's worse than the reports done in English-speaking media have splicing for us to consume. Taxes are raised every week to further weaken the resolve of the natives while funding the barbarians that the Marxist government let in, for the sake of "diversity" and "humanitarianism" have made Sweden into the most dangerous country to live in to date. Arson and explosions are happening daily like it's Baghdad or Mogadishu, elderly and young kids are raped, murdered and mugged in broad daylight as the Swedish government imposed laws to prohibit Swedes from crying foul against their hired mercenaries, putting them into jails for wrong think.
I'm making this post right on now on his behalf because the walls are closing in for him and his family. It's coming to the point that he may not afford to pay the basics or even food simple everything is being taxed heavily by the Swedish government and this same government are laughing in glee that native Swedes are being killed or imprisoned to make sure that the non-woke populous will be kept in check through fear. I want to help him so bad, but I can't. I've been finding ways to get him out of there but I don't know where to begin, how to start it or do I even have the means to do it. I'm just a guy from the Philippines who consider Robin as if he's my flesh and blood brother, and if anything happens to him and his family, it'll break my heart. I feel so helpless.
You can laugh now at my expense, just help Robin. It's not going to be about me, it's going to be about him and his family's sake. For me that's what is important right now.
Literally who?
Being alternative doesn't exonerate you from having to do basic entrepreneurship and hustle. Where's his podcast? What events is he doing?
Out of curiosity I went to check out the site in question. A card dealer? A CARD DEALER? Setting up an page to deal in pokemon graded singles?
Sorry mate, that's not enough. Card stores are going belly up left and right, you gotta be bigger than that to survive. TCGPlayer and StarCity are eating the margin out of that market. For a card gaming business to survive today they need to be building community, running lots of events and becoming the focus of their local gaming scene.
Based on OP's description I'm pretty sure it's not that card site but this one: http://thegg.net/aboutus/
Fair 'nuff.
Although that domain (thegg) is even MORE literally who?
I can see how you could make that brand work, if you're busting your ass going to events everywhere and running a daily podcast. It's a punchy, memorable name and the site isn't terrible. But if this is the site in question then I'd think they'd need to be producing content on the level of Yahtzee or Tim Pool to really make a splash.
He's a pretty cool goy, I follow him on twitter.
Guy, honest mispelling.
lol how often do you type that word
Apparently it's this site, not the card dealer.
According to their about page they have a team of 13 people, and according to their Patreon they spend $100/month on web hosting.
Some honest criticism:
The site looks incredibly unappealing to me. It looks like there's something of a focus on lewd games, but that very general niche is already filled by LewdGamer. This severely limits the potential advertising pool, which is fair enough, but if such content isn't the main focus of your site, it could be a big drawback.
There is also plenty of general gaming content, but none of it seems to be approached in a unique angle that really sets it apart.
The site does news articles that are basically the same "here's the press release" you find on Kotaku, Polygon and the like.
It comes across to me as a site that's attempting to be "those big sites, but ethical" without the resources or direction to do so.
This is not a site that should cost $1200 a year just to host unless something is being done just incredibly wrong.
His best content is probably the interviews.
Yeah.
I think, to do what they're wanting to do, they'd REALLY need to be doing a lot of soundcloud or youtube/bitchute content.
Tell him to identify as female. That's how you win in Sweden.
not just any female, a Muslim female
Can you provide a link or something? I find a bunch of different things with that name and it's not a site/source I'm previously familiar with. Some even mention it's someone selling old TCG cards, which would be kinda a rough business.
If there's a site of quality content that I enjoy, I don't mind giving it some traffic or even paying for content at times. The quality content that I enjoy being the key part of that phrase, but it starts with checking it out and giving an opportunity which I'll do given a link.
The about us of this site matches what OP wrote: http://thegg.net/aboutus/
It doesn't help that Google controls about 80% of the ad market share (likely more by now):https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-share-search-ad-market-projected-grow-80-2019/189993/
They have some pretty strict guidelines and almost every ad vendor out there relies on Google's services to distribute ads. So if Google bans your site from their ad network, every third-party vendor who still uses Google's services won't be able to supply ads to your site either at the risk of being blacklisted by Google.
It's a disgusting, monopolistic game that most people don't talk about. I think Zerohedge was in the news briefly about how Google threatened to blacklist them unless they started censoring their comments. The Left pulled the "Google's a private corporation" BS, even though at this point they are literally strong-arming websites into curating content they deem acceptable, or else.
And good luck trying to get funding elsewhere, because PayPal will drop the ban hammer on a dime if you publish content they consider wrongthink, and Patreon will do the same.
Some sites do use Bitcoin donations, but I tend to doubt that TheGG is pulling in enough visitors to sustain themselves via cryptocurrency.
Assuming http://thegg.net/aboutus/ is the correct site, what's the appeal? I'm not running a charity, you want my money I need a product in return.
There's several employees listed there, but I checked the articles section and it's 80% articles about online casinos. So now I'm put off and just asking upfront where I should be finding the appeal.
I shouldn't even be forced to make an assumption about the url. If you seriously wanted to help your friend, you wouldn't force us to research and discover the site on our own - you'd have it in your OP.
Which tax? Seems like quite a tall tale.
Claim same sex couple and get him a green card?
Don't know how it could help his family though.
From the Welcome Ashore! rules post at the top of the site:
NINE: No person shall use communities.win sites (including kotakuinaction2.win) to solicit, facilitate any transaction, or gift...
Plus, it was rather long winded and tedious.