[Roosh]

It was time to close down today, at least temporarily:

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After six years of continuous operation and 5,800 articles published, I’m putting ROK on an indefinite hiatus so I can take a break from the daily grind of maintaining the site. I don’t know when the hiatus will end.

The first factor for this hiatus is that site revenues are too low. We’ve been banned from Paypal and countless ad partners, which forced me to lay off the site editor last year and also lower payments to regular contributors. This started a negative spiral of declining content quality, site traffic, and revenues. Even the beloved comments section, which many see as the highlight of ROK, was badly hit when Disqus banned us. Currently, ROK receives half the traffic of its peak and less than one-fifth of the income.

The second factor is that I’m burned out. Keeping ROK updated, writing books, posting articles on my blog, doing live streams, and maintaining the forum has put too much on my plate. Out of everything on that list, working on ROK has become my least favorite activity because duties are centered more around editing other people’s work than creating my own.

I’m sure many of you understand that we are in the early stages of a censorship wave that will sweep through society. Scoundrels like myself get banned first, and then soon the hammer will come down on anyone who dares to share the truth. Personally, I believe that I will suffer death by a million cuts, but until then, you can continue to follow my work here...

http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/retu...-on-hiatus

RVF will return to being the center of the community.

[Cr33pin]

When you bring the site back it will be.......The return of kings

[John Michael Kane]

I'm sorry to hear that Roosh, but understand your reasoning. There's no other payment system that you're not banned from that could take the place of PayPal? It really irks me when censorship wins. I know there are a lot of us who want to help you fight back.

[Roosh]

(10-01-2018 02:35 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  

When you bring the site back it will be.......The return of kings

Return Of Return Of Kings

(10-01-2018 02:36 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:  

I'm sorry to hear that Roosh, but understand your reasoning. There's no other payment system that you're not banned from that could take the place of PayPal? It really irks me when censorship wins. I know there are a lot of us who want to help you fight back.

There wasn't just one factor. The decision to close involved both personal and business issues.

[DarkTriad]

I'll be pouring out a little liquor when I get home. You've fought the good fight for so long, and your wins far outnumber your losses. Very few men go against the grain and have the kind of social impact/healing influence you have. You've touched so many lives and changed them for the better. And Trump is proof that guys like you are having an impact.

[John Michael Kane]

Hoping at the proper time it gets reactivated. At least there is still a lot of knowledge in the archive.

[david.garrett84]

ROK and all its glory in one picture:

[Ski pro]

Well that sucks. I see your point though, they’ll come for us all eventually.

Make sure you Back this place up.

[DamienCasanova]

From the bottom of my heart, Thank you for ROK. I found that site during a very tough time in my life when I was lost after a long term relationship, and I was searching for answers on life, women, and what to do next. I was probably trying to reconcile with my ex at the time, and ROK helped me identify my oneitis and banish it, as I finally freed myself to create a new life. I would say that ROK and the knowledge I gained from there, as well as the network of other "neo-masculinity" sites changed my life, and basically saved me from wallowing in beta-tude and set me back on the right path of masculine growth. It helped me work on myself, got me back into the gym, helped me find new hobbies and friends, tightened up my Game with the ladies, tightened up my mental game as I worked on the fortress on my mind, and I improved my life in numerous other ways.

ROK was my daily Bible for a long time, for several years I would check there daily and happily share all the new articles with friends. I would go back in the archives and read all the articles I could find from my favorite writers on the site, as I branched out onto their affiliate sites as well. I wound up migrating over to the RVF shortly after that and continued my growth offline. Sadly I haven't been visiting ROK as much in the last few years, maybe it's because I learned and internalized so many of the lessons there as second nature that some of the articles became redundant to me, but I would still stop in every once in a while and check out what was new.

The way I see it ROK is a victim of it's success, ROK is like the cure or the antidote to today's SJW-ism and the MSM propaganda...ROK was the Red Pill Cure for millions of Men. Sadly there's not as much money in handing out cures for today's diseases, like the disgusting pharmaceutical industry the money is in the spreading of the diseases and constant medication of them. Because once you've been cured of the Progressive Mental Illness you don't really need to keep taking the cure daily, you become the cure, as you start to walk the walk and talk the talk, and spread the red pill ideas yourself and cure other Men.

I can understand if ROK needs time to rest for a bit as we wage cultural war on many new frontiers, but ROK is leaving a legacy of hundreds of thousands, maybe more, men who have been detoxified and imbued with life-changing knowledge on how to succeed in today's twisted Clown World. But a day will come when the world will need this knowledge again....and we will be ready to Return as Kings, armed with forbidden knowledge that will be needed for the survival of the West. Thank you Roosh

[spydersuit]

We need to fight smarter. Not harder.

Subvert. Subvert. Subvert.

Have you thought about courting a large donor Roosh to support RoK and get you some help?

I find it hard to believe that there is not someone among us that could sponsor this.

This might be a stupid question, but do you have a bitcoin wallet setup for donations?

[Caduceus]

Will the old ROK articles of the past 6 years still be visible to read somewhere, or is the whole ROK website (and all its old content) going offline ?

[blck]

Is there a archive of the site ?
Too many good articles will be lost if it never go back.

[Roosh]

It will remain online as an archive.

[YossariansRight]

The ROK comments section always made me feel good: I realized that there are people out there who are WAAAAAAYYYYYYY more fucked up than I am.

[BeardedMastodon]

This seems like a smart move Roosh, we run a race of endurance; your best work will be that which you enjoy most. It’s always better to focus on a few things that you do well, especially because of the high standards you hold yourself to. You already know this, but it helps to know others commend your decision. In a world where success is sometimes defined as quantity rather than quality...

[MongolianAbroad]

Go to the Chateau , the commenters there will make you very greatful for your life !!!!! Some dudes never leave the comment section , its all they got in life. Actually there are quite a few places like that these days.

[Foolsgo1d]

I never really ventured into the comments for ROK but when I did I have to admit, wouldn't most of them get banned here?

[DJ-Matt]

Sad times, if it weren't for RoK I would have never found the forum (great idea putting links to recent threads at the bottom of the site BTW). I probably read RoK for almost a year before finally joining in December.

From Apple Cider Vinegar to Zinc, I have this community to thank.

[SlickyBoy]

I was disappointed but not altogether surprised to read that the plug was being pulled on ROK. It's tough enough to provide a consistent supply of quality content, but it's even more so when those controlling the means of distribution pull the monetization opportunities out from under you. If it means better content here or improved focus elsewhere, I can understand that as much as the economic angle too.

Roosh once remarked that shame is how they will censor us in the modern era, but it is apparently still true that when shame fails, silencing a few virtual presses is even easier than shutting down the many physical ones scattered beyond the sphere of Silicon Valley's influence. De-platforming the dissidents is only a few emails away. I'm actually surprised this forum is going as strong as it still is.

ROK was helpful to so many guys and gave every one of us willing to bang out an article the opportunity to publish for the benefit of anyone interested. Alas, when it flew too close to the flame and stirred the ire of the SPLC and similar groups, the writing was on the wall - economic censorship and electronic book burning were imminent events. I don't think that actual hate groups are getting as much scrutiny as the growing laundry list of alleged hate groups these days, which includes just about everything to the right of Karl Marx. The idea that ROK qualified as a hate group was beyond ridiculous, but as anyone in this forum knows, we are living in ridiculous times.

Keep your chin up, lads - nobody in a position of power bothers trying to silence ineffective voices. They're worried - they've got good reason to be.

[MrLemon]

Bravo for the 6 years. Censorship is real and here we see it revealed.

[Vladimir Poontang]

No!

Don't you do it RV!

[DrCotard]

Thanks a lot for creating ROK. I followed that page since its launch years ago.

[Johnnyvee]

I wasn`t even on the forum until the disqus thing happened. That`s what made me move over here, since I didn`t like the new comments system. In the wake of the disqus ban, (as Roosh mentioned) the quality of the articles took a real nosedive. Only so many; 4 ways to increase your T-leves that a man can read... No disrespect to the writers, as there where still some good stuff on the site. But it was not the same as when people like Roosh, Quintus, Relampago Furioso, A.V. Yader (my favourite) and others wrote the material. Hope it will be back someday though.

[MajorStyles]

I understand your decision. You're only one man (granted, a man that has accomplished a lot). But often times, narrowing your focus can be more effective. You can rest assured knowing that ROK made an impact in the world and, in some small way, influenced the great cultural changes we have witnessed in the last few years.

[JackinMelbourne]

(10-01-2018 04:03 PM)YossariansRight Wrote:  

The ROK comments section always made me feel good: I realized that there are people out there who are WAAAAAAYYYYYYY more fucked up than I am.

The comments section during the Discuss years was the highlight of ROK. I'm sure that I wasn't the only one to skim and go straight to the comments section.

Either way, putting the site on hold is a good decision. There is only so much material you can re-hash.

I'm curious whether it would be possible to put the site on auto-pilot with a randomize function so that every week, a different set of articles comes to the front page with the dates removed... All book advertising could remain in place but the other clickbait shit could go. Basically keep it in house, Bold and Determined style.