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Can I take a moment of your time?
If you loved this show or even if you just like my content I would be very appreciative if you could sign this petition for us to try and save it. Or even if you're as angry as a lot of us that the streamers only count the viewer numbers of the first 30 days of any show, then PLEASE SIGN. This trend is destroying good TV and fandom by not allowing shows to grow organically even when they're critically acclaimed. We are losing so many brilliant, unique, (suspiciously queer 👀 there I said it) shows and at some point we need to put it our foots down. I think Dead Boy Detectives has become this for so many people.
We're making waves, we're trending, we're streaming so much that Dead Boy Detectives is in the Top 5 Everyone's Watching List in multiple countries. Or was No.1 in the UK for two days, and it's now at No.3. There is hope, for once, I like to think. The cast and crew are supporting us with the hashtags (a massive thing!), but every signature makes a difference.
Link here:
https://chng.it/7StBTPPMrF
And if you haven't seen it yet, please give it a chance. The unexpected bomb of Baby Reindeer drowned it in the algorithm on release, but despite that is critically acclaimed, with a 92% review score, a 99% audience score and has made the Best TV lists in what has be 30 articles worldwide right now. NOONE understands why it was cancelled. From the brainchild of SPN writers, starring Ruth O'Connell (our beloved Rowena), directed by Richard Speight Jr, it is the perfect replacement for SPN.
It's a beautiful, spooky and quirky show all about friendship, ghosts, mystery; and with so much heart it'll feel like your own is bursting out of your chest, all the while dealing with important issues like grief, death, shame and toxic abuse. This show was an bright spot in a really difficult year for me, and it will be the show I recommend for everyone. I haven't felt this way about a show since Sense8, and so you should all watch it and sign.
Available to stream on Netflix.
Similar shows we've lost along the way after one season: Lady Jane, Lockwood and Co, 1899, The Accolyte and so many more...
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Entertainment Weekly just placed Dead Boy Detectives on their "Top 19 Best Supernatural Shows to Stream Right Now" list.
Mind you, Dead Boy Detectives is making these lists AFTER cancelation! IT RANKED AT NUMBER 5/19 (and beat out some pretty big names, I might add). The EW is a hugely popular publication! It's so bonkers to me that Netflix would cancel such a highly beloved, successful show that I had to write them about it, yet again!
If you need inspiration to keep talking about Dead Boy Detectives and hold out hope that we can save this show, THIS should help. Keep streaming, keep promoting it EVERYWHERE, keep creating for it, and for the love of all things wonderful keep bothering Netflix. This show shouldn't have been canceled, and we need to keep reminding them of what a poor decision they're making. ESPECIALLY with GeekedWeek coming up, we need to be SUPER noisy for and about Dead Boy Detectives.
A transcript of the email I sent out today can be found below the cut! A list of Netflix exec emails can be found HERE.
!!!! Note: you can use my email as a framework or as inspiration, but DO NOT copy and paste it word-for-word, or else it will be marked as spam !!!!
Dear [Insert Recipient's Name],
I hope this email finds you well! I previously reached out regarding Netflix's unfortunate decision to cancel Dead Boy Detectives, but since our previous correspondence, there have been several articles admonishing the surprising and untimely cancelation of Dead Boy Detectives. The publications include but are not limited to BamSmackPow, CBR, CHIP, Quotenmeter, Serienjunkies, Serienfuchs, Filmstarts, Movie Pilot, Kino, Vodafone Deutschland, Dread Central, Pop Culture, Sentidog, Geek Girl Authority. and Animation World Network.
Three notable articles have come out post-cancelation that I'd like to highlight due to their succinct, well-informed perspectives on why canceling Dead Boy Detectives was a poor decision are as follows:
The Death of 'Dead Boy Detectives' Was Untimely by Lacy Baugher at Tellyvisions.org
Dead Boy Detectives: The Latest Casualty in a Concerning Trend of LGBTQ+ Show Cancellations by Sam Huang at TellTaleTV.com
Netflix made a grave mistake canceling 'Dead Boy Detectives' by David Opie at YahooNews
It would be remiss of me not to emphasize how these publications are not just central to the US and UK; the cancelation of Dead Boy Detectives is being reported and scrutinized internationally, in several languages and countries.
What truly prompted me to contact you again is an article that was released by Entertainment Weekly today, September 11, 2024. In the article, "The Best 19 Supernatural Shows to Stream Right Now," EW placed Dead Boy Detectives in the #5 slot: it outranked other shows on your platform such as Stranger Things (#13) and Wednesday (#18). The Sandman, the show which Dead Boy Detectives is a spinoff of, is notably not present on the list at all. You can find the article here on ew.com.
Dead Boy Detectives was also ranked as the #1 Best DC Live Action Show available on Netflix by MovieWeb, outranking titles such as The Flash (which has a whopping 9 seasons), Lucifer (a show that was so loved by fans that Netflix picked it up after its own untimely cancelation, mind you) and, yet again, The Sandman.
All this to say, Dead Boy Detectives is still making "Best of" lists even after its cancellation, and it is ranking exceedingly well on said lists! This speaks volumes in and of itself; people are just as outraged today as they were the day it was canceled and it's abundantly clear that critics and audiences alike love this show and want to see more of it! You have a hit show on your hands that is growing in popularity daily, meaning Netflix truly has everything to gain by listening to customers and rethinking this objectively unpopular and unfounded decision.
Please do not waste the immense potential of this incredible show that means so much to so many people. I appreciate your consideration today and implore you to listen to the outcries of fans and critics alike, to do right by the cast and crew of Dead Boy Detectives, and ultimately repeal its cancelation.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
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I saw a post which claimed since Americans are spending unprecedented amounts of money on holiday gifts this year [1][2]...
the American public isn't actually as strapped for cash as we say or think we are, and
Americans didn’t vote for Trump out of economic frustration.
Like.
I hope you guys know Americans aren't splurging on gifts because we can afford to do so.
The majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [3], and yet vacations are on the rise, with Millennials and Gen Z-ers at the front of the trend. [4][5]
It’s not excess capital. It’s nihilism.[6][7][8]
"If you work hard and save your money, someday you can buy a house/raise a family/retire." So goes the conventional wisdom, now fine viscera under the wheels of an Amazon forklift. Even older generations can't afford to retire these days [9]. You can buy a shed for the price of a master's degree. And how are you supposed to raise a child when your full-time job barely covers your grocery bills?
Knowing they'll never travel as a retiree, people are splurging on plane tickets right out of school. Knowing class mobility is a lottery pull, people are dumping their last few pennies into meme tokens and other get-rich-quick schemes. Knowing they're already saddled with lifelong debt, people are saying "fuck it" and grabbing a shovel—because at this point, what's a car payment on top of every other loan they'll never repay? "Things will keep getting worse anyway."
Americans are spending stupid amounts of money on vacations [10] and extravagant gifts [11], yes—but they're not spending THEIR money. They're spending Klarna's money, and the bank's money, and when the bills come due people aren't paying them. We're all just doing kickflips on our way down the drain.
The question, "How does killing the UnitedHealthCare CEO solve anything?" misses the point. The shooter may have believed he was doing the American people a favor, but I don't think the majority of Americans are cheering on Brian's death because they believe it will manifest universal healthcare. It's just nice to see the rich criminals who profit off our pain suffer for their choices.
Even if the Dems had acknowledged our financial straits (I find Atrioc's video "Slowly, Then All at Once" to be very helpful re: why the numbers look good but nobody can afford to live)...I still don't think Kamala Harris would've won the presidency. Again, Americans don't believe progress is possible anymore—at least not via our current system of government. Extremists are banking on a wholesale descent into anarchy. Your everyday worker is distracting themselves from impending financial implosion with daily Beverages (I'm stopping here to take a sip of my Rockstar energy drink). Hope is a heavy burden. Instead, people keep their eyes on their feet. One day at a time. Sometimes on its way to the brick wall, their speeding car hits a CEO—and sometimes it mows down a crowd of schoolchildren. Sometimes we're all just trashing the bathroom.
That's Donald Trump's presidential win, to me. Let the horse take over the hospital, America declared—why not, if none of us can afford a hospital visit anyway. Let the nation descend into anarchy and fascism—why not, if we never had rights/liberty to begin with.
It's not logical. It's lashing out in pain like a cornered animal.
The rule of law doesn't apply to the wealthy, as emblemized by our incumbent president's 34 felony charges. It punishes the marginalized by design, for the benefit of corrupt institutions. Harris would've given us a chance to get back on our feet...but with her centrist prosecutorial approach, she represents the law. Donald Trump represents chaos. He's a champion of the CEOs who bankrupt and maim and kill us, but as a certifiable toddler with no object permanence and a suitcase full of ketchup packets and nuclear launch codes, he's also a fucking nightmare to babysit around the White House. That's the best some people can hope for in this country: To give their tormentors a headache. To "trigger the libs." To treat their representatives to the smallest taste of their own helplessness and hopelessness and fear and anger and pain.
People do not have money. People do not have hope. People do not have compassion.
I don't feel any sympathy for Trump voters, and I don't mean to minimize the role of bigotry in this election. This country was founded on genocide and slavery, and that legacy still permeates our culture. I only mean to explain—not excuse—some of this group's behavior. It's a trend suffered on all sides of the aisle: Nihilism externalized as sabotage, whether directed at oneself or others. People are so sick of watching this boat sink into the ocean they've set it on fire just to feel like they had a say in it.
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The first presidential election in which every state picked their electors via statewide popular vote was 1868. Before that, at least one state had the legislature pick the winner (South Carolina was the last holdout). Back then, only white men over 21 could vote, but the electorate saw significant boosts in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment (white women) and 1972 following the civil rights movement (black men and women) and the passage of the 26th amendment (18 year olds).
The total number of eligible voters grows with the overall population of the country, and looking at the data since 1972 we can predict that there will be about 244 million eligible voters this year.
But eligibility is only half the equation. Actual voter turnout never even comes close to 100%. Since 1972, it has never gone above 66.6% (in 2020), averaging 57.2%
57.2% of 244 million voters would mean we'd see 140 million votes cast in November, but that's actually way lower than we would expect. Let's ignore turnout percentage (which fluctuates wildly between 50% and 60%) and look instead at the actual number of votes cast:
There were over 158 million votes cast in 2020, and given that we saw record turnout of 66.6% due to a number of simultaneous crises, it makes perfect sense that the total number of votes cast in 2024 would fall, but not all the way down to 140 million. Between 1984 and 1988, the popular vote dropped by 1 million. Between 1992 and 1996, the popular vote dropped by 8 million. Between 2008 and 2012, the popular vote dropped by 2 million. No polls seem to indicate an 18 million dropoff in voter turnout this year; that would be unprecedented. According to the line of best fit, it is much more likely that we'll see ballpark 150 million votes cast, probably closer to 151 million. That would indicate a voter turnout of around 62%, which is higher than average but more realistic.
Since 1972, the two major parties combine to win an average of 95.5% of the popular vote per election. Third party candidates do well in waves, with considerable showings (over 5%) in 1980, 1992, 1996, and 2016. Since Kennedy dropped out of the race and neither the Libertarians nor the Greens are making waves as spoilers this year, we can assume that the Democrats and Republicans will have a better than average showing. Looking at the trend lines for major and third party percentages, it would show Kamala Harris receiving 51.7% of the vote (about 78 million), Donald Trump receiving 45.0% (about 68 million), and third party candidates combining for 3.3% (about 5 million).
To scale:
I do not believe that the actual final results will be anywhere close to this prediction. I think that these extrapolations show Kamala Harris overperforming by a considerable amount. She will almost certainly win the popular vote, I don't doubt that, but I think she will win a plurality instead of a majority (under 50%). Donald Trump is not wildly more or less popular than he was the last two times, in which he received 46.1% and 46.8% of the vote, so I do not think it is unreasonable to assume he will receive a minimum of 47% this year, given demographic shifts among suburban voters, black men and Hispanics. He may even perform better than that, but not better than Harris. I would bet my life on that fact. Democrats have won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 elections, and polls do not show Trump magically coming up from behind on his third try.
When we exclude years with exceptionally high third party turnout, the major parties average 98.3% instead of 95.5% since 1972, but we can't just pick and choose what data to include. At this point, I'm deviating from the hard numbers and am operating more on vibes. Third party turnout will be lower than in 2016 (5.7%), but probably higher than in 2020 (1.8%). If we take the 3.3% figure from the trend lines, that would mean Harris and Trump would receive a combined 96.7% (146 million votes). If we assume Trump has a floor of 47% support (about 71 million votes), then the best Harris could do is 49.7% (about 75 million votes). There is no conceivable scenario where Trump wins the popular vote, so his ceiling (and Harris's floor) is something like 48.35% (73 million votes each).
The only president to win two non-consecutive terms was Grover Cleveland, but he actually won the popular vote all three times he ran, 1884 (48.8%), 1888 (48.6%, lost the electoral college), and 1892 (46.0%). Trump is the exact opposite, having NEVER won the popular vote but still won the electoral college regardless. Franklin Roosevelt won four times in a row, 1932 (57.4%), 1936 (60.8%), 1940 (54.7%), and 1944 (53.4%). There was a major dropoff between his second and third bid, even though he was ridiculously popular. Trump is NOT ridiculously popular, but I don't think he's going to perform worse this time. Cleveland performed worse because there was a significant third party challenger, and FDR was the first sitting incumbent to run for a third term (at a time when WW2 was ramping up and voters were afraid of America joining). Trump does not have either of these disadvantages, so while it's possible he could perform worse than in 2020, I think Harris has so much baggage attached to her name (real and imaginary) that Trump will do better than he did against Clinton or Biden. A lot of voters are fed up with him, but that doesn't mean they will support Harris.
I have no real data to confirm these confidence intervals, but this what I would expect next month
47.0% to 48.3% for Trump (71 million to 73 million), I'd say 48.0% (72.5 million)
48.4% to 49.7% for Harris (73 million to 75 million), I'd say 48.7% (73.5 million)
Now, the electoral college is anybody's guess! Who fuckin knows?
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By: Ryan Burge
Published: Jul 24, 2023
A few months ago, my wife and I were driving into St. Louis and were about ten miles away from downtown in a suburb on the Illinois side of the river. We drove by this large commercial building next to the interstate that had a fairly nondescript sign with a single word on it, “Ascend.”
She looked at me and said, “Is that a church?” I honestly had no idea. So, she Googled it. Guess what Ascend is? It’s a marijuana dispensary. Illinois just legalized marijuana for recreational sale a few years ago and there are lots of new stores opening up all over the state. That’s the world we live in right now, not entirely sure if that new big warehouse by the highway is selling recreational drugs or preaching Jesus.
That little anecdote is indicative of a much bigger trend happening in American Christianity. The First United Methodist Church is out, Elevation is in. There are very few new Southern Baptist Church buildings springing up across the United States, but there are at a ton of Journey/Lift/Resolution churches being planted every week across the country.
Obviously, the rise of the Nones is the biggest story in American religion right now, but the second most important shift in the landscape is the unmistakable rise of the Nons. The only religious family that has grown over the last decade is non-denominational Protestant Christianity. There’s little reason to believe that their ascendance will slow at any point in the near future.
If the future of American society is a shift away from institutions, there’s no bigger beneficiary of this trend in the religion space than non-denominational evangelicalism.
In 1972, less than 3% of all American adults indicated that they were non-denominational. That share has only risen from there. In the 1970s and 1980s, the growth rate was undoubtedly small. It took until 1996 for the share of Americans who were non-denominational to surge past five percent. But from that point forward that line has only gotten steeper.
They got to 7.5% of the population in 2004. They reached ten percent of the sample by 2012. The most recent data says that nearly thirteen percent of all adults in the United States are non-denominational Protestant Christians. There are more non-denominationals in the U.S. today than mainline Protestants.
Here’s a key part of that story, though. This is not a situation where “a high tide raises all boats.” Instead, it’s non-denominational Protestants are gaining new members hand over fist, while other denominations are losing folks by the tens of thousands.
A lot more data about denominational decline can be found here:
You can see that even in the GSS data. In 1984, about 13% of Protestants were Southern Baptist, and another 12% were United Methodists. Those are easily the two largest Protestant denominations in the United States. Non-denominationals, were just about 5%.
In 2018, the picture is entirely different. Now, just 7.5% of Protestants are United Methodists and another 10% are Southern Baptists. While, the share who are non-denominationals has now risen to nearly 22%. Using this measure, it would appear that there are more non-denoms that United Methodists and Southern Baptists combined.
Other data sources aren’t so sure about that, though. The 2020 Religion Census took great pains to count the number of non-denominational folks in the United States. That’s no easy task given the diffused nature of this religious expression.
In total, the Religion Census managed to captured a total non-denominational population of just over 21 million. That makes them the second largest religious tradition in the United States, only trailing the Catholic Church at nearly 62 million. For comparison, the Census counted 8 million United Methodists and 17.6M Southern Baptists, which a lot more than show up on their member rolls.
But, it’s worth thinking about just how many non-denominationals there are in comparison to other groups that are not the Southern Baptists and United Methodists. There are more non-denoms than: LDS + Muslims + ELCA + AoG + Jehovah’s Witnesses + Natl. Miss. Bapt. + LCMS + TEC + Natl. Bapt. Convention. Those are all major traditions in their own right but are just dwarfed in size by non-denominationals. And, again, most of those denominations are declining in membership rapidly now.
Just how dominant non-denominational Christianity has become moves into sharper focus with looking at the data spatially. I calculated the largest religious tradition in all fifty states, based on total number of adherents.
Given the previous data about the overall size of the Catholic Church, it should come as no surprise that it is the largest tradition in 37 states that really span the country from coast to coast. The Southern Baptists are the largest in nine total states, and those states are in the Bible Belt - a region that runs from Oklahoma to the west and North Carolina to the East. The LDS is the largest in both Idaho and Utah. While, non-denominationals are the largest in three states: Washington, Alaska, and West Virginia.
But this gets much more interesting when looking at the second largest religious group in each state. Now, the Catholic church leads in six states. That means that they are #1 or #2 in 43 total states. But look at non-denominationals - they are the second most popular choice in 27 different states ranging from California to Maine. That means that they are top 2 in 30 total states. The SBC is first or second in only 12 states. No other denomination hits double digits.
The Catholic Church aside, there’s no other group that can come close to the spatial dispersion as the non-denominationals. Looking at these maps, there’s no regional trend for this group. They do well in the Pacific Northwest and in the Bible Belt. There are lots of them in New England and the Southwest. They are really everywhere.
Let’s get more granular now. The Religion Census also reports county level data on adherents and congregations. I decided to visualize the share of each county’s adherents who are specifically part of a non-denominational congregation. Before we get to the map, let me point out that there is a non-denominational church in 2,707 counties in the United States. The total number of counties is 3,142 - thus 86% of American counties have a non-denominational presence.
Where are they the most widespread? It’s a weird result, really. And not entirely what I would have guessed. There is a pretty solid pocket of non-denoms in the Pacific Northwest, especially around the Seattle and Portland metro areas. But then there are really high concentrations in the Rust Best, throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Michigan.
Then, there is strip of dark purple that is pervasive in places like Virginia and the Carolinas. However, Florida is on a whole other level when it comes to non-denominationals. Of the 47 counties in Florida, non-denominationals make up at least 20% of all religious adherents in 26 of them. Texas also has 26 counties that make it into this top bin, but Texas also has 202 total counties. So, it’s not even close to a fair comparison.
I wanted to end this whole thing with a scatterplot as a first little attempt at trying to understand what factors drive more non-denominationals in a county. One likely culprit is age. The perception of these new upstart churches are young couples with lots of kids running around. But does the data back that up?
I grabbed some recently released Census data about the median age of each county in 2022 and merged it with the Religion Census and then shot a straight line through over 3,000 data points. What I found goes against the perception - non-denominationals are actually more prominent in older counties.
The difference is not a huge one. For instance, about 15% of all religious adherents are non-denominational in counties where the median age is 30 years old. In counties where the median age in 60, about 18% of the adherents are non-denominational.
There are mountains of more ink that can be spilled over the rise of non-denominational Christianity. I think it’s probably the most visible manifestation of how American society, and by extension American religion has changed so dramatically in the last two decades. We used to be a nation of institutions. The government, unions, and religious denominations were held in high regard by the average American.
Now, American society is largely bottom up. It’s not institutions that run the show, it’s individuals. Society has demolished the gatekeepers. Social media allows anyone with an internet connection to build a following in the tens of thousands in mere days.
Denominations used to absolutely dominate American religion. The leaders of the United Methodists, the Episcopalians, and the Evangelical Lutherans got to decide who could become a pastor and where they would be shepherding a flock. Now, a handful of non-denominational churches are started every weekend in the United States, completely from the grassroots.
There are tremendous benefits to this new approach to religion. There are also very real downsides. One thing is clear to me: non-denominational churches are only going to increase in the years to come. What I cannot fully predict is the long-term impact they will have on American society and American religion.
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One hopes that if whatever amount of Xianity persists as people leave religion entirely, that it will be sufficiently nondescript enough that it will have minimal, if any, influence on public policy, and be generic enough that people will quickly figure out how that being anything anyone wants makes it human-created and human-driven.
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Some pretty rough poll numbers for Biden just came out today. I know it's way too early to worry about Trump winning in 2024, but I just wanted to see where you are right now in your level of concern.
Also, the map below seems like a pretty easy path for Biden, no? We know that Arizona and Georgia are trending blue, so I feel like in a Biden-Trump rematch specifically, Biden just has to win those two states again, plus Nevada and Michigan (not that hard, and definitely easier than winning PA or WI). Any thoughts on this path?
Hi!
My two cents on that ABC/WaPo poll is that of course all presidential elections will be close because of Republicans' advantage in the electoral college, but this is one poll where Biden's approval is markedly lower than in all other polls, and also, if you look at the sample size, it's like 20% Democrats, which is really not representative of the country. I'd just throw it in the averages and move on since it's also like 18 months before the 2024 election and a lot of things can change in that time.
Getting down into the nitty gritty, I think Georgia is the bigger issue for Democrats than Wisconsin or Pennsylvania because Brian Kemp won by 8 in 2022, and even Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin only lost by 1 while Governor Evers won another term. I also think Pennsylvania will be fine because Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman won in relative landslides in 2022.
At the end of the day, I think Biden wins his 2020 states with North Carolina and Texas as light red tossups (with Trump and Cruz on the ballot, Texas will be closer than 2020 although Trump will still likely win it by 2, which may be enough to knock off Cruz if we're lucky since he'll almost certainly underrun Trump), and if Biden is winning North Carolina, he's won the presidency. Post-2020, what worries me is that the election won't be called the night of, which means there's additional chances for Trump to yell about election fraud but then again, election deniers faced a real penalty in 2022 so here's hoping that it's not as crazy as 2020.
The thing is, we all knew by like mid-morning November 4, 2020, after Wisconsin was called at like 2am and Michigan was called hours later that Biden had won the presidency, and it really was bullshit that the Republican legislature of Pennsylvania refused to count the votes (although I think there's a law against counting mail-in ballots as they come in which is another issue) and Nevada refused to call it for Biden until Pennsylvania did. That's part of why Florida gets called immediately, like they have the best ballot counting operation in the country.
I'd say a good litmus test for 2024 is how Florida and North Carolina go, like if Biden wins North Carolina and keeps Florida within 5, he's won the presidency so rest easy, but if they're called extremely quickly for Trump, and especially if Duval County aka Jacksonville, which flipped to Biden in 2020 flips to Republicans in 2024, start worrying.
Also, nobody wants to admit this but Ron DeSantis will absolutely clean up the Sunbelt; I flat-out don't see Arizona or Georgia as blue states, I see them as anti-Trump states! Brian Kemp won, and Maricopa County suburbanites literally intentionally split their tickets so that Kimberly Yee, the only normal Republican, won by 20 even while Mark Kelly and Katie Hobbs also won. They WANT to vote for Republicans, they just don't want to vote for crazy freaks who give off school shooter vibes, and while DeSantis probably won't play well in the Midwest, I see him handily winning the Sunbelt. All polling has him winning Georgia by 5!
But anyways, does that offer some insight?
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🧋 What is your favorite fanwork you've made this year?
🧋 Did you participate in any fan exchanges this year? If so, what was your favorite gift you received?
🧋 Do you have any projects for next year fanworks?
🧋 Did you do something new or more experimental this year? Is there a new approach you're interested in taking in the future?
🧋 Looking back, is there a fanwork you made this year you are dissatisfied with?
🧋 What fanwork have you published this year that you feel shoyld have gotten more attention/reactions?
🧋 What (part of) fandom did you write for the most this year? Which (part of) fandom do you think you'll be focusing on next year?
🧋 What's a fandom trend you hope dies before the new year comes?
1) uuhh, tough one xD
I think that would be ‘I Will Hold Your Hand Forever’ , but it’s a close contest 😆
But I generally do better with that sort of fic.
2) unfortunately no. Personal life (read here: being an autistic mom of autistic/ADHD-kids who need my support doing their day-to-day school stuff in a country that has next to no support for autistic people with “lesser” support needs) did not allow for any time-critical writing- projects. I’d love to do it again next year, though.
3) Maaaany. For one, my current WIP “A Deed Unforgiven” is still to be finished, but I have many more stories outlined that wait to be written, and two completed works that wait for the right occasion to be published.
4) no, not really. I’d love to, though. Only I’m an entirely non-creative person, so I need people to give me ideas 😆
5) not any more (muhahahaha). I was so disappointed with “Yet Were Its Making Good, For This” at first, but I slowly worked through it and edited it a lot and now I’m quite happy with it 😁
(Oh, and I’m still biting my arse for a mistake I made in the portrait of Olwë I wrote for the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild, but I’m not dissatisfied with the whole thing)
6) uh. Ahm, what to answer to that now… 🤣 I’d say all of them but I can’t do that because its so very ungrateful
No, in all earnesty, I love feedback, I love to discuss my work with other writers and readers and just other people interested in the matter. But I know I’m very specific in what I write (or whom I write about) and the number of people who are into it is limited. That does not make the attention my stories get any less valuable, though. (!!)
If I had to pick one, though, that I wish had got more attention, it’s “The Boat To Irmo’s Realm, Or: The Story Of An Untired Elfling” . I really love that one a lot.
7) Nothing changing anytime soon, I’m afraid. I’ll stay with the Royal House of Doriath (probably for the rest of my (writing-) life 😅 They’re my family and my special interest and my obsession)
8) All the bashing. And the comparing Tolkien’s lore to modern politics, especially without giving it a thorough thought and without making the effort to really see it as a world of its own rather than an allegory for our modern days. Elves and Men are not one race, Elves are NOT a synonym for… nah, not even going close to that row now.
I wish people would stop judging other people by their favourite characters (idk if that works both ways, if people who love the Noldor in Beleriand get accused of being ok with murder or called colonialists, but I’m sick and tired of being called a racist and supporter of white supremacy. Like wtf guys, I’ve been a feminist and socialist my entire life. Just… no! Read. Like READ!)
Also, I’d love to see this fanon-over-canon-trend die down.
Bit none of that will happen. Ah well. Peace, folks!
Thanks so much for asking me and letting me ramble about my works ❤️ That’s such a lovely idea!
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Morgan Wallen's Net Worth: How the country music star struck gold
Morgan Wallen seems to be everywhere these days! Everywhere you look, starting from the radios and social media, not to mention his stage: this country music artist has captured the industry in a way you never could even think of. Maybe you're one of his most fervent fans, but you have always had that question, "How much does Morgan Wallen's net worth? Well, you're in luck because we are delving into his career, earnings, and how he was able to build such an enormous fortune.
Who is Morgan Wallen?
Brief detour into Morgan Wallen's background before the numbers - For those who are almost entirely unknowledgeable of his coming to fame, here is a brief, brief backstory: Morgan Wallen was born in 1993 in Sneedville, Tennessee. He grew up in a small town where music was forever a part of his life. However, when he went to The Voice competition in 2014, that is when the world took note of his talent. Though he never had it close to the very top, he somehow found the right platform for his career. After signing with Big Loud Records, Wallen came forward with his debut album If I Know Me way back in 2018. Then and forever.
How Morgan Wallen Made His Money
Now, for the juicy part—let's talk dollars and cents. How exactly did Wallen manage to build such a jaw-dropping net worth?
1. Album Sales
Morgan Wallen had a huge hit with his debut album, If I Know Me. But it was dangerous indeed-the Double Album that finally set him on his way to making money, big-time. Singles like "Wasted on You" and "More Than My Hometown" kept him on top. The album remained number one on the Billboard 200 for a whopping 10 weeks in a row! Sales of an album like that? Now that's where the big bucks come in. Actually, Dangerous came out as one of the best-selling country albums in years. Owing to millions of albums sold worldwide, it is hardly surprising that the net worth of Morgan Wallen shot up rapidly.
2. Revenue from streaming
In fact, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music have transformed the way artists earn money. And you know what? His songs are streamed billions of times every year. Click by click, with each streamer, he earns royalties that add to his bottom line. According to estimates, in 2023, his songs were streamed more than 5 billion times around the world-that's very serious money-making! For artists like Morgan Wallen, streaming pay is a gold mine. Okay, the pay per stream may seem minuscule, but those numbers add up quick enough.
3. Concert Tours
Have you ever seen Morgan Wallen perform? No? Then you probably heard the chatter about his electric shows. Touring is one of the biggest revenue streams for any artist, and Wallen is no different. His tour in 2022-Dangerous-was one of the highest-grossing country tours of the year, selling out arenas across the United States. Ticket sales, merchandise, and VIP packages all chip in to churn out hefty gains. After all, country music listeners don't mind being overt about love. Such tours could be a cash cow that brings in millions within a few months!
4. Brand Deals and Endorsements
With fame comes numerous brand partnerships for celebrities. And Morgan Wallen has partnered with a handful that really fit with his down-to-earth, country-boy persona. From jeans brands to whiskey companies, these deals really add some nice numbers to his cash flow. In all, though the actual figures aren't known, it's fair to assume Morgan Wallen's net worth has a pretty good influx from these partnerships.
So, What Is Morgan Wallen's Net Worth?
And here's the latest scoop on Morgan Wallen's net worth - it's a whopping $12 million, according to latest updates. Not bad for someone who barely ever thinks about establishing himself in the last few years, right? This wealth comes not only from album sales and revenue he gets from the stream but also concert tours aside from endorsement deals. And with his career on an upward trend, this number will surely rise further.
Morgan Wallen's Success By the Numbers:
Net worth: He stands at $12 million and growing! Dangerous (The Double Album): Over 4 million copies sold worldwide Touring revenue: He'll generate more than $40 million in ticket sales plus merchandise Streaming income: Comprises billions of streams on various music platforms including Spotify and Apple Music.
Controversies within Morgan Wallen's Career
Morgan Wallen's journey is impossible to discuss without the controversies accompanying his path. A video surfaced, featuring inappropriate language being used by Wallen, and thus putting him under fire early in 2021. He was temporarily suspended by his label, and his music was pulled from some of the radio stations. In spite of all this, he still has many fans who support him, and his sales as well as streams are going up while he's being suspended. Ironically, this scandal never seemed to dwindle down his earnings in the long run. It may have even been the other way round and increased his visibility. Public apologies were issued by Wallen, but he has tried to regain his reputation as a performer since this whole fiasco has added another twist to the mystery of his career.
Conclusion
From small town Tennessee to country music superstardom, Morgan Wallen is making some amazing trips, and as a person with an estimated net worth of around $12 million, his hard work, talent, and business acumen definitely seem to be paying off in a big way. And the best thing? He's just getting started. As he continues to drop hit after hit and fill arenas around the world, it's anyone's guess as to how far his net worth will climb. You may be a die-hard fan or simply curious as to the financial success of this singer: in any case, Morgan Wallen is definitely here to stay-and he's got the bank account to prove it!
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FTX’s fund allocation draws market attention
1. **FTX’s fund allocation draws market attention**
Recently, FTX is distributing a total of $16 billion in funds, including $12 billion in cash. After this capital flows back into the market, it is expected to drive investors back into the market and trigger a new round of buying.
2. Global Liquidity Index and Market Rebound
The correlation between the cryptocurrency market and global liquidity is becoming increasingly clear. Whenever the global liquidity index reaches current levels, the market usually follows a strong rally.
3. Future Potential of Ethereum ETF
Although the Ethereum ETF is progressing slowly, its prospects are still exciting. As time goes by, this field is expected to achieve a faster pace of development.
4. BlackRock’s BUILD Fund Outlook
In addition to ETFs, the optimistic attitude of BlackRock, the world's largest asset management company, towards blockchain technology cannot be ignored. The BUILD fund is a reflection of this attitude, and it is only the beginning of its layout in this field.
5. Goldman Sachs’ Tokenization Plan
Not only BlackRock, but other large institutions such as Goldman Sachs are also actively embracing tokenization technology. This trend shows the growing recognition of blockchain technology by traditional financial institutions.
6. The impact of the US election on the crypto market
Trump’s campaign dynamics have a potentially positive impact on the cryptocurrency market. Due to his administration’s support for the crypto industry, the market is paying close attention to his campaign performance.
7. Market expectations of rate cuts
The market generally expects that there may be three interest rate cuts this year, among which the probability of a 25 basis point rate cut in September is as high as 90%.
8. Ordinary investors remain on the sidelines
Despite the gradual recovery in the market, Google search volume for “cryptocurrency” and “Bitcoin” remains at low levels. In addition, the Coinbase application is only ranked 416th, showing that ordinary investors still have a strong wait-and-see mood.
9. **Key Support Level for US Dollar Index**
The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) has continued to trend lower over the past few months and is now close to a key support level. If this support level is breached, it could have a significant positive impact on the cryptocurrency market.
10. **Bearish factors fading**
The main reasons for the previous market sell-off, such as the MtGox incident, the German Bitcoin sell-off, Jump Trading’s market operations, recession concerns and geopolitical conflicts, seem to be gradually subduing, which has brought more optimistic expectations to the market.
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Gaming apps converting earnings to crypto, Rs 700 crore moved out of India, reveals GST pro
“Someone asked me what is the best time to invest in India, I told him in my opinion the best time to invest was July 24th, 1991, which is the day Manmohan Singh gave the budget, the index of 1400, the Sensex I believe was around 1400 odd there and that day the cards were open. He knew that India was going to change and go to a better place and subsequent events have proved it completely right. The next best time to invest is today. I mean if you have not invested in India, you gotta start doing it now,” says Ramesh Damani, Member, BSE.
Damani says: “All my predisposition tells me to remain invested, do not get scared by the volatility and I have not been for 30 years, I have always remained almost fully invested in Indian markets, so I do not get scared with the volatility. The best is yet to come.”
What a delight to have you on ET now. Thank you for joining us. It is always a pleasure to be with you and thank you so much for the very kind words. And I will say learn to be bullish in India, I learned from our common friend Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and my mentor RK Damani. They are the ones who taught me that India is a growth country. It is so populated and so there is only upside. I owe a lot of debt to those two people at least.
To be fair, you have always identified mega trends. And before the world started using the word mega trends, you started practicing the whole thesis of looking at the big picture and then identifying companies within that. Yes absolutely right. I tried to do that. When I came back in the late 80s to India, the mega trend was cement shares. It was actually morphed by what was called the liberalization trend that was taking place in India. After that, I realized the big money is made in the big swing and you need to identify the big swing. So we were very lucky we got the 2000 technology trend right. And then I tried to follow each bull market and try to spot the leadership in this bull market.
I have been at somewhat of a thought process trying to figure out how to label this bull market that started. You know how we label this bull market? I finally had what you call eponymy moment which says that the label would have caused the growth of the great Indian middle class. I think that is going to be a great story. The new book out which I would recommend. I have not read it yet but I have ordered it is by Homi Kharas called The Middle Class. A lot of my ideas are from there.
He says that it is the middle class that started in England in the 18th-19th century that is shaping our world today. And he says that out of a population of about 8 billion 4 to 5 billion are now in the middle class. And the maximum number of middle class are coming from India rather than from places like America. So that is going to be a major trend because the middle class is roughly defined as having a PPP purchasing power parity of about $12 per day which is significantly above the poverty level of $2 a day.
That means at that point they can save, they can invest, educate, travel and do a number of things. And what we are seeing perhaps in India is the beginning of a hockey stick curve as our per capita has gone over $2,500 and the middle class expanded quite handsomely. They are now demanding action on things from climate change, to travel, to better education, to better living standards. That will be the mega trend which is not only shaping this bull market but also the society around us.
What is right and wrong in this market? We can argue both ways. What is your assessment? Well you know I think there is much to be right in this market. I think the last few days we have seen a significant fall in the market. I think we have added, if I am not mistaken, about 13 crore demat accounts in India, a majority of which have come in the last three years. All of them have been uniformly optimistic which is good. But they are getting a lesson to understand exhibits in the market, the difference between what I call risk and volatility.
Risk is the choice of permanent loss of capital which is very dangerous and you do not want to be in that situation. Volatility is what happened yesterday and what happened the day before yesterday and what will keep on happening in the markets. That market is correct. The next 2,000 points on the Sensex can be up and down. Nobody knows what is going to happen. Maybe an astrologer can say what will happen. But my strong feeling is that the next 20,000 points on the Sensex are higher because of the unfolding demographics, digitization and democracy that has taken root in India. So I feel that there is a lot that is going on right with this market.
What is going wrong in the market? A bull market like this will always lead to excesses, to overstretched valuations and will lead to unnecessary confidence and sometimes regulatory changes that are important or regulation changes that are important being pushed aside because the market is doing so well. We hope those mistakes do not happen. But there is a lot to be thankful for and a lot to be looking forward to being optimistic over the next few years rather than being pessimistic.
How are you approaching this market, are you fully invested? Yes, I am fully invested. I barely have any cash which is rare for me. Typically, I go in with 5-10% cash into the bull market but as I have aged and matured, I have been more confident putting all the money on the table and letting the risk come where it will. I feel there is good reason for optimism and one of the sectors that I called this time was of course the public sector stocks and they have had a brilliant run out there.
We need to give credit to the Modi government that the public sector, which was one of the drags on the Indian economy, has turned around. The people in DIPAM are really on top of the game. For the first time they are doing an OFS and the prices go sharply higher after the OFS, you know, so the fall is very temporary in those prices. I think the debate that PSUs should be privatized or value will not be unlocked has now receded. We are fine if these companies are so well managed.
One very important thing that people missed in the stock market was that a) the government would use these public sector units as the blunt edge for capital expansion and b) that they were telling them that you have to pay 30% of its dividends.
Two, three years ago, you were getting these companies on today's earnings and at a 7-8% yield which is an extraordinary bonanza the investors got early. So, it has been a good place and I am very clear, including after what the prime minister said in the Parliament and I am sure you noticed that. Basically, the Prime Minister of India going on the floor or well of Parliament and saying a bullish case of public sector in stocks, when did that happen? It has never happened before. So we were ecstatic when the prime minister did that.
It was in mid-August sometime and so my personal feeling is that the leadership is very much intact with the public sector stocks. They probably have a large-ish way to go still because typically, in the bull market leadership, the stocks go up 10x 20x after some point. So I would remain invested in good quality businesses.
The aggregate market cap for PSUs including LIC and some new IPOs is up 3x, that is aggregate market cap. It has been a phenomenal run and plus you got so much dividend out of it. I mean you were getting these stocks basically at 4-5% yield and with a certainty of an order book, it is not that the order books were speculative. We knew the order books for the next five years. So, I think there was a whole debate which I think was wrongly conceived in the stock market last year that you buy quality at any price and, of course, that is a mislead, you cannot buy quality at any price. There is a price that you pay will reduce your investment returns without doubt and I think the people who stuck to finding value investing and trying to find value irrespective of the PSU, smallcap, largecaps, did well.
So, if you look at some of the exchanges, the major exchanges remain stable where the unloved exchanges went up. The FMCG and the private banks did not do well. The PSU banks did so well. So, the market noted the cheapness of those particular sectors and rewarded those who bet on that sector very handsomely and I have been lucky in that.
Within that you identified railways. You have gone on record and you have said that you bought into the railway PSU basket, less of defence and more of railways. Not true. Actually, my first bet was on defence and second was on railways.
But you bought both. I bought both and I bought both with – not conviction but I just felt that they were too cheap. I bought all the defence companies. Some of them are extraordinary businesses and they continue to do well and what has happened is that we have gone from importing a lot of the stuff to making the stuff ourselves and now we are exporting it.
Look at the number of orders that say a company like Bharat Dynamics is getting or Hindustan Aeronautics is getting. An extraordinary shift has taken place. So, if you ask me within the PSU sector where is the leadership? I would say it is in the defence.
Also read | Mutual funds join multi-billion dollar PSU rally, eye 2014 record in election year And you think that one should look at these stocks barring the volatility which could happen 10-15-20% nobody knows, but the leadership sector you think is with PSUs as a bracket and within that, defence and railways could be subparts? I think so and I mean just to point out there is a lot of talk about the PSUs over many years and I just wish your people who come on the show and speak folios there, see a company like Bharat Electronics which I own and I am not recommending in any way or form other than educating the public about it.
We bought the stock maybe in the early 2000 at Rs 300-crore market cap. It is Rs 1,30,000-crore mcap right now. The dividend itself compounded at some 18-20% something silly. So, they have delivered some superior returns and they never diluted the equity, that is the most important thing I find. They have never diluted with equity in the 30 years they have been listed, they have never diluted with equity, which Indian companies can you say have not done that, even Infosys diluted with equity multiple times. So, an extraordinary business run extraordinarily well. I think some of the criticism has been misplaced.
People who criticised them, loved them altogether without trying to do what a stock picker should do or a good value investor, that is judge each individual company on its merit. I think they are paying the price for that.
Why do you think these things happen? I mean if the market cap was so cheap, if it was a government backed business, dividend yield was so strong, the same thing happened to let us say PFC-REC. Why do markets ignore them? It is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of what is called herd mentality. Sometime in the mid-2000, the mantra became very popular in the stock market, quality at any price. We want good capital allocation. There is a very well-known author I met recently called Pulak Prasad and I respect him for he has done a fabulous job…
The book is fantastic actually. Yes, book is fantastic – What I learned from Darwin. He said I will never invest in the public sector but then he was honest to say that I don’t want to invest in a MNC also because both are very poor capital allocators.
Even conglomerates. He said I have never bought Tata or Birlas. So, I appreciate that at least he had the intellectual honesty to say that I do not want to go to a bad capital allocator. MNCs will also not do it in your best interest. I really appreciate that. But most people just want to throw the baby out of the bathwater because we made a lot of money in the first round of the PSU divestment. So, we were familiar with these companies.
We understood valuations out there and there was a period we did not make any money from them. But again it has come back. So, the market has to have the cyclicality and up and down trajectory that goes through. I think people who in 2000 said only invest in tech in India or people who said I only invest in high-quality business, pay the price. The market is not a place for the arrogant. It is a place for the humble.
In markets mean reversion is the biggest truism they always say that. Excesses always get created on the upside, on the downside. Where do you think markets are mispricing growth on the upside, that they are pricing a cherry consensus and where do you think they are still ignoring the potential of the business or the value of the company? It is a very difficult question. I do not know all that because I am a stock picker. I try to look bottom. Having said that, would I want to remain fully invested? Corrections have started, maybe it is coming, maybe it is right there. I think yes, I do not see any signs that I normally would see in a top. We do see some size in the reckless capital expansion, the QIPs, the response to public issues, something out there but for the first time, we are also getting three crore new investors coming in.
Every morning the market opens and Rs 1,500 crore is ready waiting to be invested. So, that is a sea chain that is happening. Some of the tops that we see in the market in terms of over leveraged companies or too much debt or too shaky corporate earnings; I do not see that yet. So, I am willing to tell you that what we are witnessing now is volatility and that is the nature of the market.
Charlie Munger recently passed away. He was asked the same question. He said in his lifetime of 40-50 years of being with Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway corrected three times of 50% each because he said that is the nature of the market. We cannot deal with it. You are not going to make money in life, okay. Risk is what I said is the chance that I can permanently lose capital, that I buy a business that goes bust. There have been a lot of businesses that went bust in India also, in the 2000 the tech boom I can rattle off names.
So, you want to avoid that kind of situation for any time in the portfolio and that can happen even in a good market that stocks can actually go bust. So, we do not want to get into that. A lot of people do option trading which is a zero-sum game. You probably want to scale down on that because it might be easy money but when you lose, you can lose almost the entire fortune in that, and I would be very careful of that.
But there are very good high quality businesses in India whether it was the public sector stocks, that BPO businesses, the IMEC corridors that we are talking about which will generate returns and do well for the customers over many-many years to come and if you are young in India and you are looking in the next 30 years, you need to invest.
Someone asked me what is the best time to invest in India, I told him in my opinion the best time to invest was July 24th, 1991, which is the day Manmohan Singh gave the budget, the index of 1400, the Sensex I believe was around 1400 odd there and that day the cards were open. He knew that India was going to change and go to a better place and subsequent events have proved it completely right. The next best time to invest is today. I mean if you have not invested in India, you gotta start doing it now.
I mean when they are going to do it and look at it for a period of 5-10-20-year period, do not look at it from the next five days which as I said could be extremely volatile and you could lose a lot of money out there. But if you keep the faith, buy high quality business with good cash flows, you are going to come out ahead in this business.
I will sound very repetitive with this one but it is important that we just get your views again. If you weigh prices and risk and the market dynamics, the sliver of the market may be expensive which always is the case but by and large, if you do a health checkup, the diagnosis of the market, you do not think there is a bubble or there is a mania in the market, one should remain fully invested. Absolutely not.
I am asking it point blank. Yes, I mean the point blank and I know I can be wrong with these kinds of things. You know markets live forward but understood backwards, so you do that. But all my predisposition tells me to remain invested, do not get scared by the volatility and I have not been for 30 years, I have always remained almost fully invested in Indian markets, so I do not get scared with the volatility. The best is yet to come.
Maybe India cannot double in three years, maybe it can double in four years’ time, but it is still the best place for a young Indian to be. I am not a young Indian anymore, I am reaching senior citizen level, but for a young Indian, if you are 30-35 years starting out, where are you going to put the money? I mean you cannot put it in gold or cryptocurrency. It is a dud’s game to do, it is the mugs game in my opinion to do it. You need to put in equity which generates some returns for you, gives you some dividend and allows you to build your wealth, just like my generation built the wealth.
As I told you in 1991 when we started the index was 1500. It is closer to 75,000 now. Look at the journey that has taken place. You made 30-40x on the index, imagine if you pick stocks how well you must have done during that period. So, I think given the sweet spot that India is in terms of its democracy, in terms of its demographics, in terms of digitisation that is helping and the growing middle class in India. I mean 500 million people will be in the Indian middle class by 2030. That is an extraordinary development taking place and we are going to witness what a lot of economists call a J curve once India's economy, per capita goes over $2,500-3,000. In that there will be a wide dispersion with people earning $10,000-15,000, the average is 3000, but a lot of people are above that number and that is going to power growth for a number of years to come.
Demographically as you know we are the best positioned country in the world. China's population is projected to grow over the next 30-50 years from 1.4 billion to 800 million. That is the kind of demographic disaster Korea, Japan, Italy and China are facing. India’s population is still growing and still young, so the next 20-30 years we do not have a problem.
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Clicked the link for you from that other anon 👍🏾
It highlighted how in the US at least, the number of people who call themselves Christians on these polls are falling faster. Active church membership has fallen below 50% for the first time. By 2070, of this trend keeps up, the Christian majority will disappear.
It’s interesting to read because as someone who grew up Christian many people who call themselves Christian and go to church aren’t really Christian, I believe real number of people who are Christ-like right now is very small. USAmerican Christians often have their priorities set to be more about their ego and nationalism than actually follow Christ’s word. Right now, when Christians make up about 65% of the country already, many are outspoken about how Jesus is too liberal and his message is too weak. They want some overly muscular tattooed warlord Jesus who loves guns, hates socialism and stands for nationalism. When at least in my mind he was a brown Palestinian man who loves to laugh, enjoy the beauty of gods creations, and loved to share the word of God. He didn’t ignore or condemned anyone regardless of their background or profession, because Gods word is for everyone to hear. He is pure and comfort. He wouldn’t separate women from the group for being women, and he wouldn’t ignore children. He gave his word and it was up for the people to decide to follow because God have us free will and wants us to follow him willingly, not under threat of violence.
Anyway, yeah, I hope more americans study more about the history of the world back then, I hope more people maybe learn the languages and understand the Bible instead of using it to be hateful. Then the numbers of christians in these polls would be better reflected
Also happy Easter 🙌🏾
For context, that anon was a Zionist hater/troll that was pissy at me for calling out genocide.
So in a typical Zionist fashion she tried to used those articles to mock Christianity. She really thought she did something by popping up those articles but she only exposed how slow she is because it's a well documented fact that Christianity is losing influence in the western world, while it's growing in developing countries, such as Africa and Asia..
It's very embarrassing to see people like her think the USA is a relevant compass to grasp the dynamic of the Church. Most Christians on this planet aren't Americans, let alone White or Westerner. This anon stunt screams typical yankee main character syndrome.
I always said that USAmericans Christian were the most degenerate flock of Christians and that we global Christians didn't claim them. Just today I crossed sword with Christians on TikTok about OSAS, and the lot of them didn't even know about the story or Ananias and Saphira. They either thought it was the old testament, when it's in the new one (Ananias ans Saphira were Christian converts who lived in a Christian commune administered by Peter (see Acts 5:1-11) or that I was making this story up🤦🏾♀️ Many American Christian are absolutely uneducated about the Bible. They never read it back to back. They are just too lazy to do so and let their (most likely corrupted) pastor spoonfed them with cherry picked passage.
I'm not saying you have to remember the entire bibles, but reading it's entire content will greatly help you having ringing alarms whenever someone says stuff that has absolutely no place in that book. For example, there was a post floating around radblr mocking Christianity and quoting a book comparing women to dogs. And as someone who read the Bible back to back, I clocked that BS immediately bc I knew for a fact that 1) women were NEVER compared to dogs in the Bible 2) the only comparison that's made in the Bible between dogs and humans is in Matthew 15:26 in the mouth of Jesus who's speaking parabolically about Jews vs Gentiles [earning themselves a seat at the feast] - and btw Jesus used the word kunarion which means puppy/little (family) dog and not dog in a regular/lowkey derogatory sense that's rather translated from keleb. You'll also note that the kunarion dog is exclusively used in that scene of Jesus parabolically replying to Samaritan woman and not any other Bible passage that rather featured the keleb dog that has a derogatory nuance into it (unlike kunarion has an affectionate one which is why that word only came from the mouth of Jesus). Sorry for the MASSIVE tangent.
Anyway, it turns out that book was apocrypha (those dumb radfem though Ecclesiastes (in the Bible) and Ecclesiasticus (apocrypha) were the same book...🤦🏾♀️) so it was normal I had no recollection of reading in the Bible comparison women to dogs....
Thank you for your commitment by reading these articles though 🫡 i legit felt like it was laced with some malware crap lol And happy (belated) Easter to you too. I'm really showing how slow I am at replying asks now 😅
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Clarification Provided on FEI’s Non-Rights Holder Rules for Media and Content
Yasmin Ingham with Banzai du Loir compete at FEI World Championships for Eventing in 2022. Photo by Shelby Allen.
The buzz was high on social media this week as the FEI’s Non-Rights Holders’ Guidelines for Publishing on Social Media at FEI Named Events were circulated, raising the ire of sport fans and stakeholders at the implications of the rules. “Censorship” and “welfare” were two key trends identified within the various conversations sparked around these rules, and in response the FEI has published a clarifying document to add additional context to these rules.
I’ve done my best to break down these NRH Guidelines, as well as the FEI’s clarification of the policy, below. What I have written in the final section of this article is reflective of my personal experience and opinion as a member of the equestrian media for over a decade.
What is a Non-Rights Holder?
According to the policy, the FEI Non-Rights Holder category includes Athletes, Athlete Support Personnel, Athlete Entourage (e.g. grooms, agents etc.), Horse Owners, National Federations, Officials and Accredited Media, including broadcasters.
A Rights-Holder in this instance refers to a platform that has been designated as the official broadcast platform of the event. This would apply to platforms such as FEI TV, Clip My Horse TV, Horse & Country etc.
Gaspard Maskud and Zaragoza. Photo by Tilly Berendt.
What is considered Field of Play?
The Field of Play includes the main arena, warm-up area, kiss & cry, leaders’ lounge and entrance/exit area, as well as the cross-country course in Eventing and the marathon course in Driving.
What is considered an FEI-Named event?
This a select number of events, which the FEI owns the broadcast rights to:
– Longines League of Nations™
– Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ – Western European League and North American League
– FEI Dressage World Cup™ – Western European League
– FEI Driving World Cup™
– FEI Vaulting World Cup™ Final
– FEI Eventing Nations Cup™
– FEI Championships for Seniors (European Championships, World Championships)
If I’m a spectator at an FEI-Named event, what can I and can’t I do?
“If attending an FEI Named Event (i.e. FEI World Cup round), no, the same rules apply to anyone who has not secured the rights. If at a non FEI-Named event, it will depend on agreements in place between the Organisers and their Rights Holders. If you purchased a ticket for the event, there will likely be Terms & Conditions on the ticket or during the ticket purchase process that details your rights.”
Tamie Smith and Mai Baum at Kentucky in 2023. Photo by Tilly Berendt.
What about events like Kentucky or Badminton? Do these rules apply?
Generally speaking, each individual event will have its own media policy. Field of Play footage is generally prohibited for members of the media, but spectators have historically been non-enforced when it comes to these policies.
Why did the FEI make these rules?
“There have been guidelines in place and publicly available on the FEI website for around 5 years explaining what is permitted for Non-Rights Holders at FEI-Named Events. The FEI’s experience with the previous guidelines was that they were not achieving their purpose; stakeholders seemed confused as to what they could and could not do leading to multiple cases of NRHs publishing FOP content from FEI-Named Events on social media and/or commercialising such content.
Following a review, it was decided to refine and clarify the previous guidelines so that each relevant stakeholder group could have a clear understanding of what is and is not permitted to publish
The main change is in relation to previous references to non-rights holding media being able to post some short clips of the field of play to their Instagram channels, which have now been removed to be in line with the contractual agreements.
This restriction, while it has created some controversy, is standard industry practice in sports, and you will find similar regulations apply to many other sporting events.”
Doug Payne and Vandiver. Photo by Shannon Brinkman Photography.
Are these rules intended to be censorship?
“Absolutely not. These guidelines are in no-way an attempt to censor anyone or prohibit transparency at events; they are in place to ensure the rights of Rights Holding Broadcasters at FEI-Named-Events are fully respected. For complete transparency, the events are streamed live and in their entirety on FEI TV and/or the FEI YouTube channel, and are also available to watch afterwards.
If someone sees behavior they have a concern about while on-site at any FEI Event, including the FEI Named Events, there is no issue with the person filming the behavior in question. We strongly encourage anyone who has observed concerning behaviour to report it by sharing the footage directly with the FEI for follow up.”
Huadong Sun and Lady Chin V’T Moerven Z compete in the Tokyo Olympics (2021). Photo by Shannon Brinkman Photography.
What this means for the future
It remains evident that video content is growing in popularity, with many riders and events choosing to move to the TikTok video and Instagram Reel format for sharing their updates from competition and training at home. As a member of the accredited media at both FEI and USEF-sanctioned events, the rules of play have been admittedly unclear and limiting in terms of video capture.
For example, the capturing of Field of Play footage is not allowed at major events such as the Kentucky Three-Day Event and the Maryland 5 Star. EN has worked with the media liasions of these events to ensure that capturing footage for things such as Instagram Reels is acceptable, but I would nonetheless implore the FEI and individual federations such as USEF to enact a more comprehensive media policy that factors in the evolution of content creation. While it’s clear and understandable that a broadcast host (i.e. FEI TV, ClipMyHorse TV, USEF Network, or Horse & Country) should retain all rights to full rounds and Field of Play footage, there still exists a “gray area” in which short-form video should have a place.
While these NRH Guidelines are in place for FEI-named events only at this time, should this evolve into enforcement at all FEI-sanctioned events, it would create a wider issue of enforcement and identification of acceptability. I believe a standard content policy should be created in tandem with these NRH Guidelines so that content creators and official photographers can have their own niche as they continue to play their vital role of promoting the sport and raising its visibility and consumer reach.
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Chapter 8 Reflection
According to N. Gregory Mankiw, author of our textbook, “Brief Principals of Macroeconomics”, when the federal government is running at a deficit, or the amount of national debt exceeds the amount of revenues received, this effects the supply of loanable funds negatively. That is to say, the more indebted the country, the less money there is to lend out. I tried to find some kind of number somewhere that would give me the current total of available loanable funds within the US, but all I got was ads. Is this a readily available figure? All that I can assume, based on the last year of inflation and rising interest rates, is that maybe there were too many available loanable funds. Due to many factors (in part, ex-presidents trying to buy votes) our current inflationary economy must have been caused by too much money in the system. This is why the Fed have been steadily raising interest rates over the last year. Last March, they raised interest rates from nearly 0% to .25%-.5%. This may not seem like a huge move, but let say you just bought a million dollar house expecting to pay little to no interest on it. With an interest rate now at just .25%, you’ve incurred $250,000 in interest payments alone. Over the course of a year, your monthly payments have just increased by almost $21,000. I don’t know that many people with that much extra money to budget into each month. A year later, and interest rates are now between 4.5%-4.75%. Raising interest rates is the Fed’s number one tool to try to deflate inflation, as it sucks excess capital out of the system. In the 1980s, in order to combat a particularly stubborn bout of inflation, interest rates reached nearly 20%:
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/federal-reserve/history-of-federal-funds-rate/
Throughout my lifetime, interest rates have mostly only trended downwards. This seems to have encouraged more spending than saving, but I could be totally wrong here. It feels to me like rates are going to have to rise even further over the next year because it seems like there is still some excess capital being thrown around at speculative assets (namely, cryptocurrencies). This article came out last June, but it still haunts me today:
https://today.duke.edu/2022/06/don%E2%80%99t-expect-gas-food-or-housing-prices-drop-soon-experts-say
If we think about the supply and demand of/for loanable funds, there seems to be a higher demand than supply right now. By raising interest rates, hopefully this will also encourage both private and public saving, thereby increasing the amount of loanable funds over the next several years or decades. Although, I’m not sure how easy it will be to save money in such a highly indebted country. In 2022, the national debt was about 122% larger than the national GDP:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/269960/national-debt-in-the-us-in-relation-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp/
If we are indeed heading into a recession, during which expected return on investments will be lower, this will only encourage further saving (hopefully). If, by some unforeseen circumstance, we are heading into a time of booming economic prosperity, then return on investment will be anticipated to be greater and so lenders will be happy to lend and borrowers happy to borrow. Unfortunately, it seems like we’ve left the days of optimistic speculation behind. Again, in my life time, we have primarily experienced falling interest rates, encouraging borrowers to borrow and lenders to lend, leading to an economy that, on paper and to my eyes, doesn’t look very different from the excessive times of the 80s (shoulder pads out to HERE). In my short, bless-ed life I have seen countless high-end cupcake bistros, cookie parlors, endless apps promising to change your life, excessively content loaded streaming platforms, tech start-ups hell-bent on changing the world, kids earning six-figure incomes for posting about absolutely nothing on social media, and- the cherry on top- the rise and fall of cryptocurrency. I think we are just now seeing the train of excess pull out of the station and that we may be in for a rude awakening once the last ultra chic pet-salon-five-star-hotel-and-all-organic-doggie-restaurant close its doors for good. As for me, I will continue to not have very much money and plan on continuing to not spend it.
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10 Legit Ways to Build Passive Income Online
Whether you are a student looking to make some extra cash, a working professional wanting to build a side hustle, or a corporate escapee and whosoever who is starting to build an online business need to have some cash inflow for the further smooth flow of your business.
There are many sites out there saying make money like $100 a day with surveys, with google sites, etc. Of course, they may make you money for a certain period of time but are not long-term and passive.
You always need to look out for ways to make money that are passive. You need to earn money every month and double it. Here are my top creative ideas to make money online. These real methods have worked in past and will work now and then too.
Freelancing
You would have heard a lot of this from others. But yes, this is the first best way to earn some cash before starting out your business. It will help to get some extra money into your pocket as well as fund a little for your software if you are starting out. You can start freelancing with no investment upfront. It's FREE. You can make money online freelancing.
Don’t worry if you think you don’t have any skills. You can learn small skills by taking a free trial in skillshare. There are tons of gigs people are looking for to get their work done and with the right process, you can make money as a freelancer.
By the year 2027, freelancers are projected to make up the majority of the workforce in the United States, with 50.9% of the working population. In fact, at the current growth rate, it’s estimated that 67.6 million Americans will be freelancing by the end of 2021. That’s 42% of the American workforce! (Website planet).
What are you waiting for? Search in-demand gigs on google keywords and search trends. And yes, patience is the key. You need to wait a few weeks while you get your first gig. Start promoting your services on social media and find your spot.
Starting a Blog
As of 2021, there are more than 570 million blogs on the internet, based on activities reported by WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Wix, Squarespace, and Medium (and this number is constantly growing) (firstsiteguide).
Now do not get overwhelmed, the one thing is though blogs are growing rapidly, and so are people reading blogs. Of course, blogs are saturated, but when you niche down and find your audience then you can achieve your space in this sea of bloggers.
Starting a blog, yesterday, today, tomorrow, is possible as long as you are using proper rules, like optimizing your SEO, giving unique content to your readers, and more. But, the best day to start blogging for your profit is today and now.
Let us look at some stats on why you should start your blog today
61% of online shoppers in the US say they made a purchase after getting a recommendation from a blog post
Companies that blog actively have 126% better lead growth
80% of bloggers say that they see positive business results from their blogging efforts
Blogs affect customers’ buying decisions as 47% of them go through 3 to 5 blog posts before the buying process (Firstsiteguide)
Give me a better reason why you should not start a blog after these mind-blowing facts.
You can start a niche blog, review blog, cooking blog, gaming blog, parenting blog, and more. Just write what you know or keep an eye on your competitors and outperform them. And blogging is the best for your long-term passive income.
Starting a YouTube channel
Now as we’ve known how YouTube has evolved to be like a video search engine, the platform has grown considerably and is been growing millions of YouTubers.
Again, let’s talk about some statistics about YouTube. YouTube has 2.3 billion users worldwide.
79 percent of Internet users have their own YouTube account.
YouTube viewers watch over a billion hours of video on the platform every day and generate billions of views. (YouTube, 2021)
YouTube is localized in more than 100 countries and is available in 80 languages. (YouTube, 2021)
Every day people watch one billion hours of video on YouTube (source-Oberlo)
Now, the real question is how to make money out of YouTube? Well, there is enough space for you to sink in. Are you a coach, fitness enthusiastic, a person with good communication, or even just an individual with no skills at all? You can make videos, monetize your YouTube account, and earn from AdSense and affiliate marketing.
Umm! Some people may say that YouTube is not for me. I don’t know how to make and produce videos. I don’t have any skills. Well, I have a solution for that. You can make money from YouTube absolutely by not showing your face at all.
Here are some of the niches you can make videos y not showing your face.
If u do not want to record videos, you can head up to free stock videos or images and give a voice-over and start making content.
If you feel shy to start, you will never get ahead. So, the one thing I want to tell to everyone who is shy to make videos and for my younger self, stop doubting yourself. Just do it, don’t care about criticism, success will follow you
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is when a person earns a commission for referring a product to others. For eg: You register yourself as an affiliate to promote certain products, when the person you promote the product click on your unique affiliate link and purchases through your link you earn a commission. A commission can range for each and every product.
And the affiliate marketing model is the best, safe model for beginners. You can drive traffic for free and for paid as well. You can be an affiliate marketer if you need a passive income, you don’t need to have any other customer support, you can work from home at your own comfort.
Now, how to register as an affiliate. First, think of what do you like the most. What products do you love using? Type the name in google and see whether there is an affiliate program or just see other affiliate programs in your niche. Choose the one you love so that you don’t feel tired and exhausted in the long run.
There are many other sites where you can choose your products from. You can take products from Click bank, Digistore24, Share a Sale, Jvzoo, and similar other platforms.
Here are the best affiliate platforms for you to choose from
How do you want to promote is the next question?
Well, you can create landing pages in click funnels, kartra, or builderall and promote them through ads. If you are on your budget, you could start a blog and promote it. You can write blogs for free on medium.com. It is a cost-effective way to sell your products. You can create a YouTube channel, talk about how you love using those products, and promote them, you could even use Pinterest to promote your blogs and landing pages.
We all know that Pinterest is a visual search engine and no doubt you can get quite a good sale from affiliate marketing in Pinterest
Once you get your first sale and testimonials you can start your Instagram page and build trust with others to promote the products and scale your business.
Instagram Influencer
Do you love making TikTok videos, always want to be active on social media? Then here is your chance to start earning being an Instagram influencer.
You can start by creating content about the topic you want to talk about the most. If creating a YouTube channel feels a bit challenging, grow your audience and monetize them through Instagram. Feel free to talk about what you feel.
Collect your follower's email IDs. Once you become consistent with the audience and platform, the content you are generating makes a digital course or something you think to monetize your people. Giveaway a lot of freebies, checklists, and many other things to lead your audience to the product you are offering. Build trust with them and try to use all of Instagram's available channels. Use carousals, reels, IGTV, go live to show behind the scenes of your work, and more!.
Staying consistent is the key to grow your audience on Instagram.
Starting a T-Shirt Business
Whether you’re an artist, writer, designer, or entrepreneur, physical products can be the perfect canvas for monetizing your creativity. Yes, you heard that right. You can start your own merch for free. Starting an online T-shirt business is booming in this era an why don’t you be one of them. You do not need to hold any inventory, just design your t-shirt online and publish it.
Let me make it clear. So what is print on demand? How to start your free t-shirt business
Print on demand is a process where you work with a supplier to customize white-label products (like baseball hats or tote bags) with your own designs to sell them on a per-order basis under your own brand.
That means you don’t pay for the product until after you’ve actually sold it, so there’s no need to buy in bulk or hold any inventory yourself.
Plus, with print-on-demand services, everything after the sale, from printing to shipping, is handled by your supplier. Once you’ve set everything up, it takes only a few clicks to fulfill an order once you’ve made a sale.
You can use print-on-demand services to:
Test a business idea or new product line for an existing business without the risks that come with buying inventory.
Monetize an audience you’ve built. Printing on demand is a great option if you’re a YouTuber, cartoonist, or social media influencer who wants to spend your time creating content instead of fulfilling orders.
Create original products for a niche of customers. For example, apparel for people who are passionate about gaming.
Easily print one-off items—t-shirts, books, shoes, bags, wall art, phone cases, clocks, laptop skins, mugs, and so much more. You can send these as gifts or keep them for yourself and your team (source-Shopify)
You can get started with print on demand for almost free with teespring, redbubble, printful . Or you can start your online store on Shopify and sell them as a custom branding.
Do not worry if you are not a pro in graphic designing. You can design your t-shirt on canva and paste the design on your t-shirt too. This is a legitimate and easy business for beginners online. You can promote your merch by using SEO, keywords, and various social platforms.
Let's take a look at the print on demand statistics:
This statistic depicts the market value of the custom t-shirt printing market worldwide from 2016 to 2025. In 2016, the global custom t-shirt printing market was valued at 1.16 billion U.S. dollars, and was forecast to reach a value of 3.1 billion U.S. dollars by 2025.
This is insane amount the industry is making from print-on-demand only.
COVID-19 impact Fabric face mask accounted for 11.14% of all goods sold through Printify in September 2020. (Printify)
A 2020 survey revealed that about 96% of millennials and Gen Z have concerns about how the ongoing pandemic will impact the economy. (BigCommerce)
With more people staying at home and focusing on home improvement projects, the Home & Living category is on the rise, with the first 6 months of 2020 seeing a 243.77% growth. Both canvas gallery wraps (2.19%) and premium vertical posters (1.35%) are in TOP15 products sold by Printify merchants. (Printify)
According to Merkle’s report in 2020, roughly 79% of consumers plan to be more conservative with how much they will spend shopping online during the pandemic. (Merkle)
In the first 6 months of 2020, Printify monthly active users have grown by 69%, with registrations up 39%. (Printify)
62% of sellers in the United Kingdom changed their marketing plan because of the pandemic. Moreover, only 14 percent of businesses have decided to stick with their original marketing strategy for 2020. (Statista) ( All sources- Printify) Read more at: https://printify.com/ecommerce-statistics/ And these are just stats alone. Don’t wait now. Start your print-on-demand business right away.
Online Tutoring
Again, online tutoring is gaining massive demand in this digital age. During the pandemic the online tutoring business was a boom and it will be more in the coming years. Just teach people what you know. There are many people in this world who want to learn and are ready to pay for it.
Whether you know to speak English, or drawing, graphic designing, marketing, business, or anything that matters, turn your own skill into a business
You can tutor in paid platforms like cambly, Oakary, iTutor, or just start teaching in YouTube and create tour own course and sell it. You can create courses and teach in udemy too. People all over the world are searching to learn skills and may be you can teach them what you know and monetize your skills.
Amazon KDP [ Selling E-books and low content books ]
As I told you print on demand is a big thing and so does amazon KDP is too. What is KDP? Amazon KDP is nothing but kindle direct publishing. KDP allows you to self-publish eBooks and paperbacks for free. Amazon gives you direct access to your book on Amazon and allows you to create a product detail page for your book. It also gives you the option to expand your book’s availability on a global scale, making it more accessible for readers around the world. Publishing with KDP gives you full rights to your book, which is not something a traditional publishing house typically allows.
What types of content can I publish through KDP?
KDP allows you to publish eBooks (Kindle) and paperback books. However, KDP does not allow the creation of magazines, periodicals, or spiral-bound books.
Content types typically published using KDP include but are not limited to the following:
Novels
Book Series
Children’s Books
Comics
Cookbooks
Journals
Poetry
Textbooks (source: amazon.com)
Selling Photography
Are you a photographer? Are you making enough money? If no then this will help you , if yes you are gonna make an extra dime.
You can sell your beautiful photos on Getty Images, Pexels, Shutterstock, Adobe Stock and many more sites and earn money whenever your image is downloaded. If it is a subscription-based site then your earnings will be more. You can post your beautiful images on Instagram and become famous. Ultimately you can collaborate with various brands for their product photography.
If your camera is lying there near you, take it and start clicking pictures and sell your photos online.
Selling on Etsy
Etsy is an online market place that works as an intermediary between customers and artists, crafters of handmade items or collectors of vintage products. The company engages in customer to customer (C2C) or peer to peer (P2P) e-commerce in which both the seller and the buyer are private individuals or micro-businesses. This is in contrast to other forms of internet commerce such as B2C or B2B (source: Statista).
Let's head to our facts about how profitable it is to sell on Etsy
Etsy had over 2.5 million sellers at the end of 2019, and we can only expect that this number has increased.
Etsy sellers live all over the world, in 234 countries
62% of Etsy sellers are based in the US.
California is home to the most Etsy sellers with 14% of US-based Etsy shops. (credits: veeqo)
Etsy is a huge commerce platform, with an especially strong US presence. Plus, the fact that most sellers are multi-channel retailers—and also selling their products on marketplaces like Amazon and Shopify sites—suggests that the platform isn’t just for amateur makers. It’s for eCommerce businesses.
So if you’re already selling handmade or vintage products on another platform, it’s worth it to expand and start selling on Etsy.
If you’re starting a business, it’s important to run the numbers before setting up shop—or at least quitting your day job. Etsy does have associated costs, though it’s worth noting that the listing and transaction fees are lower than other platforms, like Amazon and eBay. (cre: veeqo)
So, if you can start your print on demand you can sell it on Etsy too. If you are good at handicrafts Etsy is the best place to promote.
Conclusion
So here are the top 10 ways where in you can make legitimate money online. You can try all these methods one by one. Well, everyone will look for quick methods to make money online, but those won’t suffice for long run.
If you should build a strong business online you need to stay consistent no matter what. Staying consistent will help audience grow along with you on your journey to make money online. For beginners starting out these methods will help you in starting out to make a dime or two.
One thing I need to make particular is you will not see results instantly. You need to try and try, keep on trying. Whether it is 2 weeks, 1 month or 3 months, you should not stop. Keep up that grind and let’s start the digital lifestyle. Start by making money online fore free with these methods and start investing in ads and make the business run for you in long run.
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Etsy Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Report - Sales Down a Bit, But Still Relatively Strong
As ecommerce continues to slide and the world fears a recession, Etsy’s second quarter results for 2022 actually beat many projections and met their own. Can this continue?
This post covers the highlights of the financial call that sellers might be interested in, with my commentary in square brackets. Have comments? Please leave them below, email me through my website, or contact me on Twitter.
The relevant materials, for those who want to take a closer look:
The press release
Transcript of the earnings call
Slides from the presentation
Video of the call; click on “Webcast”
My summary of the first quarter 2021 for comparison
The basic numbers (covering April to June 2022, compared to the same period in 2021):
Sales on Etsy were $2.6 billion, down 6%
Total sales for all 4 marketplaces (Etsy, Reverb, Depop, Elo7) were $3 billion, down 0.4% (note that Etsy did not own Depop and Elo7 one year ago)
Revenue (including all 4 sites) was up 10.6% to $585 million; seller service revenue was up 9.1% to $145.5 million, while marketplace revenue was up 11.1% to 439.5 million. This improvement was partly due to the Etsy transaction fee increase, and also Etsy Ads.
Income was $73.1 million, down 25.6%, which Etsy attributed to increasing staff 70% in a year, including Depop and Elo7 hires
Active sellers on Etsy alone are now 5.3 million, up only 100,000 (2%) YOY and down from last quarter’s 5.5 million, while there are now 88.1 million active buyers on Etsy, down from just over 90 million a year ago [note that “active” means one charge or transaction in the past 12 months; some “active” shops currently have nothing for sale]
Sales on mobile are now at 66%, up from 63% last year, with the mobile app now contributing more sales than desktop (since the first quarter).
Sales with at least one non-US party are 44% of the total, up from 41% YOY
Why Did Sales Drop?
In short, economic and other trends. CEO Josh Silverman noted that some (but not all) of the total drop on Etsy was due to currency fluctuations; sales for all 4 marketplaces would have been up 2.6% instead of down 0.4% had currency rates not changed.
Not only did active buyers drop, but they also spent slightly less (40 cents per buyer less) than they did previously (see slide 25). Some categories such as Home and Living are down while others such as Travel, Weddings and Paper & Party Supplies are up (slide 24). Etsy estimates that 75% of the sales drop is from much lower sales in both Home & Living and Craft Supplies, which made a lot of money during the pandemic.
In the US, people are now about as mobile as they were in 2019, meaning they aren’t at home as much to shop online.
Etsy Search
Slide 6 (shown above) is from the search portion of the presentation. Silverman describes search as now being run by multiple search engines, including the old text- based exact match form of relevancy, X-Walk (using the way buyers interreact with listings/shops to turn up the right results), and “Neural IR” (”do we understand what you are looking for even if you do not know how to describe it?”). [While this might surprise some sellers, Google also combines many different algorithms to come up with one set of search results.]
Silverman considers the success of the “add to cart” button on search pages to be “...a testament to the fact that we’ve improved the quality of search and the information provided on the search result page, enough that some people are ready to buy without even needing to visit the seller’s listing page.”
The press release reports that XWalk is now used in all countries, not the just the US, which is something they promised previously.
Advertising, Promotions and Nudges
Etsy Ads seller budgets are up 80% this year, continuing this growth trend. Revenue from ads has grown twice as much as total sales have in the past 5 years. Recently, this is due to better relevance and more clicks, as well as adding more ad slots throughout the site, including the home page.
Brand marketing spend was up 4%, while the overall marketing budget was down 2% due to a small drop in performance marketing. “Our performance marketing spend declined year-over-year driven by our improving model and data feed efficiencies combined with softer consumer demand and weaker Google search trends for our related terms.” Offsite ads are now shown in Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, and Mexico.
"[w]e prompted signed-out browsers to download the Etsy App, leading to a 53% increase in downloads" YOY. [If your listings are not optimized for the app, you are likely falling behind.]
Depop, Reverb & Elo7
All three of the other marketplaces have struggled in the current economy, and have decreased Etsy’s net income. They still feel that Depop and Elo7 were good acquisitions for Etsy in the long term.
The new CEO of Depop, Kruti Patel Goyal, was previously Chief Product Officer of Etsy and will push some of the same things there.
Reverb has upgraded search and also created landing pages for outside search engines. [Maybe similar to Market pages on Etsy?]
Elo7 has introduced new shipping carriers.
Miscellaneous
The pandemic buyer cohort is more valuable than buyers acquired previously.
Etsy will be advertising the buyer purchase protection changes more as we get closer to the holiday season.
While other ecommerce and retail companies are laying people off, Etsy did not, but did slow hiring somewhat in the second quarter.
Etsy sees most of its future growth coming from outside of the US and the UK.
Habitual buyers made 46% of the orders this quarter, with strong improvement in Germany and Australia.
"we began proactively reviewing listings for potential handmade violations - in fact, in the second quarter we removed approximately 50% more listings than in all of 2021" [the call gave no further clarification on this statement, which comes from the press release]
Etsy is sitting on $1.1 billion in cash.
My Thoughts
This was probably the most boring call I have followed; no big announcements, and no grand plans. There was a palpable relief that numbers weren't as bad as they could have been, so although sales being down was nothing to celebrate, they are actually pretty proud of the performance. They are also still worried about what the third quarter will look like, but did not give us any figures on July.
A lot of retail and ecommerce companies are panicking; Etsy is not. The next 6 to 12 months will likely show us whether or not they are being realistic about the future.
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