Another issue is that there's no way for Alex to offer monetization for any of these video creators. He has literally no appeal to most advertisers, and there's no way that the soap limerick guy can subsidize ads on all the crypto-fascist videos that site has the potential to host. That's really a serious problem. It's like... What he's doing is solving all the wrong problems. Like, the right-wing scammers on YouTube are mostly mad because their scam got disrupted. They figured out how to game the suggestion algorithms to inflate their channels to the point where they're making massive amounts on Google ad revenue. Demonetization is just as bad as being kicked off for them, and Alex really has no answer for that. Let's say one of these non-InfoWarriors employee MAGA assholes comes over and wants to start posting videos here. There's no reason to expect there's ever going to be a way to replicate what they had with YouTube, and no reason to expect that there's ever going to be money in it. As a place where Alex can just post his videos, it serves that function, I guess. But it's going to be deeply expensive over time. The amount of content he wants to push out to keep people's attention won't be cheap. Like, for hosting and the space he needs. I could see this as a good decision to make in better times when you could afford to take a hit as an investment in something that you could build into something bigger. Like, you lose a million this year to make 10 million in five years. That kind of a thing. This kind of makes sense there. But as it stands now, this seems desperate and like a lot. A little too late.