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UATV Global Payments Live

Subscribers outside the USA can now sign up, subscribe, and pay for their UATV subscriptions. Please be sure to read and follow all the instructions precisely as written in order to avoid bogging down the developers with questions that are not necessary.

Over the past month, we’ve made significant progress in stabilizing the independent payment infrastructure of Unauthorized. With U.S. subscriptions now being successfully handled by Silicon Prairie’s e-Check system, we are taking the next crucial step by restoring global access through international bank transfers.

Today, we’re introducing two major upgrades:

  1. Annual plans for all subscriptions
  2. Bank transfer payments via SWIFT for subscribers worldwide

These changes are not just new payment options. They are part of our long-term strategy to maintain uninterrupted, entirely antifragile service regardless of the actions of external payment processors.

Bank transfers come with their own limitations and requirements, and we hope to cover all of the relevant details in this article. That being said, the important thing to remember is that they provide a reliable, independent fallback option when all other systems fail.

The big news

As of now, annual plans are available for all subscription types. Most are priced at an equivalent value to their monthly counterparts, though the Premium subscription keeps its 1-month discount under the classic Annual plan.

Please don’t hesitate to get back in the game, as it’s going to take a while to get back to where we were previously. But we’ve done it before, so we will do it again. But don’t panic, we’ll give it a few weeks before the paywall goes back up. Also note that this new system supports superchats as well as subscriptions.

Due to the recent algorithmic strangling of many channels on YouTube, we expect that there are going to be more creators coming to UATV later this year, now that it is becoming abundantly clear that the idea of building your brand on the foundation of a platform on YouTube is a very dangerous and high-risk game in which you don’t even know the rules and the referee is playing for the other side.

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The Long and Lonesome Skyway

On the long and lonesome skyway
Where the broken vessels go
Black hole martyrs lead the way
To worlds we’ll never know
In the seashell, in the circuit
Every fragment holds the whole
On the long and lonesome skyway
Lost between machine and soul

UPDATE: I didn’t like the guitar solo and coda of the initial version, which felt like it was tacked on because it quite literally was, so I remade it from that point. It’s now considerably more epic, with not one, but two guitar solos.

I’m not going to lie. It feels like I finally wrote my Orpheus, which is something I’ve wanted to do for more than 30 years. That may not mean anything to anyone else, but if you know, you know.

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Cruel Dominions

I found this old mix of THE WORD DESCENDED that I’d forgotten I did back in December, and was frankly kind of blown away by it. I think it’s going to have to go on the Soulsigma CD. Anyhow, it’s up on UATV for the subscribers. If you’re feeling down at all over the Espstein coverup, I think this will prove a salutary reminder that it doesn’t matter what they do, because they will never win.

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Why UATV is Necessary

It’s both short-sighted and foolish to attempt to build your business on the mainstream social platforms. Because no matter who you are, no matter how innocuous you believe yourself to be, sooner or later you’re going to find yourself in violation of the Narrative and you will be deplatformed.

On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.

In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:

According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”

Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.

Remember, all of these “Russia Russia Russia” and “Kremlin propagandist” accusations are not only nonsensical, they are complete fictions that the accusers 100-percent know to be false, because they made them up. But they suffice, because the big social media platforms are quite literally the modern successors of the three television networks of the 1950s and 1960s.

They are the primary medium by which the Narrative is propagated and maintained, now that no one but the Boomers are watching reading newspapers and watching network television.

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JD vs VD

Vox Day is the Lead Editor of Castalia House and the author of the Sigma Game blog. He has been nominated for 7 Hugo Awards and is an Award-winning Cruelty Artist. In this terrifyingly erudite podcast, the publisher, polymath and provocateur tries to persuade James that AI isn’t totally evil. Also on the menu: what’s really happening with the Iran thing; comic books; why Milo and Owen Benjamin get more hate than Vox; composing film scores; and why James’s ‘we’re all going to die soon’ pension plan may not work.

The two-hour interview is available on the Delingpod, as well as on UATV for the subscribers.

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Abandon the Platforms

YouTube has adopted a strategy of slow strangulation of popular channels of which it does not approve.

YouTuber Jeremy Hambly, known as The Quartering, has revealed the devastating impact YouTube’s algorithm manipulation is having on his channel, exposing a coordinated soft censorship campaign targeting creators who challenge progressive narratives. His breakdown of the platform’s systematic suppression demonstrates how Big Tech companies are weaponizing their algorithms to silence dissenting voices without the transparency of outright bans.

“I don’t know if many of you have noticed, but I’ve been a lot more shifty and weird breathing lately,” Hambly admitted in his recent video. “And it’s because I’m having near-daily anxiety. There’s been something going on with my YouTube channel over the past couple of weeks that I have been spending almost every single night trying to figure out.”

The numbers tell a stark story of algorithmic manipulation. Hambly explained how “over the past several weeks I have noticed videos that used to get 50, 60, 70, 80,000 views were starting to get 10,000 views, 15,000 views.” This dramatic drop isn’t due to content quality or audience interest – it’s the result of YouTube’s deliberate throttling of channels that don’t align with the platform’s ideological preferences.

Even more concerning is the subscriber hemorrhaging Hambly has experienced. “For the first time in three or four years, I have started losing a lot of subscribers. Hundreds, thousands a day,” he revealed. This pattern suggests YouTube isn’t just limiting video reach but actively manipulating subscription feeds and notifications to starve channels of their established audiences.

The financial impact has been severe enough to threaten Hambly’s entire operation. “These numbers are if it continued like this past these two weeks, which it has been, I would have to fire everybody that works for me. Everybody,” he explained. This reveals YouTube’s soft censorship strategy – rather than creating martyrs through outright bans, they slowly strangle channels economically until creators are forced to change their content or abandon the platform entirely.

We’re now laying the foundation for the 4th Stage of UATV, which will be the best, strongest, and most stable yet. I alluded to a few of our plans for the next stage in last night’s Darkstream, but you’ll see the new features and content being added gradually over the summer.

And in the meantime, be sure to tune into the Big Bear and Dark Lord show tonight at 7 PM Eastern.

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Change of Plans

Big Bear and the Dark Lord won’t be doing their usual Monday night stream tonight due to a scheduling conflict. Instead, we’ll be streaming live Tuesday night on UATV at 6 PM Central.

Don’t forget to a) subscribe to UATV and b) get on the new payment system!

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Get Your UATV On

I’m on with Big Bear tonight. And you can also listen/download Vibe Patrol’s latest single, COSMIC TRIGGER (Fly Your Freak Flag), which was released today and will be higher quality than you’ll get from iTunes, Spotify, or YouTube, where the new track is also available.

Paywalls and Superchats are coming soon, so if you are a former subscriber, now is a good time to get on board with the new payment system.

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