The Doomstead Diner brand name has been around for a long time on the internet, so it would be quite difficult to completely scrub it from the net,  The fact I keep the YouTube channel up (since it's free) and I've begun making vids again is bringing back activity, and I added a link to the chasingthesquirrel.com to the homepage of this URL.  YouTube is now beginning to take inactive channels down, so it was important to start making new vids again for that reason also.

The obvious commercial solution is simply to register the URL again, I just don't have the money to spend on that, even though it's quite cheap to register a URL.  Once the URL is registered, we can just point it here.  If somebodies volunteer to pay for it, I'll register the URL again.

I still have 443 subscribers to the channel, and current vids are getting about 45 views.  I'm sure if I continue and we perk up the vids with other talking heads besides me, the viewership will get back to 100 PDQ.  As fascinating as I am to listen to (lol), it would be a much better show done with dialogue, as well as running a simultaneous chat function.  If we get past 100, I would do liivestreams  also.  However, so far nobody has accepted my invitation to chat, so the monologues will have to do.

It's a double edged sword though.  Getting bigger will attract the same kind of trolls it always has, and frankly debating people who are willfully ignorant isn't very productive.  If people find the Diner, that's great but I'm not going to spend any of my very limited funds on it.  Unless something seriously changes in the zeitgeist, it doesn't make a difference whether I have 44 views or 4400 views.  The only way it makes a difference is with 44M viewers, but that won't happen without some kind of external movement I have no control over.

It's obvious that on the major sites that HAVE 44M viewers, I can't even drop on a comment, much less get called for an interview.  I think the same is true for anyone who tries to get a real conversation going on those websites.  So I'm also fine just ranting for 45 people.  Jesus only had 12 Disciples.  I'm doing better than that.  :)

RE