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Season 01, live Season 01 closes · Nov 30, 2026 Page last updated · Oct 12, 2026
Today

Open bounties, anyone can pick these up.

Bounties are how the network organizes around stories worth telling. Anyone can post a question and attach money to it. Anyone can pick it up and report it. The contributor gets paid on delivery. Strongest weekly submissions earn $20 tips on top of the bounty itself throughout Season 01.

What follows is what’s open right now. The full list lives on poidh.

Active, extended one week

Find someone who remembers. Talk to them on tape.

An older person whose memory of a place, a movement, or a moment hasn’t been recorded yet. Sit with them. Ask. Shoot. Submit. Two-minute clip minimum, no upper limit.

Submissions in: multiple Boosted on poidh Status: open
Pick it up on poidh
Bitcoin Pizza Day, May 2026

Pizza on tape. The slice tells the story.

What does a slice mean where you live? Pizza is a global object that means something different in every city. Document yours, the place, the person behind the counter, what their slice tells you about the neighborhood it’s in.

Status: run and paid out Funded in collaboration with the pizzaDAO community
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Field

From the ground, across the network.

Contributors are filing from Nigeria, Kenya and the United States. Nigeria files daily out of Lagos and Abuja. Kenya files daily out of Nairobi. The U.S. beat opens with Philly and Charlotte. Every dispatch below was shot, edited, and shipped by a named contributor, mostly on phones, mostly funded through poidh.xyz/a/wethemmedia.

Bounty board, one question, five voices, two countries

Internet & truth: has the internet made it easier, harder, or just noisier?

One bounty went up on the board. Five contributors across Nigeria and Kenya picked it up and brought it to people on the street. Five answers. One on subjective truth and comparing sources. One on scams versus debunkers. One on the double-edged sword of due diligence. Two from Nairobi on AI, sus pricing, and how to stay safe online. Commissioned via poidh.xyz/a/wethemmedia.

Nigeria. On the ground.

May 2026 · 12 dispatches shipped
Kafani, 9:39
Lagos, UNILAG, 2026

What is Ethereum? UNILAG street interviews.

Kafani hits the University of Lagos with one question: what is Ethereum? Live wallet walkthrough included.

Status: shipped
Kafani, 5:00
Lagos, Street, 2026

What do Nigerians think of America?

Kafani back on the streets. The answers don't pull punches. Racism, school shootings, fashion, and the dollar.

Status: shipped
Kaspa, 9:03
Nigeria, Campus, 2026

What made you smile today?

Kaspa on campus asking the simplest question with the deepest answers. Moms, exams, faith, friends.

Status: shipped
John Bayode
Lagos, Market, 2026

How Nigeria has changed.

John Bayode interviews a market elder on what has changed in his lifetime. 'Graduates cannot speak two correct sentences.'

Status: shipped
John Bayode, Weekly
Lagos, Weekly Series, 2026

Social anxiety in Nigeria.

A Nigerian student opens up about social anxiety. 'All eyes on me, everything went black.' First in the weekly series.

Status: shipped
Gift, Short
Nigeria, Church, 2026

Inside a Nigerian church service.

Gift takes the camera into a Nigerian church service. Community and culture, caught and presented from inside the room.

Status: shipped
Gift, Campus
Lagos, Power Crisis, 2026

How Nigerian students survive the power outages.

Gift asks campus students how the lack of electricity affects their lives. Reading, projects, exams, charging phones, survival mode.

Status: shipped
WalkwithGod, poidh
Abuja, Phone-shot, 2026

What do Nigerians think of the USA?

WalkwithGod catches Paul in Abuja. US inflation, single-party politics, and why Jay-Z is top notch. Filed for a poidh bounty, phone-shot.

Status: shipped
Gift, Campus
Nigeria, Campus, 2026

Post-graduation pressure in Nigeria.

Gift asks Son of God about post-grad pressure. 'Being the head of the family' is the pressure that lands. Plus peers with connections.

Status: shipped

India. First from Mumbai.

May 2026 · 1 dispatch shipped
Programs

Live programs underneath the field.

Three programs run alongside the country dispatches. The Denver Q1 archive (100+ street interviews, shot solo on a phone) is the proof of concept the rest of the network is built on. Philadelphia is the active U.S. beat. Let's Talk About ETH: Around the World is the show that started it all, six episodes, now wrapped.

Long-form pieces published on the blog: four pieces on Paragraph going back to 2023, ETH Denver 2024 reflection, the Black Blockchain Summit, Ep. 18 with Amaya Langaigne, Web3 Africa in Motion. See the full Portfolio

Submissions

Submissions to the network. In progress.

Contributors are already shooting. Gift in Lagos. Bayo in Abuja. Aziz and Fidesio in Nairobi. Marissa biking across the U.S. and reporting from a different state each month. Sicka submitting from Nigeria through power outages and patchy data. Devin starting in North Carolina. Wuraola editing the Channel 5 footage from Q1.

The network opened Jun 1, 2026. What they shoot goes up here as it is approved, and what you see on this page is the work that has already shipped.

Live submission feed, open since June 1, 2026

This is where every contributor submission will land, named, dated, linked, and evaluated. We’re building it in public. If you’re shooting work for We Them Media right now, drop your submission on poidh and we’ll surface it here once the season opens.

The Arc

The arc from launch to completion.

Season 01 is a single six-month arc with two real tentpoles: June 1 launch (done) and November 30 completion. From September 15 to October 12 a new piece goes public on YouTube every day, starting with the Streamer University line from New York. December is rest. Whatever Season 02 looks like opens after a deliberate pause.

  • Now, Sep 2026 A new piece on YouTube every day from 15 September to 12 October, starting with the Streamer University line. The We Them Weekly newsletter launched. One Question running: 150 interviews by 4 November, 58 in so far. 8 monthly supporters at $178 a month through Fractured Atlas. Long form now dropping.
  • Spring 2026, pre-launch Practice period. Bounties opened, contributors shooting, applications out to fiscal sponsors. Website and standards public. Editorial guidelines drafted with collaborators.
  • May 2026 Standards published, now folded into the Mission page. Tiny News Collective application submitted. Bitcoin Pizza Day bounty run and paid out.
  • Jun 1, 2026 Network went live. The full publishing stack ran end-to-end for the first time.
  • Jun → Aug 2026 The model tested under real conditions in real cities: Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi, Philadelphia, Charlotte, plus Marissa’s rolling state-by-state beat. Biggest push of the summer was the ETH Conf rollout.
  • Q3 2026 A pilot on one story, recording its research step by step from first question to publication. Talked to CTRL+X about licensing a few pieces.
  • Q4 2026 A public review of Season 01, covering what worked and what we would change. Twelve strongest contributors selected for retainer slots as lead voices for their cities.
  • Nov 30, 2026 Season 01 closes. Completion conversation with the team, recorded, public, named acknowledgments for everyone who showed up across the season. December is rest. Season 02 plans open in January 2027.

The Mission page walks the same arc in more depth, with the publishing stack and the rules for what gets shipped.

Sixteen at random.

Sixteen from the whole catalogue, picked at random as the page opens. No order, no ranking, nothing chosen for you.

5:49
Washington, DC

A computer science student learns Bitcoin.

5:41
Philadelphia

The USA, the city, and a cleared record.

5:31
Denver

Walking the East Side: street footage from Denver.

18:11
Philadelphia

The group photo, and the real conversations that started after it.

1:46
Nairobi

Chasing Mavericks CEO on crypto creators.

3:39
Denver

An overdose prevention worker on Narcan, youth, and Colfax Ave.

2:41
Philadelphia

The draft, prices, and the United States: three young men.

2:31
Abuja

In the Same Room: it's always, always about impact.

2:40
Denver

Who the hell is Tim P?.

0:54
Islamabad

Pizza Day from Islamabad: Hamza Khan.

21:24
Philadelphia

“The numbers don’t add up to work for nobody.” Mr. P on Haines Street.

1:05
Guilford, Vermont

Larisa, artist and jewelry maker.

1:47
Denver

“Bring our people home”: on focusing overseas instead of here.

38:30
Nigeria

Sewing, battle rap and a grant that actually landed.

23:48
New York

Russ and Sirsu in Manhattan: use every resource at your disposal.

4:15
New York

ETHConf: DeFi is confusing, even for developers.

Keep this going

8 supporters at $178 a month pay for this work, on the way to $1,000 a month. 58 of 150 street interviews are in for One Question, which closes Wed 4 November.

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