If you’ve been considering becoming a member of the Autopian, this beautiful March might be a good time to do so. We are offering (or threatening, depending on your view) for you to be able to potentially join a group chat with your favorite Autopian writers and editors in April. All you’ve got to do is become a member of this website in March.
Or, if you’re already a member, you can upgrade this month and be entered into the same drawing. As an added perk, if you use the code groupchat at checkout, you’ll 9.98% off. I’m not sure why it’s not 10% off, as that’s what I attempted to do, but 9.98% off is pretty good.
As a reminder, at every level you get access to:
- An experience free from display ads/video pop ups/anything popping up
- Access to member-only posts
- Special member-only emails
- Special Discord access
- Pride
At other levels, you’ll get t-shirts, badges, stickers, et cetera. You can read all about the different levels here.
Membership is extremely important to the website as it allows us to offer an experience with fewer ads than our competitors and keeps us focused on our readers and not our advertisers. We’re grateful to the members we have, and every new member helps us stand up against the worst of AI slop, expand our community, and deal with the vicissitudes of the modern web. Plus, the shirts are pretty cool.
How will the group chat work? You have from now until March 32nd to enter, and from April 2nd to the end of April, you’ll be on a group chat with The Autopian, platform TBD. We’ll give you some special previews of articles, let you see behind the curtain, and you can ask us questions about Saab Sonetts, Volvo 240s, and BMW i3s in our breaks between the hard labors of blogging.
It’ll be fun!
I’m still unemployed. Otherwise, I would upgrade to Velour.
I wouldn’t subject you guys to a dedicated groupchat with me. So I’ll stick at the membership level I’m at.
Let’s see, I’m vinyl. I’ve missed my birthday by a bit – that’s a big draw for Velour – but there was someone recently who mentioned to MH that money was an issue with becoming a member (possibly fixed income?). If I can find that person they’re getting a gift sub.
A little shill for Velour level – the birthday art I got was freaking awesome (as seen in my avatar), and what floored me is that there was apparently a significant internal debate within the editorial team as to which perspective to use. Who the heck does that??? (apparently the Autopian staff, and I’m very much here for it…)
Hello yes can I buy a pride upgrade?
If you’re out of that I’ll take a little self-respect.
No?
Eh screw it, just run some more articles about earthworks and heavy machinery and I’ll be set.
Oh, man I am going to make you guys regret this. Ive been looking for an excuse to upgrade, and the opportunity to delight the staff with my snark may be just the thing.
Well, i cant afford to upgrade… guess Ill just buy a second membership.
Theyre like cars, why have only one?
Saab Sonetts? Tough deal to turn down.
SWEET! A new place to tell Hardibro to just buy the Volvo (bro).
Is it that if you don’t, you’re on TWO (or more?) groupchats with them?? B/c I don’t think I’d be able to keep up/respond to Adrian’s commentary in anything approaching real time.
To be clear, by groupchat, you mean a private Signal channel where we discuss covert raids on TheDrive then publicly deny it, right?