Why The FY Times Built a Real Website Instead of Just Chasing Followers
Why The FY Times Built a Real Website Instead of Just Chasing Followers
You know the accounts: 50 k–500 k followers, endless “can you believe this shit” posts, red-faced rants in Notes app screenshots, 3-million-impression threads that vanish in 48 hours. You smash that follow button, feel briefly alive, then go back to sleep.
Wake up.
Liking a viral thread about government corruption doesn’t scare a single civil servant. Retweeting a leak that disappears when the account gets suspended changes exactly nothing.
We didn’t build The FY Times to give you another dopamine pacifier. We built it to make your rage permanent, searchable, and impossible to delete.
Followers Are Leased Land – A Website Is Sovereign Soil
One phone call from Downing Street or DC and that loud account you worship is gone, along with every document they ever posted. Our site is already mirrored in seven countries by readers who actually give a shit. Good luck killing that.
Social Media Forgets in 48 Hours – Google Remembers Forever
Your favourite rage account’s threadnaught from last month? Already buried. Our takedowns are ranking page one for “MP expenses scam 2025” and “FOIA refuse tricks” four weeks after launch. In 2028 someone will still land here and get angry enough to act.
We Host the Actual Files – They Can’t Memory-Hole
X compresses your PDF until the signatures vanish. We serve the original redacted contract, raw spreadsheet, unedited audio. Download it, verify the hash, seed it. No moderator can quietly erase it when the agency rings up.
Every Visitor Becomes a Soldier We Own – Not Zuckerberg or Elon
On socials the platform owns you. Here your email and phone go straight into a list no billionaire can throttle and no advertiser can starve.
You Can’t Ratio a 4 000-Word Forensic Takedown
Bot farms drown threads in ten minutes. They have to actually read thirty-seven screenshots and a timeline before they can even try to debunk us. Most give up by paragraph three.
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The Streisand Effect Is Our Default Setting
The day some apparatchik tries to pressure our host, 300 volunteers will mirror the entire site before breakfast. Traffic 20× overnight. Mirrors never come down.
If you’re still only following accounts that talk shit and do nothing, you’re part of the containment strategy.
Stop renting your outrage. Start owning the archive.
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We’re new. We’re small. And we’re already unkillable.
Watch what happens when we’re not new anymore.
—The FY Times Not rented. Owned. And built for the long war.