# The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
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Publisher: Magnetic North: One Journalist's Quest to Make Sense of the Universe · published 2026-07-29 · read 2026-09-12

Original: https://sgcarney.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-that-substack-is

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## Who is named (5)

- [MAGA](https://truthscore.com/entity/3049a0bb)
- [Fox](https://truthscore.com/entity/52335644)
- [Apple News](https://truthscore.com/entity/5fb1f601)
- [Substack](https://truthscore.com/entity/7e53c1c7)
- [paywalls](https://truthscore.com/entity/b36cacf5)

## What it added

- [The author turned to Substack to help.](https://truthscore.com/claim/f5a816c7)
  > So I have turned to Substack to help.
- [Access to reliable news has evolved away from the poor due to the advent of paywalls.](https://truthscore.com/claim/7655af8f)
  > I feel that with the advent of paywalls, access to reliable news has evolved away from the group of people called poor.
- [The poor are left to unreliable but accessible sources like Fox.](https://truthscore.com/claim/2eb38b1e)
  > Leaving them to unreliable but accessible sources like Fox.
- [Health forced the author to move near family in a red state.](https://truthscore.com/claim/f98500aa)
  > When health forced me to move near family in a red state.
- [The author was very lonely until finding a semblance of tribe on Substack.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e92fe647)
  > Was very lonely until I found a semblance of tribe on Substack.
- [The author had no idea how much money some Substack writers were making.](https://truthscore.com/claim/757a8cf8)
  > I had no idea how much money some were making.
- [Substack only provides a living wage to a very small subset of its writers.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e54c5835)
  > I think it's quite clear by now that Substack only provides, and only ever will provide, a living wage to a very small subset of its writers.
- [Substack provides other benefits, such as a way to get out important information that could not otherwise be published, and a way to stay in the minds of…](https://truthscore.com/claim/9873552d)
  > It does provide other benefits though—a way to get out important information you couldn't otherwise get published, a way to stay in the minds of readers of your books, etc.
- [MAGA thrives on an illiterate poor.](https://truthscore.com/claim/07964c4e)
  > I think MAGA thrives on an illiterate poor, in this way keeping a vibrant access point to something with intelligent analysis seems important.
- [A scheme like Apple News where people pay a flat monthly rate for access to everything on Substack could be imagined.](https://truthscore.com/claim/877080ec)
  > I could imagine some sort of Apple News type scheme,, where people pay a flat monthly rate for access to everything on Substack.
- [People could pay for individual posts.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3c2cc31c)
  > Also it'd be great if people could just pay for individual posts, something I often find myself wanting to do.
- [The author is one of many seniors whose income has become tested.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1257e3bf)
  > I am one of the many seniors, a tribe whose income has become tested.

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