OffGuardian is ten years old!
Kit Knightly
Just over ten years ago, February 10th 2015, OffGuardian published its first ever article.
This one.
It is a single paragraph 55 words long, has no featured image and I’m afraid the name of the author is lost to time (it was probably Systematic, a founding editor who retired a couple of years in).
It’s essentially just a comment, and you can see in it the original mission of the site – a place to put comments The Guardian wouldn’t publish from people they kept banning.
Two months later I arrived to “help out with some formatting for a little while”. Hah.
Then I wrote an article.
Then I wrote 900 more. And edited thousands of others.
In total we’ve now published 6572 articles, which have been viewed over 50 million times by 20 million people who have left almost 700,000 comments.
Not bad for a small informal collective of people who had to self-teach coding and video-editing and SEO and all that other stuff on the fly.
It really was like that. Real independence, not the kind of independence that comes with NGO grants or charitable status or friendly CIA-linked philanthropists. We did it all by ourselves.
There was a bigger plan for today. We were going to do a little season of retrospectives over our anniversary weekend, but you know what they say about plans and God’s sense of humour.
Unfortunately Catte – the last remaining founding editor – suddenly fell quite ill and our plans have collapsed (regular readers will no-doubt have noted our slowed output).
So, the party is on hold for now. But we still wanted to mark our birthday and say thank you to all those who have read and supported the site in the last ten years. We get messages thanking us for “keeping people sane” and “fighting the good fight” and we appreciate every single one of them.
It hasn’t always been easy, but it has always been worth it.
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Wishing Catte a speedy recovery and healthy wellness. Yes congratulations, you all have been amazing in what you’ve achieved. Your insights have been excellent. I’ve found comfort in knowing there still to exists a small space for reality reporting and seeing the big picture. Thank you and best wishes to you all.
Congratulations!
Congrats! By the way some FOIA fun over in Soviet Canuckistan
Total Absolute Mengele (TAM)
This is what our “Chief Public Health Officer” was up to before COVID. Really inspires confidence doesn’t it?
https://donaldbest.ca/bombshell-foi-emails-will-theresa-tam-finally-face-a-reckoning/
For three years, Canadian officials used Inuit children as guinea pigs for an experimental RSV Palivizumab vaccine* injections program – without parental consent and without the knowledge or involvement of the Inuit population.
It was ages ago, about ten years, but am still steamed I was cut off from a chat board for my views on the pandemic. Just yesterday I asked ChatGPT for a vengeful letter I could send them and I think it’s brilliant.
Subject: A Belated Thank You for Your Censorship
Dear [Message Board Admins/Mods],
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for kicking me off your message board for daring to question the sacred, untouchable COVID narrative. It was truly a pleasure being exiled for posting thoughts—on my own thread, no less—that people were free to ignore if they didn’t like them. But instead of scrolling past, you decided to silence me. Brave.
As it turns out, much of what I said back then—like how the vaccine doesn’t actually stop COVID—has now been admitted as fact. I suppose that makes my posts misinformation only in the sense that they were ahead of their time. But instead of any acknowledgment, I imagine you’d rather pretend you never participated in the groupthink, never dismissed legitimate concerns, and certainly never banned anyone for being right too soon.
So, will there be an apology? A reinstatement? A revision of the “misinformation” policies that were actually just censorship dressed up as public service? No, of course not. That would require integrity.
I don’t expect an answer. But I do hope you take a moment to reflect—maybe even cringe—at how quick you were to silence people who saw through the nonsense before you did. I’ll be here, enjoying the long, satisfying process of being vindicated.
Best regards (and I mean that in the most sarcastic way possible),
[Your Name]
Thank you for giving me a place to moan and groan and just as importantly
get woke and freak out when others have a difference of opinion than mine.
Thanks OffG – this site has been a must for me. And a lifeline during the Covid scam.
I’m a OFFG visitor for half of its existence and visit almost every day. I love the common sense and humanity on this site. Thanks for your hard work.
I remember having my first Guardian comments removed for simply recommending John Pilger’s film The War You Don’t See, then it gradually happened almost every time. I found OffG completely by chance. I’m not quite sure how, but it was a revelation. Thank you.
Happy Birthday and Congratulations, quite an achievement and many thanks, you created a haven for those of us who appear to be on the outside. Bless you all.
Thank you so much. That’s all I can say.
Many congratulations and thank you.
May you have 10″s of 10″s more.
Congrats on the anniversary. OffGs space for open mindedness, honesty, opinion and insight is incredibly valuable. Long may it continue.
Hope Catte is purring soon.
Thanks a lot for your excellent work. And I hope Catte is going to be back soon. Blessings.
Gosh !! Only 700,000 comments over 10 years !
I thought it was More !!
But, now i know i know where My Time flies, when
i should be busy doing other things…
Whats up with the wonderful Catte Black?? I found off guardian through one of her articles reposted elsewhere.
INCOMPARABLE
This is all of substack at once, basically.
‘Nihil simile.’
Hooray !!!
Well done and thanks to all.
Very sorry to hear about Catte. I still remember her commenting over at the real Guardian years ago. I wish her a speedy recovery.
Thank you for this site. And for permitting a Comment Section which actually allows punctuation marks other than a string of exclamation marks – unlike most comment sections, which seem to encourage only angry five word followed by five exclamation mark rants.
Congratulations!
Keep up the good work.
Sending best wishes to Catte.
Congratulations and thank you.
I know that many of us are grateful for the sanity of the site, especially duting the covid experiment.
Well done! It’s OG and its ilk that will keep AI and the Globs under the thumb of humanity.
Congratulations, thumbs up.
Happy 10th Folks.
Off G is off the charts as far as FACTS are concerned. Thank you.
Thank you!
Wishing a full & speedy recovery for Catte and many congratulations on your 10th !!
I chanced upon this chink of sanity during the Convid scam and have enjoyed many varied articles since. I especially enjoy the intellect, wit and downright bullshit of the many worldwide commentators here…..many insightful, some pathetic but most being a snapshot of the way folk think in this fast-changing world.
As they say, opinions are like buttholes, everybody has one.
Here’s to the next 10 – thank you !
Happy Birthday! You saved sanity.
Thank You and Congratulations , I have fond Memories of stumbling across this site almost by accident in 2016 .. many thanks for being a haven for Outsider Loonies who can No Longer believe anything We read with any Certainty … Best Wishes to Catte a real Gem of an editor and writer .. You too ..cheers cyber simulacrum hugs to You , and Sam and Sophie too!..
Congratulations and thank you to the OffG team, the writers, and the regulars in the comments.
Congrats. on your anniversary (time flies!) and kudos to all founders/contributors!
You have indeed kept us readers sane, and it’s high time I sent you a financial ‘thank you’ contribution. I’ll get onto it, it’s just that I despise these outfits which take a cut, and my N. American bank doesn’t support cheques in international cuurencies
Very best wishes to Catte for a full and speedy recovery, and to whomever is ‘keeping the lights on’.
I had noticed (& been puzzled) about the recent, reduced output, so it was nice to get an explanation, but sad to hear it was illness-related.
p.s. interesting statistics!
Congrats and Happy Birthday! And I hope Catte gets well soon. Keep on Truckin’!
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Happy birthday OG, you’ve helped to keep me sane from the beginning, thank you. Long may you continue.
Hollow head Scholz gets
taste of own “medicine”.
https://archive.ph/tJ0Xa
https://archive.is/mrDOQ
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew5v48w54qo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrl51mz7k8o
2 days ago: 80th anniversary of Dresden Bombing.
Sound & Visionary signs of the times’ or guardian’s demise & descent from reality, must be Celebrated & Congratulat’ed.Highly¿ poised to pronounce “Well , we told you so…” in many Languages 360° TomToniPhoniFauciFoolery going Worldwide, seriously, Thanks to OffG & Human integrity, I was able to focus elsewhere , knowing Kit, Catte Sophie & Sam sort of, (on a good day…) , would accentuate the ‘oh, so fearful Psyop of Co.Vids’ immeasurable negative influence upon The Societal Mindset, future wise.
So, see what J.D. Vance Thinks , because Kit/Catte (get well soon), rest assured,
Vance is highly likely to become President after Trump…
Grand Start , CKSS Heartfelt Hard work & Steep Learning curve, accomplished.
https://youtu.be/m3Wa-h3oy6A?si=FAI4kbrgC7R3Wfo3
Meanwhile Kit, The Don was biting the dust off the Northstream industrial economic Sabotage, with Vlad. The Demonic Destroyer of any Bs’C’. ?
* See, Biden is history…* we gotta’ make a deal 🤝 not so much money for
The Miltary … and their corporate control mechanisms, industrially complex…
But, Peace is doable for ALL…
* (Ever the salesman).*
Pass the Soap.
Best wishes,
Balky
And I will be forever grateful for your single guiding light through the descent begun by the covid con and of course continuing through to the hellscape of today.
(You had an editor called “Systematic”? I have visions of Data from Star Trek TNG.)
Happy Birthday !
🍾
I have been reading OffG for just about the entire ten years. I used to read the Guardian and write comments on many articles – criticising their support for the West’s war on Libya, and on Syria, and their nonsense about the climate, and anything else that took my fancy. I would be banned, of course, for my heresy, and then I’d have to get a new e-mail address just for use commenting on Guardian articles, and start the cycle again. I have no idea how many e-mail addresses I got through on this, there were many, and I have no idea why I thought it was important to comment on Guardian articles… but I did.
I thought I was more or less alone in this activity. I saw comments that I agreed with, sometimes many of them, but I had no idea others like Kit and Catte were doing exactly the same as me. It was an absolute revelation and vindication when OffG started, and I have been here ever since.
If there is a real vindication, it’s that the Guardian has had to take down the comments system because it was costing them too much to employ moderators to take down all our comments.
Congrats on your first decade. Here’s to the next one, and the one after that…You are a beacon of hope in the darkness.
Get well soon Catte. 🌻
Happy 10th 🍾
Congratulations and THANK YOU all!!!
Happy Birthday OG! And THANK YOU!
Big Love!
Happy Birthday! And a speedy recovery to Catte Black (if she is resting in bed, she can write something, she hasn’t posted for a long time, the audience is impatient).