Dear Readers,
For the past months, big AI tech has been messing really hard with the Phoblographer. They’ve made our traffic have a major drop even though we’ve got clear evidence that we’re still reporting on the stories that you folks want to read. With that said, I’m pleading with you folks to help us out with a few things, please.
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I’m not kidding around on this. This is the hardest we’ve had problems like this for a very long time.
So what’s going on?
Well, a lot. Google changed Search and Discover to rely more on AI because they think that it should be what’s giving you the news instead.
Then Meta tried scraping our website to feed their AI.
Today, Microsoft is scraping our images to feed their AI.
And all of it is leaving us with a pittance despite us giving our best organic efforts to deliver good quality.
If we get 10,000 subscribers, we’d be more or less fine to survive for the year. But folks, we need your help.
