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[Ghostse]

Jeffrey posted his annual State of the Forums thread.

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Nothing especially interesting. Forums still gay but not quite dead. Monthly revenue keeps falling, but still plenty sufficient to sustain the site. There are about 17k active accounts (ones who have made at least one post in 2025).

There's a new admin, HopperUK: an autistic fifty-year-old British woman who is a Nintendo adult and patrols the Games forum for microaggressions.

So making about 60K in store revenue and 20K in NordVPN and Patreon. That's a lot of Goldbelly pies.

The thing I find fairly telling is 60K in store revenue for 17k users means the average user spends almost $4 a month in the store.

 

[Something Awful]

The thing I find fairly telling is 60K in store revenue for 17k users means the average user spends almost $4 a month in the store.

That's annual revenue, so $4 per year, not month. Monthly store revenue is about $4,500 (900 avatar changes).

 

[Gremperor]

Only tangentially related but Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction.

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"In 2020, a yearly Bellingcat report on its CSAM investigations revealed that four of its researchers — including Romein, who was praised for his “Fantastic research and eye for detail and precision” — collectively spent a whopping 2500 hours on the project, viewing a combined four million images in the process."

"The shocking revelation that Bellingcat relied on a convicted pedophile to handle its investigations into child sexuality exploitation has effectively been buried by legacy media outlets, which frequently cited the organization to accuse designated enemy states of everything from chemical attacks to assassinations."

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

 

[Tanner Glass]

That's annual revenue, so $4 per year, not month. Monthly store revenue is about $4,500 (900 avatar changes).

Does that also include new accounts as well?

 

[Something Awful]

Does that also include new accounts as well?

Yes. It includes everything on the store, so new account registrations, account restoration after a ban, own avatar changes, other avatar changes, username changes, platinum and archive upgrades, banner ads and smiley purchases.

 

[Ghostse]

That's annual revenue, so $4 per year, not month. Monthly store revenue is about $4,500 (900 avatar changes).

I was comparing monthly of ~5000 and 17,000 users and got my numerator/denominator flipped.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Only tangentially related but Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction.
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"In 2020, a yearly Bellingcat report on its CSAM investigations revealed that four of its researchers — including Romein, who was praised for his “Fantastic research and eye for detail and precision” — collectively spent a whopping 2500 hours on the project, viewing a combined four million images in the process."

"The shocking revelation that Bellingcat relied on a convicted pedophile to handle its investigations into child sexuality exploitation has effectively been buried by legacy media outlets, which frequently cited the organization to accuse designated enemy states of everything from chemical attacks to assassinations."

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

MODS MosesBrown knew!

 

[northstar747]

holy shit SA getting mentioned in 2025!

This will bring new blood to the site!!!

 

[Ghostse]

Only tangentially related but Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction.
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"In 2020, a yearly Bellingcat report on its CSAM investigations revealed that four of its researchers — including Romein, who was praised for his “Fantastic research and eye for detail and precision” — collectively spent a whopping 2500 hours on the project, viewing a combined four million images in the process."

"The shocking revelation that Bellingcat relied on a convicted pedophile to handle its investigations into child sexuality exploitation has effectively been buried by legacy media outlets, which frequently cited the organization to accuse designated enemy states of everything from chemical attacks to assassinations."

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

So what was his SA mod account name?

 

[Coolio55]

Only tangentially related but Ex-Bellingcat operative dies after child rape conviction.
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"In 2020, a yearly Bellingcat report on its CSAM investigations revealed that four of its researchers — including Romein, who was praised for his “Fantastic research and eye for detail and precision” — collectively spent a whopping 2500 hours on the project, viewing a combined four million images in the process."

"The shocking revelation that Bellingcat relied on a convicted pedophile to handle its investigations into child sexuality exploitation has effectively been buried by legacy media outlets, which frequently cited the organization to accuse designated enemy states of everything from chemical attacks to assassinations."

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

I assume that by "died" they actually meant "appropriated troon culture".

 

[TiggerNits]

So what was his SA mod account name?

Grover

 

[AnOminous]

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

RIP in piss, pedoglowie.

 

[Ghostse]

TLDR: They literally had a child rapist investigating child abuse, I wanted to joke about how only a goon could fail that hard but this is probably normal for journalists at this point.

I mean, to be fair, the job req asked for an "Expert in sex crimes involving children".

That's also why the contract went to a firm run by an former SA mod.

 

[Coolio55]

Goon project status:

 

[Ghostse]

Goon project status:

I'll start the wiki

 

[Bussy Catalog]

holy shit SA getting mentioned in 2025!

This will bring new blood to the site!!!

I assure you the kind of people who watch Strange Aeons (2010s tumblr kids) are not going to like SA at all.

That Whang sponsorship last year didn't make a tangible difference to new regs either because goons are utterly repellant and soul sucking to interact with

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

I'll start the wiki

I'll write the COC.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

ill be the ideas guy

 

[diroama]

I'll spin up a discord

 

[northstar747]

I'll spin up a discord

cool will it be part of the goon discord net work?