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.
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.