we figure out what their next move is. I couldn’t bring myself to make the entire channel private. Other creators have. I feel it may be safer now, so I will make the Peep videos public, for your kiddos.
It’s a constant fight to try to undo their damage. I’ve always had to work triple-time to fuel this. Any income sources I gain, like YouTube revenue, consulting jobs, or sponsors like Grunt Style, goes right back into the mission. The key is to decentralize their power over us and give that power to the people. That’s what America was founded on after all, right? “We the People!” This is why I started patreon.com/KirstenJoyWeiss to share my channel’s message without puppet strings of Google or Facebook, etc. As the name implies, the site allows patrons to offer their direct financial support. But it’s better than that. It is a community gathering together for greater communication and power. E pluribus unum in action. It’s incredibly exciting. Plus, if my patreon site ever goes down the rabbit hole, I can still contact my patrons/ members and we will simply create another way around this gosh awful censorship. Tenacity is in my nature.
ASJ With YouTube blocking and demonetizing your videos, how do you pay the bills? KJW Well, my parents raised me to be frugal and tenacious, which is good because it’s a complicated dance to keep the machine fueled. All the major social media platforms either attack gun-related content or permit it to be unfairly attacked. There are too many ways they censor to list here. Some more covert, like something called “shadow banning.” Others more overt, like alert messages blocking a post. I’ve often seen a kind, insult-free comment explaining about human rights hit with a big warning sign telling us the platform (Instagram especially) “restricts certain comments for the protection of the community.”
ASJ I have one more question for
you. Since we couldn’t watch the Peep videos, my kids and I watched the one where you shoot the miniwatermelon with a P38 pistol from a one-legged yoga pose. As soon as you brought out the melon, my four-year-old daughter said, “I love watermelons!” She was perplexed when you blew it apart. She turned to me and asked, “Why does the pretty lady hate watermelons?” KJW I love watermelons too. ASJ You have a funny way of showing it. Editor’s note: You can visit with Kirsten Joy Weiss at her social media sites youtube.com/KirstenJoyWeiss, facebook .com/kirstenjoyweiss and instagram .com/kirstenjoyweiss. When you like her posts and subscribe to her page, you are helping her spread the message of “the fun, challenge and joy of shooting” to the masses. For more direct shooter-toshooter interaction and sophisticated shooting content, visit her webpages at KirstenJoyWeiss.com and patreon.com/ KirstenJoyWeiss.
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