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OOOFFF… right… I’ve just sat and PROPERLY gone through the SKOOL GAMES Q1 results, and I’m not even gonna pretend this was a quick skim… this was one of those “there is A LOT here and I need to actually slow down and LOOK” kind of moments… because when you start clicking through communities, founders, links, activity, pricing, you realise very quickly… this is not as simple as it looks on the surface… AND before I even get into this… let me say this clearly so there’s no weird energy around it… this is NOT me saying anything is right or wrong, this is NOT me calling anyone out, this is me looking from the OUTSIDE IN with curiosity and asking… what patterns can I actually SEE when I remove assumption and just observe what’s in front of me… Because when you do that… things start to reveal themselves… 𝗦𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧… 𝗟𝗘𝗧’𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦… One of the first things that hit me was the amount of 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 that are not being run day-to-day by just the founder… I’m seeing multiple admins across the board… 3 admins, 5 admins, 15 admins, … and that immediately shifts the narrative because what you might THINK is “this one person built this” actually looks a lot more like a 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠, 𝗮 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠, 𝗮 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 that is keeping things moving… Now again… not good, not bad… but important… because if you’re sat there comparing your solo energy to what is essentially a machine with multiple moving parts, then you’re not actually comparing like for like… and that matters when you’re looking at growth, activity, and results… 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗜 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗚… 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗧 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚… Because when you actually go into these communities… The Photo Project, Pro Gig Academy, F The Gurus, Eternal Life Tribe, AI Video Bootcamp… different niches, different energies, different messaging… but there was a VERY consistent thread running through a lot of them… These are NOT brand new… We’re talking testimonials from 2025… existing proof… established messaging… audiences that have clearly been building over time… so this idea that these are just fresh communities that popped up and won… doesn’t really hold when you look closer…

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RIGHT… STORY FOR YA Years ago I had this friend who told me she couldn’t watch horror movies because it was “dark energy.” Like could not be in the house if one was on. She’d be like “nope… I can’t be around that energy… it’s bad… I need to go out.” Proper kerfuffle about it… big energy speech…EW Meanwhile… she’s sat there eating a sausage sandwich… And I remember sitting there thinking (in my head OBVS because back then I kept my mouth shut)… hang on a second… so let me get this straight… you can’t watch a horror film because of DARK ENERGY… but you’re eating an animal that was enslaved, tortured, slaughtered, chopped into pieces and shoved into a sausage… and that energy is totally fine. WTF Now before anyone gets their knickers in a twist… this post isn’t actually about BEING VEGAN. That part just happens to be a true story. The real point is this… Back then I stayed quiet. I didn’t say anything. Not because I didn’t have the thought (OBVS the thought was there loud and clear in my head)… but because I didn’t think it was my place to say it out loud. I’m not that person anymore. Now I understand something that took me a long time to learn. I have a VOICE for a reason. Not to attack people, not to be nasty DUH… but to stand up for the things I actually believe in. So yes… now I will absolutely speak up for animals. If I see someone kick a dog… I will say something. If I see someone mistreat a human… I will say something. Not with violence, OBVS… but with my voice. Because silence helps nobody… And here’s where this loops right back to business (HELLO… you knew that bit was coming) Too many people are trying to build businesses while tiptoeing around their own opinions… scared to say something, scared to offend someone, scared someone might disagree, scared someone might unfollow them… all that polite little dance. But leaders don’t sit quietly hoping everyone approves of them. Leaders LEAD! They stand for something. They say the thing others are too nervous to say out loud. They have conviction. They have perspective. They have a BACKBONE

Right… hot take incoming and yep I’m probably about to ramble my way through this one (eye roll at myself already)… but the more I read that giant thread in Skoolers and the gazillion comments flying around, the more I kept thinking… Hang on a minute. This isn’t actually about “Relationships vs Money vs Tech” at all or is it? (Look I know we all see things through different lenses, this is an open conversation, and simply sharing another perspective… we have millions of them, thats the beauty of being HUMAN) ❤️ On the surface… yeah, of course, people are talking about categories, discovery, rankings, the Games, fairness, all the practical stuff. Obvs that matters a big time lot. If you’ve been grafting away for months building something, showing up every day, getting your community growing and then suddenly your category gets moved mid-game… yeah that’s gonna sting a bit. I’d be sat there like… OOOOOFFFFF ok then… what just happened there. But underneath all that admin-y talk and system talk and rule talk… what I actually see bubbling away is something way more HUMAN. Safety. Because when people build something day after day on a platform… their community, their income, their friendships, their identity as a creator, all the little inside jokes, the momentum, the energy… that stuff stops feeling like “just a platform.” It starts feeling like HOME. (yes I’m getting a bit woo here… just go with it). And when something shifts without warning… categories move… rules change… rankings wobble… suddenly the nervous system, the body, the emotions go HOLD UP A SECOND… Are we actually safe here or not? Not safe like danger danger obviously. But safe like… can I trust the ground I’m standing on? Because the reality is… most of us building online are kinda building on rented land. Skool. Facebook. Insta. Wherever. Amaze-balls platforms (obvs team Skool here), EPIC HUMANS, brilliant badass communities… but at the end of the day the land isn’t ours. The rules can shift of courseThe systems can change. And change… can be uncomfy AF.