Here’s the skinny: social media is dying and the new internet struggles to be born. Someday someone might make a site that’s worth joining again, but you probably won’t find me there on account of I’m no longer in my early 20s and completely lack the spirit to join another social media platform. I retreat with coziness and splendor to the land of email: a beautiful world of bits and bytes that’s old enough to have birthed me.
I am currently making this newsletter because Cohost is going offline, but to be perfectly honest I’ve found myself tiring of social media for a while. It’s nominally the “top of the funnel” for indie games, to borrow a marketing term, but in reality I’ve found much better luck just emailing YouTubers game keys and letting them do what they will. I’ll miss Cohost, just as I missed Twitter, just as I missed old Mastodon servers, just as I missed the halcyon days of the Spore creature browser. Remember Galactic Adventures? God that ruled.
Anyways, it's still useful and necessary to give people an easy way to keep abreast of the stuff I'm working on, and there's no sturdier way to do that than by just making a newsletter. I'm working on a website, too, but the newsletter comes first.
As thanks for joining this newsletter, check out this exclusive animation I’ve been working on for FISH FEAR ME: