#David Owen Russell

[cemyafilmarsiv]

American Hustle directed by David Owen Russell

[blackramhall]

Margot Robbie - Amsterdam, David O. Russell (2022)

[you-just-said-that]

American Hustle(2014) ─dir. David Owen Russell

ⓒWATCHA

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1899, Captain Jack Harkness was sought out by the Torchwood institute who recognized his healing ability and picked up on him talking about (a time traveling alien known as) the Doctor and recruited him. Having been told by a fortune teller that he wouldn’t catch up with the Doctor for at least a century, Jack decided to join them to fill the time. ("Fragments", Torchwood, TV)

[notjustateaboy]

I want the largest Jack Harkness collection

And I need help-

Working links, websites, selling merchandise, giveaways are all appreciated 💙

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Christmas Bingo Card Follower Event 2024! - Only Two Squares Left!

My schedule is now booked up well into Dec so I thought it was time to start thinking about getting some Christmas Fics on the docket!

The fics will be booked in on Christmas Day and the eleven days prior.

As usual all fics will be available for Early Access on Patreon.

There will also be a mini New Years Eve card coming out in December to commemorate the new year 😊

As this is an event for followers I will only be accepting submissions by my followers, that means NO ANONS. If an Anon ask pops in for a submission on the bingo card, I will not be assigning the square.

The Rules:

No Anons

You must be a follower of the blog

One Bingo Square per Character

One Bingo Square/Char per ask

When a character is assigned I will add them to the bingo card so you can see it.

If a Char/Square isn't working for me, the Square will be reset.

As usual check the pinned post on my blog to see who I'm writing for. I've added a few newbies recently.

Any questions just ask!

Donna x

[morganhopesmith1996]

I also own Torchwood on Blu-ray too ♥️

[timeduchess]

Russell T. Davies 2005-2010 Era

What is this? Overall Marathon Post

Steven Moffat 2010-2017 Era

Chris Chibnall 2018-2022 Era

Russell T Davies 2023-Present Era

Episode List Below

DW S1:E1: Rose (First episode of new DW)

DW S1:E2: The End of the World (Relationship development; establishes more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E3: The Unquiet Dead (Establishes facts relevant to DW: Boom Town and T)

DW S1:E4-5: Aliens of London; World War Three (Introduces Harriet Jones; introduces the Slitheen; relationship development)

DW S1:E6: Dalek (Introduces Adam Mitchell and the Daleks; reveals more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E7: The Long Game (Adam Mitchell character development; establishes facts relevant to finale)

DW S1:E8: Father’s Day (Introduces Pete Tyler; major character development; Relationship development)

DW S1:E9-10: The Empty Child; The Doctor Dances (Introduces Jack Harkness)

DW S1:E11: Boom Town (Character development)

DW S1:E12-13: Bad Wolf; The Parting of Ways (Finale; major character development)

DW Children in Need 2005: Born Again Minisode

DW 2005 Christmas Special: The Christmas Invasion (First episode with [spoiler]; Establishes facts relevant to series 2 and 3 finales)

DW S2:E2: Tooth and Claw (Introduces Torchwood Institute)

DW S2:E3: School Reunion ([Re]Introduces Sarah Jane Smith; character development)

DW S2:E4: The Girl in the Fireplace (Just a great episode)

DW S2:E5-6: Rise of the Cybermen; The Age of Steel (Major character development; [spoiler] introduced)

DW S2:E9-10: The Impossible Planet; The Satan Pit (Relationship development; also great episodes)

DW S2:E13-14: Army of Ghosts; Doomsday (Finale; major character development)

DW 2006 Christmas Special: The Runaway Bride (Introduces Donna Noble)

T S1:E1: Everything Changes (First episode)

T S1:E2: Day One (Major character/relationship development)

T S1:E3 Ghost Machine (Major character development)

DW S3:E2 Smith and Jones (Introduces Martha Jones)

T S1:E5 Cyberwoman (Major character development)

DW S3:E4: Gridlock ([spoiler] development; will come up in finale; relationship development)

SJA S1:E0: Invasion of the Bane (First episode)

SJA S1:E1-2: Revenge of the Slitheen (Introduces Clyde Langer)

T S1:E5: Small Worlds (Just a great episode)

DW S3:E5-6: Daleks in Manhattan; Evolution of the Daleks (Plot development; events effect later episodes)

T S1:E6: Countrycide (A great episode; major relationship development)

T S1:E7: Greeks Bearing Gifts (Major character development)

DW S1:E7: The Lazarus Experiment (Relationship development)

T S1:E8: They Keep Killing Suzie (Major character/relationship development)

DW S3:E9-10: Human Nature; The Family of Blood (Major character development; establishes facts used in finale)

SJA S1:E5-6: Warriors of Kudlak (A great episode; minor relationship development)

T S1:E10: Out of Time (Character/relationship development)

SJA S1:E7-8: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Relationship development)

DW S3:E12: Blink (Just a great episode)

T S1:E11 Combat (Relationship development)

SJA S1:E9-10: The Lost Boy (Relationship development)

T S1:E12 Captain Jack Harkness (Reveals more of Jack's backstory; also a great episode)

T S1:E13 End of Days (Finale; major developments)

DW S3:E12: Utopia (Introduces [spoiler]; major character development)

DW S3:E13-14: Sound of Drums; Last of the Time Lords (Finale; major developments)

DW Minisode: Time Crash 2007

DW 2008 Christmas Special: Voyage of the Damned (Just a great episode; Introduces Wilfred Mott)

T S2:E1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Introduces John Hart; Major character/relationship developments)

DW S4:E1: Partners in Crime (Major character development)

DW S4:E2: Fires of Pompeii (Establishes facts used in finale)

T S2:E3: To the Last Man (A great episode; character development)

T S2:E4: Meat (Major character/relationship development)

DW S4:E3: Planet of the Ood (Major plot developments)

T S2:E5: Adam (Reveals more of Jack's backstory)

T S2:E6-7: Reset; Dead Man Walking (Major character development)

T S2:E8: A Day in Death (Major character development)

DW S4:E4-5: The Sontaran Stratagem; The Poison Sky (Establishes facts used in the finale)

DW S4:E7: The Doctor's Daughter (Character development)

T S2:E9: Something Borrowed (Major relationship development)

DW S4:E8: The Unicorn and the Wasp (Great episode)

T S2:E11: Adrift (Great episode; minor character development)

DW S4:E9-10: Silence in the Library; Forest of the Dead (Introduces River Song; great episodes)

T S2:E12: Fragments (Major backstories reveal; major plot development)

T S2:E13: Exit Wounds (Major character/relationship/plot development)

DW S4:E11: Midnight (Great episode)

DW S4:12-14: Turn Left; The Stolen Earth; Journey's End (Finale; Major character/relationship development)

SJA S2:E0-1: The Last Sontaran (Major character development)

SJA S2:E2-3: The Day of the Clown (Introduces Rani Chandra)

SJA S2:E7-8: The Mark of the Berserker (Clyde's family appears)

SJA S2:E9-10: The Temptation of Sarah Jane (Major character development; major backstory reveal)

SJA S2:E11-12: Enemy of the Bane (Plot development; Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's only appearance in New Who)

SJA S3:E1-2: Prisoner of the Judoon (Events effect future episodes)

SJA S3:E3-4: The Madwoman in the Attic (Major character development)

SJA S3:E5-6: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Major plot development)

DW 2009 Special: The Waters of Mars (Major character development)

T S3:E1-5: Children of Earth (Major character/relationship development)

DW 2009 Specials: The End of Time (Major character development)

[jesslovesboats]

I guess it's time to start moving some content from twt over here! For those who don't know me, I'm a public librarian with a special interest in polar and nautical history, and I love nothing more than connecting readers with good books. I've managed to convert some friends to my way of thinking, and one of them coined the phrase "sad boat books" to describe the types of books that I'm always reading and recommending. Here is my first list of sad boat books-- I can personally vouch for all of them!

New to sad boat? Start here to see if it’s for you!

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Terra Nova, A GREAT first expedition!

The Worst Journey in the World- The Graphic Novel Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston

Robert Falcon Scott Journals- Captain Scott’s Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott

“I Love Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Shackleton’s Boat Journey by Frank Worsley

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander

“I Hate Ernest Shackleton” starter pack

The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Polar Castaways by Richard McElrea and David Harrowfield

Roald Roald Roald!

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen by Stephen Bown

The South Pole by Roald Amundsen

The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford*

*DISCLAIMER: this guy hates Captain Scott and gets most of the Scott details wrong, read for Roald only!

The Franklin Expedition

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger

Erebus by Michael Palin

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Expedition edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson

Non-polar sad boats

The Bounty by Caroline Alexander

Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

Sometimes a sad balloon can be a sad boat

The Expedition by Bea Uusma

The Ice Balloon by Alec Wilkinson

Karluk/Wrangel Island, the expeditions of my heart

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven

The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett

The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor’s Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

Miscellaneous sad boat books that are well worth your time

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance by Mensun Bound

In The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides

Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

If you read and enjoy any of these, please let me know!

[jeyneofpoole]

hello ro jeyneofpoole boatgirl. The fitzjames news has rocked my world and rotted my brain because I love a historical mystery solved. As a AMC terror and a real life terror fan, what texts would you recommend to someone who just watched amc terror and now wants to read the research on the real thing

i love love love when i get this question ok. if your first exposure to the franklin expedition was the terror i think your best jumping-off point is michael palin’s erebus: the story of a ship. yes he’s the guy from monty python, no he’s not a professional historian, but it’s entertaining and well-researched and a great way to familiarize yourself with the general concepts that other more elaborate texts will touch on. then you just GOTTA read dr. owen beattie’s frozen in time, it’s one of the most iconic pieces of franklin literature and the descriptions of the beechey exhumations are so near and dear to me. some of the lead stuff is on shaky legs now, but this book was revolutionary for the longest time. then there’s may we be spared to meet on earth edited by russell a. potter et. al., which is a collection of letters to and from members of the franklin expedition. after you’ve read the others listed here you’ll be crazy enough to cry over this one.

a more niche read that i just finished was david murphy’s arctic fox, which is a biography of leopold mcclintock and his arctic career. it’s super compelling and mcclintock lived a very interesting life and seemed like a pretty okay guy especially for the time; murphy does a really good job and i don’t see this one recommended at all but it’s actually good. there are some minor issues with some little details surrounding, like, the peglar papers, for example, but that’s what the other books are for. honorable mentions include (ie they’re on my shelf staring me down) ice ghosts by paul watson, unraveling the franklin mystery: inuit testimony by david c. woodman, the man who ate his boots by anthony brandt, james fitzjames: the mystery man of the franklin expedition by william battersby, and icebound in the arctic by michael smith. but do NOT and i mean do NOT under any circumstances read dan simmons’ absolute drivel that novel isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. just watch the show and read these. ok love you byeeeee

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Masterlist

Last Updated: Sep. 5, 2024

How to navigate masterlist

Each player has their own mini masterlist when you click on their name

Each sport also has their own section to make players easier to find below

Edits with more than one player is at the very bottom of their own sport section under "group edits"

Sports I've edited

Hockey, Futbol(Soccer), Formula 1, Indycar, Motorcross/Supercross

Memes of Athletes below

Hockey

Adam Fantilli

Anthony Beauvillier

Auston Matthews

Braden Shneider

Brendan Brisson

Cole Caufield

Conor Bedard

Connor McDavid

Dylan Duke

Ethan Edwards

Frank Nazar

Gavin Brindley

Jack Hughes

Jamie Drysdale

Johnny Beecher

John Marino

Luca Fantilli

Luke Hughes

Mackie Samoskevich

Mark Estapa

Mathew Barzal

Matt Rempe

Matthew Tkachuk

Mitch Marner

Nico Hischier

Nick Moldenhauer

Nolan Moyle

Owen Power

Paul Bissonnette (Biz Nasty)

Quinn Hughes

Rutger McGroaty

Seamus Casey

Sidney Crosby

Thomas Bordeleau

Trevor Zegras

Tyler Duke

Will Smith

Futbol (Soccer)

Erling Haaland

Joao Felix

Mason Mount

Pablo Gavi

Pedri Gonzalez

Formula 1

Alex Albon

Carlos Sainz

Charles Leclerc

Daniel Ricciardo

Fernando Alonso

George Russell

Lando Norris

Lewis Hamilton

Logan Sargent

Max Verstappen

Oscar Piastri

Sergio (Checo) Perez

Indycar

Alexander Rossi

David Malukas

Josef Newgarden

Kyle Kirkwood

Marcus Armstrong

Patricio O'ward (Pato)

Will Power

Motorcross/Supercross

Jettson Lawrence

Haiden Deegan

Group Edits (all sports)

All Group Edits

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mw fcs?

          𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄 ! we prepared this in advance , and since the list is rather long , i'll leave it under the cut for you anon ! here are our most wanted fcs , in no particular order , semi sorted by age :

MWM 21+

mason gooding , charles melton , thomas weatherall , taylor zakhar perez , harris dickinson , avan jogia , damian hardung , archie renaux , alex fitzalan , lorenzo zurzolo , daniel ezra , drew starkey , jacob elordi , cha eunwoo , kim seok-woo , rudy pankow , damson idris , keith powers , kim minkyu , woo dohwan , sean teale , fabien frankel , antonio cipriano ,  jeong yunho , jacob anderson , callum turner , bill skarsgard , win metawin , danny ramirez , clinton liberty , xolo maridueña , jonhatan daviss , michael evans behling , nam joohyuk , cody christian , felix mallard , charlie  plummer , luke pasqualino , paul mescal , bright vachirawit , nick robinson , kubilay aka , evan mock , emilio sakraya , david iacono , broderick hunter , alp navruz , berk cancan , deniz can aktas , mert ramazan demir , byeon woo seok , kento yamazaki , kim jiwoong , d'pharaoh woon-a-tai , owen teague , noah lalonde , assad zaman , toby wallace , richard harmon , lakeith stanfield , song kang , dev patel , dominic fike , enzo vogrincic , park solomon , apo nattawin , joe keery , kiowa gordon , aaron piper , kofi siriboe , raymond ablack , kim min-jae , froy gutierrez , john boyega , jeremy allen white , logan lerman , jung jaehyun , matthew broome , tom blythe , mackenyu , michael  cimino .

MWF 21+

julia dalavia , ayo edebiri , jenna ortega , quannah chasinghorse , zion moreno , benedetta porcaroli , kitty chicha , taylor russell , giovana cordeiro , rabia soytürk ,  khadijha red thunder , moon gayoung , go minshi , davika hoorne , alice pagani , maris racal , kawennáhere devery jacobs , aubri ibrag , anya chalotra , sophie thatcher , ashley liao , nicole wallace , chase sui wonders , park sooyoung , ashley moore , jung hoyeon , melissa barrera , zendaya , jessica alexander , hunter schafer , mikey madison , madelyn cline , savannah lee smith , yang hyeji , ellie bamber , lizeth selene , yara shahidi , diana silvers , jung somin , samantha logan , margaret qualley , bahar sahin , aslihan malbora , halston sage , choi heejin , jasmin savoy brown , alva bratt , olivia holt , ayca aysin turan , melisa asli pamuk , odessa young , silan turkoglu , sobhita dhulipala , simay barlas , brianne tju , greta onieogou , bae ganghee , özge yağız , han sohee , jeon jong seo , yandah sallah , cierra ramirez , elle fanning , havannah rose liu , jennie kim , lola tung , madison bailey , maia refico , lily-rose depp , jane de leon , alisha boe , india eisley , ella purnell , milena tscharntke , daisy edgar jones , seychelle gabriel , laura harrier , grace van dien , sadie sink , kathryn bernardo , victoria pedretti , courtney eaton , maya hawke , emily rudd , kristine froseth , simone ashley , christian serratos , bruna marquezine , sadie soverall , krystal jung , laura kariuki , katherine mcnamara , adria arjona , eva de dominci , megan suri , niamh mccormack , anna sawai , pinar deniz , zorzo natharuetai , anya taylor joy , sarah gustafsson , seo yeji , antoinette robertson , derya pinar ak , celeste o'connor , amber midthunder , sofia carson , lovie simone , sasha calle , im jinah , adeline rudolph , ryan destiny , kim yerim , sasha luss , yaya urassaya , nana komatsu , neslihan atagül , paulina singer , ju jingyi , sasha lane , valentina zenere , camila mendes , amita suman , keke palmer , olivia cooke , isabela merced , gigi zumbado , frida gustavsson , samara weaving .

MWM 35+

oliver jackson-cohen , serkan çayoğlu , boyd holbrook , manny jacinto , santiago cabrera , kyle gallner , kim jihoon , oscar isaac , kivanc tatlitug , tom ellis , max riemelt , seo in guk , garrett hedlund , daniel sharman , ben barnes , lee je hoon , theo james , robert pattinson , gong yoo , lee pace , max irons , rahul kohli , shiloh fernandez , collin o’donoghue , daniel henney , tom hardy , sebastian stan , regé-jean page , nick sagar , michael b jordan , dan stevens .

MWF 35+

angela sarafyan , sophie cookson , ni ni , deniz baysal , katie mcgrath , keira knightley , lily gladstone , hazal filiz küçükköse , sonoya mizuno , rebecca ferguson , deborah ann woll , ming xi , lee dahee , nathalie emmanuel , ana de armas , angelina jolie , lupita nyong'o , anne hathaway , lea seydoux , yoghurt  nattasha .

MWM 50+

mads mikkelsen , colman domingo , timothy olyphant , idris elba , mahershala ali

MWF 50+

melissa mcbride , mädchen amick , rachel weisz , courtney cox , michelle yeoh

[you-just-said-that]

American Hustle(2014) ─dir. David Owen Russell

ⓒWATCHA

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1909, in a drunken stupor, Captain Jack Harkness’ men had run over a little girl and killed her. She turned out to have been the chosen one of the fairies. A week later when they were all traveling on a train, his men were all killed by the fairies and their mouths filled with rose petals. ("Small Worlds", Torchwood, TV)

[mariacallous]

There was a brief, strange moment in 2015 when Russell Brand mattered in mainstream British politics. With an election looming, the opposition Labour Party was trailing in the polls against a coalition government that was the very definition of establishment—led by an Eton- and Oxford-educated prime minister in David Cameron and his Westminster- and Cambridge-educated deputy, Nick Clegg, now president of global affairs at Meta. So the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, went seeking the endorsement of Brand, the actor, comedian, and emerging online provocateur whose anti-corporatist screeds to his 9.5 million Twitter followers and 100,000 YouTube subscribers gave him the appearance of a power player. Miliband got Brand’s endorsement but lost the election.

Since then, Brand’s reach has exploded. His YouTube channel now has 6.6 million subscribers, his X account more than 11 million followers. But his anti-establishment message has morphed, from a broader, almost coherent response to the politics of fiscal austerity that shaped the UK after the 2008 financial crisis to a series of cultish, conspiracy-driven narratives that draw in Covid denialism, Russian disinformation, and the far-right-inspired “Great Reset” theory, united by the meta-conspiracy that the mainstream—the “elites”—have darker agendas based on control.

On Saturday, the UK’s Channel Four aired an hour-long documentary in which several women accused Brand of rape and sexual assault. Before the broadcast, the comedian came out swinging. In a video on his YouTube channel, titled “So, This Is Happening,” Brand not only denied the accusations, but leveled some of his own: “[It] makes me question, is there another agenda at play?” he said.

One of Brand’s alleged victims, speaking on the BBC, called his statement “insulting” and “laughable.” But within the alt-media, there was a show of support from figures including Andrew Tate, the misogynist influencer who is awaiting trial for rape and human trafficking in Romania, Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, who now runs a conspiracy-inflected show on X, and Alex Jones, fined $1.5 billion for lies about the victims of a school shooting. X’s owner, Elon Musk, posted underneath Brand’s video: “Of course. They don’t like competition”—referring, apparently, to those same dark forces referenced by the comedian. The camaraderie between conspiracy theorists, the alt-right, and the “manosphere,” is grimly predictable. Their shared narrative is one of alienation from the mainstream, outsiderdom, and dark forces massing to thwart them. “Opposite day, but with real consequences for people,” as Marc Owen Jones, an expert on disinformation and social media at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, puts it.

It’s also their audience strategy and the foundation of their business model. Conspiracy influencers are content producers. Moments that generate intense emotions—even if the content producer is, themself, the focus of the scandal—are fantastic for engagement, and they feed the grim economics of the conspiracy business.

Brand’s YouTube channel is a compendium of contemporary bullshit. Covid lockdowns were exercises in social control. The US has “biolabs” in Ukraine; the West’s support for Ukraine is capitalist imperialism. Central bank digital currencies are the government’s attempts to control your money. Evolving gender norms are causing a “crisis in masculinity” and declines in fertility. There are routine crossovers between Brand’s content and the wider conspiracy cinematic universe, with clips on his channels of conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Junior, far-right Hungarian president Viktor Orban, and Carlson, who recorded an interview with Brand in August.

“I think Russell Brand’s a particularly interesting case,” Joe Ondrak, UK head of investigations at Logically, a misinformation tracking company, says. “He follows a lot of the ostensibly health yoga retreat, kind of left-leaning, anti-capitalist figures who got really suckered into Covid skepticism, Covid denialism, and anti-vax, and then spat out of the Great Reset at the other end.”

That journey is fairly common. The Covid pandemic led to a crossbreeding of multiple conspiracy theories, unifying multiple strands into a broad meta-narrative around elite capture and dark forces below the surface of the mainstream.

Like Carlson and others, Brand rarely directly restates conspiracy theories himself, instead presenting himself as “just asking questions.” It’s a rhetorical trick that makes it hard to pin down what is based on belief and where conspiracy influencers are following the money—self-radicalizing in the pursuit of more engagement.

“That’s the million-dollar question. How much of it is kind of earnest and genuine and a political shift, and how much of it is grifting?” says Joe Mulhall, director of research at the anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate. Mulhall thinks it’s a combination of the two. People get ostracized from the mainstream for views they’ve held or things they say. “And then they find this alternative space online, whereby all of a sudden their numbers grow very, very quickly, and they start to see financial incentives. And so they pivot increasingly in that direction. So it’s kind of symbiotic,” he says.

The business of alt-media personalities is not much different from that of other influencers. Top YouTubers can make millions of dollars a year from the platform by collecting a share of its ad revenue. But for conspiracy theorists or people on the political fringes, that can be fragile. They risk losing their entire revenue if they stray outside of the platform’s rules and get cut off, either entirely or by being demonetized—having their ad revenues turned off.

A 2022 paper by researchers at Cornell showed that “Alt-Lite, Alt-Right, and Manosphere” content creators on YouTube were increasingly diversifying their off-platform revenue streams, apparently to reduce the risk of demonetization. Tate, whose extreme misogyny finally got him banned from most mainstream platforms in 2022, funnels followers from his remaining channels into his paid-for “Hustler’s University.”

It’s a trajectory Brand has also followed. Some of his videos on YouTube have previously been demonetized by the platform after being reported for spreading Covid-19 misinformation. But pinned to the top of the comments under some of his recent posts is a promotional link to a website selling gold, posted from Brand’s account.

On Tuesday morning, YouTube suspended monetization on Brand’s account.

But Brand has other platforms. He has embraced the YouTube alternative Rumble, a Florida-based platform that has picked up a number of exiles from the mainstream. In March, Rumble announced that Brand had reached 1 million subscribers. The financial terms of that arrangement haven’t been released; Rumble didn’t respond to a request for comment.

“A lot of these figures will use a range of platforms simultaneously for different purposes. So if they can keep some form of presence on a mainstream platform, they will, and they will stick broadly within the guidelines of that platform, because they understand that the purpose of that is to reach new audiences,” Mulhall says. “And simultaneously, they will use alt-tech platforms for more extreme content, speaking to a harder audience.”

So-called “alt-tech” platforms like Rumble, Gettr, and Truth Social have become increasingly viable spaces to build audiences, outside of the stricter rules of Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook. While most mainstream platforms have at least paid lip service to reducing the amount of misinformation and conspiracy content, one seems to be embracing it. Under Musk, Twitter has unbanned accounts—including Tate’s—that were previously kicked off the platform, and allowed them to make thousands of dollars off their engagement. “With Twitter’s new monetization policy, there’s a whole host of extreme and difficult or problematic characters that seem to be now, once again, raising money from so-called mainstream platforms,” Mulhall says.

Brand hasn’t posted to any of the platforms since his “So This Is Happening” video—but he did perform at a live show on Saturday night, to a loyal crowd. On X many blue ticks—those users willing to back Musk’s vision with $8 per month—have rallied to support the actor. Misinformation expert Owen Jones did a snap analysis of responses to tweets by media organizations about the story. Seventy percent of top-rated tweets were in support of Brand, suggesting that the economics that support his pivot to conspiracy are bulletproof to scandal.

“It’s got its own built-in defense mechanism when people are deplatformed, because you’re selling people this idea that everything is orchestrated, you’re right to think that it’s all orchestrated. And if they get taken down, all these people just think, ‘Well, that’s because they were telling the truth,’” Ondrak says. “You know that you have an audience which is amenable to conspiracy theories, that you can come right off the bat with the defense that this is all a lie, this is control, because you know they’re going to believe it.”

The allegations against Brand are serious. He may, in time, face consequences in the real world, even as his online profile once again rises, hitched to a self-sustaining elite conspiracy. That conspiracy will roll on, because it’s pervasive, it speaks to something within millions of people. And because its economics don’t just work for content producers, they work for the platforms too.