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I was really hoping that Substack would do some sort of “Substack Wrapped” that would save me from trying to do this myself and look at a dreaded Number… but I think they aren’t coming to save me. Here’s last year’s, which ended at November 30, 2023.

Between December 2023 and November 30, 2023, I wrote a 135 posts. My numbers of both unpaid and paid subscribers went up:

November 2023

2332 total subscribers
160 paid subscribers (6.8% of total)

And here’s… November 30, 2024.

November 2024

5354 total subscribers
251 paid subscribers¹ (4.7% of total)

So unpaid subscriptions a little more than doubled and paid subscriptions a little less than doubled.

The most read post was:

a (very) qualified defense of "ironic misandry"

This garnered ~9.72k views. Why this one was the most read is kind of obvious: it was discourse-y. On the other hand, among subscribers, it performed about as well as everything else (around h…