This is public media. Patrons keep it public.
We Them Media takes no advertising and runs no paywall. Everything you see is free because patrons pay for the tools, the payment rails that get money to Nigeria, and the people who film it.
Frames from the tape your five dollars keeps rolling. Explore the catalog
Patrons of We Them Media are credited on every new piece.
Most supporters are at $5 a month, and that is the plan working: small and many leaves more people with a real stake in what gets filmed. A dollar counts.
| Every level gets | A dollar$1 / mo | Supporter$5 / momost popular | Sustainer$31 / mo, $365 / yra dollar a day | Major Patron$50+ / mo, $600 / yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All public content, no paywall, ever | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| The We Them Weekly, the newsletter, once a week: what went up, what we are asking next | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your name on the supporter roll on this site, and the founding roll | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Discord, and the WhatsApp group with the team | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Submit investigation requests, your questions shape the work | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Your name in the end credits of every video we release | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Private supporter channel, early access to releases, a vote on which bounties run each month | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Monthly coffee hour on Zoom with the team, quarterly townhall, priority voice on requests | ✓ |
Monthly amounts through Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3), are tax-deductible in the US. One Sustainer covers a real line item: a tool, a payment rail, a day of somebody’s wages.
- Fractured Atlas, our fiscal sponsor, opens in a new tab on Monthly, with our tiers ($5 / $31 / $50+) ready to pick.
- Pick an amount, or tap Other and type your own. A dollar counts.
- One-time instead? Use Give once below.
No ads and no paywall, ever. Tax-deductible in the US through Fractured Atlas. Cancel any time, in two clicks, with no email to anybody.
Any size, same button, same place: choose “one time” instead of monthly on the Fractured Atlas page. Tax-deductible.
Give onceSend any token to our ENS name on Optimism. No platform in the middle, no fee taken out. Not tax-deductible.
The people who became monthly supporters before this model proved itself are our Founding Supporters, credited as the people who backed community-made media when it was an idea and a spreadsheet.
Founding roll · names published as each supporter opts in
The work happens either way. Correspondents are filing, the catalog is going up, and we keep posting. Support decides how much of it we can pay for, not whether it gets made.
Why are you asking for support?
I am bootstrapping this. Support buys me the time to work on it fully and to grow the team. I am asking for the runway it takes to get We Them Media established as a platform and to release everything we have already filmed, which is years of it.
Can I contribute one time instead of monthly?
Yes. One-time gifts go through Fractured Atlas in USD, or you can send any token to wethemmedia.eth on Optimism. Monthly supporters get direct community access and a voice in what we investigate, so we lead with monthly, but one-time works.
I am interested but not ready to contribute yet. Can I follow along?
Join the Discord. We post updates, share research, and build community there. No financial commitment required. Join the Discord.
Is my donation tax-deductible?
Yes. We are a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3), so anything given through them is deductible in the US.
Not everyone has five dollars. Everybody has a street.
The other way to back this is to make some of it. Ask somebody a question where you live, get them to answer their own question on camera, then post it to X and tag @WeThemMediaHQ. It goes up on our channel with your name and your city on it. This season’s campaign runs to Thursday 10 December, and during a campaign like that an interview is worth as much to us as a subscription.
Ask it yourselfThe Weekly Connect is our community townhall, every Wednesday at noon New York time. It is where the week’s street interviews get played and argued about, and where the team says what it is actually working on. Everyone who backs this is invited, and so is everyone who does not. Come and see what the money makes before you decide anything.
Let's build this together.
Your money pays the people filming. Your questions go on the board and get asked on the street. Your name goes on the roll. Everything that gets made is free to everyone.
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