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Ben Shaprio's avatar

I read Godfree Roberts. He is here for many years. He never gets anywhere with his posts. 5 likes max. Losers! Have you grown in the last few years, Dr. P? Substack wouldn’t allow it. Views are a limited resource and are redistributed unequally.

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Justin Good's avatar

We have degenerate role models. That includes influencers.

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pigz's avatar

What is Dr. Pattberg at?

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Tupak's avatar

For how long though. Migrate over to Ghost, if you can.

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Sulaiman Achmed's avatar

I'll always side with native Germans

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Tom Tokyo's avatar

It is never about the art. It is about marketing and gaming the system.

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Soolstar's avatar

Welcome to the Substack mafia, Dr. P., congratulations! Did you really think you could set up shop and outsmart the dons?

Substack controls exactly what people see: which writers get promoted in the app, on Google, and in spam emails. It uses A.I. to fabricate engagement, but the truth is, 99% of Substack’s traffic is dead. Machine dead.

The chosen few at the top get flooded with views (artificially inflated, of course) while the rest of us drown in a spam graveyard of A.I.-generated sludge. The moment you hand over your credit card, however, Substack’s ugly reality becomes clear: it’s a subscriber racket, where every ounce of ‘popularity’ is manufactured fakery.

My advice? Get out while you can. The only ones left clinging to Substack in the end will be rappers, celebrities, and corporate magazines—the ones who thrive on spam culture.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

True, true.

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Sulaiman Achmed's avatar

There is no way this ends peacefully. Substack is deleting my comments lmao.

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Morten's avatar

The All Seeing Eye. So true. Keep it up!

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Wilhelm's avatar

Very well. You are back, but for how long? If you stand out like a Luther in the Substack Church, you will be ostracized like a Luther. You can't stay in the Substack Church. Anyways, always good luck and keep your options open! From Poland

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks! I am considering my options. Best! T

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Wlodzimierz Rydz's avatar

Long time no see

Welcome back, Doctor

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Thanks. Huge new series incoming! T

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Bugey libre's avatar

Thorsten!!

Nice to see you back!

I am pretty sure you lacked indy Korean music (Lol!!)... I will send more elaborate comments about that subject and others but meanwhile just listen to that "bird" thing with the real best voices groomed in traditional classical turned creative and free while respecting tradition. youtube provides translation in subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wIj7G-5Qc

Salut to all of you who don't smell any stench in Thorsten's writings! One love

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Fuck Substack! It's all fake. Kind of OnlyFans for "writers".

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Bugey libre's avatar

Be reassured we know you don't use botox or silicon and you big boobs articles are genuine!

One love!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

🦶🏻❤️

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Lara Clove's avatar

What took you so long? Substack is based on unequal distribution. It profits from recruited well paid writers to recruit thousands of new aspiring writers. 10,000 reads was the social token back then. Those were the early days. 99.9% subscribers got nothing from it. The reads were at best of lower quality, taken from Wiki or the internet. However, if a subscriber turns writer, she can recruit 100 new subscribers, get 5 to 10 views from that at best, and later even less. The new writers at the bottom in this pyramid scheme are now dependent and have to recruit more subscribers, with the promise of fewer and fewer views in return. As a business model, Substack is unsustainable, but highly profitable for those at the top and those who got there first.

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Lara Clove's avatar

Soon, Substack will require you to post 3 to 7 times a day, like Rurik or Bishop. 😅🇷🇺🇨🇳

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yes, I am super aware that it is a ponzi sheme. Bastards!

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Bruder Chromium's avatar

Hello, poor people!

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

In management we trust! #HumanFarm

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DocFreemason's avatar

Found this before it was deleted on Reddit. Total clusterfuck: “What they're doing to Dr. Pattberg is scandalous. His vandalized Wikipedia entry is disgusting and the worst kind of slander. Anyone who's been subjected to such hostility will never get anywhere on the supervised internet. Like a nasty wound or criminal record that follows one forever. Some celebrities like Mel Gibson or Ye may survive the blacklisting. But not some Peking PhD with a niche education. The trolls and the thought police immediately came down and reported this China scholar for hate crime. Excuse me, but all he did was publishing his complicated views about the world prison.” Amen.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yes, yes. I am banned from Reddit since 2009. Also from 4Chan. You can try, if you want.

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groddlo's avatar

I was actually wondering what happened to you. I realized recently I haven't heard of your new posts in a while.

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

Yeah, channel got scraped. More details in a later post. I blame myself and the Human Farm. All the best!

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groddlo's avatar

You mean the book, right? xD

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Ani from Singapore's avatar

whzd come back here wanting get some more beating Pattberg-san?

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Thorsten J. Pattberg, PhD's avatar

We cannot not exist (in the Human Farm). I am a small PhD in the global educational pyramid scheme of absolut world oppression. If I say anything negative about SS Substack, they cut me off my communication with you, disable my health insurance, and shit into my rice bowl. It's Eat or die. I probably die. T

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