rm play here. So the long-term reason for putting it on a subscription platform is that the YouTubes of the world they can't really handle my content because their business model requires them to pair content with advertisers. And the advertisers all say why would we take a chance on something that's controversial? Just pair it with kitten videos. So that's the problem that YouTube has. Even if they wanted to, the advertisers would say I'd like to give you money to pair with this stuff. Half the people who watch it are going to get mad at me for just pairing it.

So the advertising-based models, including my comic strip, everything else are advertising model. They don't really work anymore for a variety of reasons. The newspaper advertising model will probably just disappear because newspapers will disappear by the end of the year. I'll probably have no regular cartooning income I would guess from newspapers. So I'm looking to reinvent my content, figure out how to adapt to the new world, the post-coronavirus world. And I'm going to try the subscription service. That's where I am at scottadams.locals.com. If you want to be part of that you get all the good stuff and more.

Where will Dilbert be syndicated? Well it's in 2,000 newspapers and it's on a lot of websites and Dilbert.com. Probably a number of them will continue online but I don't know if newspapers make enough money from just their online presence. So my guess is that the physical newspapers, the local ones, will disappear. The biggest ones don't actually carry comics. You know the biggest newspapers, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, they don't have comics. So when the little ones go away, USA Today is a big one. When the little ones go away so too does the comic business because they're associated with the local papers mostly.

Somebody says they mentioned me on The Five yesterday. I watched The Five. I didn't see that. Did I miss that part? Yeah. Seven dollars is the subscription fee per month. If you're already donating to me on the Patreon site or on the web platform, because people have done both, I would ask you to discontinue that. And whether or not you want to be on the Locals platform, that would be a separate decision. But you know you could discontinue Patreon and you could discontinue using the interface app and I would be just as happy because now I have a little home. And the people who want to use that subscription feed and see a little extra, they're going to see it.

So what I'll be doing on the Locals app is I'm going to put a lot of micro lessons. I put my first micro lesson up th