An earnest request

honestly, if I get one paid subscriber off this post I will consider it a roaring success. That's how low my expectations are.

I had a wonderful surge of new subscribers, both paid and free, on my Substack, Nathan Rabin's Bad Ideas, over the past two months. My paid subscribers and free subscribers surged by about 30 percent in a month or two.

This probably had a lot to do with pieces I've written about Reagan, Megalopolis, and Joker 2 that proved very popular. I've quite liked getting into the business of reviewing new movies in the theater. It's been a lot of fun and has been a boon for Bad Ideas.

That was great, but it has stopped, and now I'm losing subscribers. That is less great, so I would really appreciate it if y'all could subscribe to the Bad Ideas. It's been a very long time since I've had something do even reasonably well, so I want to keep the momentum going strong.

AND very soon, I'll be running pieces from The Fractured Mirror on Bad Ideas every Tuesday and Thursday so that paid subscribers get an exclusive Joy of Positivity or Fractured Mirror blurb every day of the week, in addition to getting to vote on which new movie I will watch and write about on the weekend and getting to choose what franchise I'll write up next after I finish my Nightmare on Elm Street deep dive by writing up the original (which I've rewatched but not written up yet) and Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

All for just five dollars! Every time I get a new paid subscriber, I experience a brief but palpable moment of exhilaration and validation. That's more for me than you, but know that just by committing to five dollars a month (less than one of them fancy Starbucks coffees all the yuppies are drinking!), you can make me happy. Not permanently happy, of course, but I really do pay attention—too much attention—to these things.

It's a steal!