Pssst - is this thing on?
Checking you have been getting Webworm (& a 50%-off offer)!
Hi,
David here — hi, hello. I am doing a weird thing today and sending you this email from my old, disused Substack account. This is the equivalent of sending you an email from my late nineties “foxmulder453@hotmail.com” address.
It’s a little embarrassing, much like this horrible look and pose I tried the other day as a joke:
This email is basically some tech support.
If you have been happily receiving Webworm to your inbox lately — then stop reading now. This email isn’t for you.
But if you have been going “um, where the fuck is Webworm?” — read on.
If you are still reading this particular email, it means at some stage you signed up as a free subscriber to my journalism on Substack.
But as you may or may not know, I moved Webworm off Substack eight months ago for a multitude of reasons (including their laissez-faire attitude to Nazis on their platform, the gradual enshittification of the whole product, and their embracing of things like Polymarket. Yuck).
If you signed up to Webworm before August 15 of 2025 — I seamlessly moved you across to Webworm’s new home (www.webworm.co), and you should have kept receiving my weird investigations to your inbox as per normal.
If you haven’t been receiving Webworm lately, then this email is just a bit of a PSA to check your “promotions” tab, or “spam” folders. You may see a bunch of your missing Webworms in there.
Drag those naughty emails into your inbox.
There’s also a chance that back in the Substack days, you read Webworm in the Substack App, and had turned your emails off — so you are still not getting emails. And because Webworm is no longer sent out in the Substack app, you are not getting any Webworm anywhere! If so, login at www.webworm.co, and turn your emails back on.
Fixed.
If you signed up to my dead Substack account after August 15 of 2025 — then you have never gotten any of my missives to your inbox, or spam folders, or anywhere, because you signed up to a dead thing!
If so, I’d gently suggest you head to the current home of Webworm (www.webworm.co) and sign up. It’s the same deal as it’s always been: There’s a free edition, and a paid edition if you want to support me.
(Over on the FAQ page you’ll find a 50%-off deal for those who need it).
That’s all really.
I just want to make sure you haven’t been missing out, because Webworm has been busy over the last eight months, including travelling to Minneapolis to cover the ICE murder of Alex Pretti, unravelling the insanity and abuse inside Christian music’s biggest band, and getting sued just this week for my coverage of a man called James Sved.
As always: Thanks for reading my work.
David.
PS: If you still have questions — I spent a day writing this FAQ, which probably has the answers!
PPS: A foster pup I got to hold recently:
