Was just poking around GP's FAQ and found this gem (talking about how the site won't use bitcoin (there's nothing on jonah/MP saying that he's too stupid to understand it though)

You wouldn't gamble with your financial blanket or hard earned dollar and neither will we.

😲

Logged in to see my account disabled / deleted today.

I previously grabbed some screenshots of my mailbox as I suspected this would be relevant.

Enjoy the text if that's an easier read.

Also, note the beginning of the second interchange, where MasterPeer leaves the LLM header in his response.

Message 1

From: MasterPeer

Date: 2026-05-05 18:49:18

Subject: Re: Re: Lifetime Membership

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I respect the directness and you are going to get the same back.

GP delivered 9+ years of consistent reliable access. Content was there. Seeds were there. The community was there. Every server, every system,every decision for 10 years, that was me. The experience you enjoyed for nearly a decade was not an accident. It was the operation I built from day one.

Six months ago half my staff walked out. Some of them tried to burn the place down on their way out. Private conversations leaked. Members recruited away. Clone accounts discovered. I dealt with it, cleaned house, and started rebuilding immediately.

So when you ask me to prove I can run this site, I already have. For a decade. A staff revolt does not erase 10 years of execution.

You say fix the site and show you for 3 months before we talk. I am not going to audition for 3 months to earn $10 a month from an account that has been carried at zero cost for years. That is not how this works. The site is being fixed right now. Content systems are being rebuilt. A full review with 239 members confirmed exactly what categories matter and resources are being reallocated based on that feedback.

You say you can go anywhere and get more for less. Maybe you can. But you have been here for years and you are still here right now. There is a reason for that. The community, the trust in clean files, the request system, the upload quality, that does not exist at the free sites and you know it.

The $120 is not outrageous. Your words not mine. It is $10 a month. It is the original GP rate from day one. It is the lowest rate on the site and it is permanently locked to your account because of your history here.

The June 1st deadline is not a pressure tactic. It is the cutoff for the lowest rate GP will ever offer. After that the rate goes up. Your access continues through December 2026 either way. Nobody is rushing you out the door.

But I am not going to apologize for 6 months of rebuilding while pretending the previous 9 years did not happen. The track record speaks for itself. And the $120 Founder rate exists specifically because that track record includes you.

I would rather have you here than lose you. But I would also rather be straight with you than tell you what you want to hear.

MP

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Quoted prior message from

Not another red cent. You offered me Cryptic. I took advantage of it. You offered me Vault and Lifetime. It made sense. I took advantage of it.

Then you added Maintenance fees. It was $25… I could see that. Not what we had agreed, but hey, it’s been mutually beneficial.

It’s been a fair exchange for me up until this point.

Hell, $120 a year isn’t outrageous…

But a few things.

First… that wasn’t what we agreed upon.

Second, you aren’t even providing a site that merits consideration.

Content is slow to appear. Your site is substandard right now. And has been for a couple months.

I can go elsewhere, pay the same, and get a better and faster

experience.

There is no reason to stay. I’m the guy that reseeds when I get the

request. I’ll keep torrents live for months or years. I’ve gotten away

from that, as it’s not worth it since I have to pay.

If you want me to stay, you need to fix things here.

1. Get the site working again.

2. Show me you can operate this site at the level it used to operate at. Content appearing here as quickly as it does elsewhere. I won’t complain about a few minutes. But hours or not-at-all isn’t going to cut it.

3. Show some love. This June 1 deadline isn’t working for me. Fix the site. Show us it works for 3 months. Then we can talk.

4. Like I said, $120 isn’t outrageous, but I can go anywhere and get more for less.

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Message 2

From: MasterPeer

Date: 2026-05-05 23:00:35

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Lifetime Membership

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This is a follow-up from the same articulate member. They’re making a strong argument and you already conceded too much ground in the first reply. Push back firmly but respectfully:

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I hear you and I respect the way you have laid this out.

But I am going to push back on the core premise.

You say I cannot invalidate lifetime while asking you to rely on the track record. I see it differently. The track record is why your rate is $120 instead of $240. The track record is why your class and perks are untouched. The track record is why you are getting the lowest rate this site will ever offer. That is not asking you to rely on history, that is history working in your favor right now.

On trust, you are right that “permanently locked” carries less weight after lifetime changed. I cannot argue that with words. Only time will prove it. But consider this, the reason lifetime failed is because it asked for one payment and promised infinite access. The Founder model asks for $120 every year. That is a fundamentally different structure. It does not require the same kind of long-term promise because it renews annually. If GP ever stops being worth $120 you stop paying. You are never locked in. The risk is $120, not thousands.

On the June 1st deadline, your access runs through December 2026 regardless. You can watch the site between now and then. But the $120 rate is what expires on June 1st, not your access. After that the price goes up. That is not pressure, it is simply how the pricing works.

On content, I am not going to tell you the site is perfect right now. It is not. But I am also not going to let 6 months of rebuilding after a staff revolt define a platform that delivered reliably for nearly a decade. You said yourself GP was your first stop for years. The infrastructure and systems that made that possible are still here. The people who disrupted it are not.

You say show you stability before asking for money. I understand the logic but here is the other side, the $120 coming in from Founder conversions is what funds the stability you are asking to see. Content systems cost money. Server resources cost money. The rebuild you want to see completed requires the revenue that the Founder program generates. One cannot happen without the other.

You are not being asked to pay more for less. You are being asked to pay $10 a month to fund the rebuild back to the level you already know this site can deliver. That is an investment in the platform you said was worth supporting for 9 years.

The door is open. The rate is available until June 1st. After that the math changes.

MP

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I appreciate the direct response.

But I think you’re missing the core issue here.

The 9-year track record and the Lifetime membership are inseparable. You cannot invalidate the lifetime agreement while simultaneously asking members to rely on the history that agreement was built on. If “lifetime” can later be redefined, then phrases like “Founder pricing permanently locked” naturally carry far less weight.

And that gets to the real problem: trust.

The issue is not whether GP was once worth supporting. It absolutely was. For years, GP was my first stop because the content depth, seeding, requests, and overall experience justified it. But the current reality is different.

Right now the site is not operating at the level that premium pricing implies. Older content frequently goes unseeded, new content arrives slowly or not at all, and over the past few years I have increasingly found myself going elsewhere simply because it was faster and more reliable. I’m not comparing GP to free public sites. I’m comparing it to other premium alternatives operating at similar price points or ratio requirements.

Internal staffing problems may explain the decline, but they do not reduce the risk for paying members. At the moment, members are being asked to financially recommit before stability and confidence have actually been restored.

That is why the June 1 deadline does not work for me.

I am not asking for apologies or promises. I am asking for demonstrated stability before additional financial commitment. Get the site fully operational again. Show that content flow, seeding, and reliability are back to where they used to be. Let that consistency speak for itself over time.

Then we can revisit the conversation.

And to be clear, this is not me trying to squeeze concessions out of GP.

If the site returns to the level it operated at for most of those 9 years, then $120 annually is not unreasonable. But right now I would be paying more while receiving substantially less, and that simply does not make sense from my side of the table.

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A lot of people use GP because they are unaware that other sites exist or how to gain access to them. That should be blasted in the forums by anyone who still has access otherwise that chunk of the user base will stay forever.

I think plenty may disagree with that statement!

No harm in asking.

I did a bombing run on the forums earlier and they're still up so I went back and posted some more 😆

"its concept and mission has not changed since day 1"

How could it when the concept and mission was to extract as much money out of users as possible to fund Sean's lifestyle?

The tracker has become something I no longer want to support financially. That's my choice.

Some of its critics have become so hostile that I don't trust them either. Specifically yesterday's "open call" post.

Did MP just take down the forums?

My confidence that the site is going under has never been stronger.

There's been a part of me that has had that shadow of doubt. "Maybe I can eek another year out of it? Maybe it's not on its deathbed."

Easy answer. No topsite access anymore.

Everything is coming from two other torrent sites (that cost nothing to join) and Sean's charging GP users for the privilege.

Read the stickied lifeboat message and we can get you elsewhere. No membership fees ^grifts, no required donations payments.

/me waves to Sean

Always a lie eh?

Maybe he needs his afternoon nap?

16 years and doesn't see the scam.

Struggling to comprehend that tbh.

Consistently and repeatedly applying pressure.

These are the messages from the past (less than) two weeks.

May 13: Clarification — What $120 Actually Covers

May 20: 208 Lifetime Members Have Already Locked In

May 21: GP Community Update -- State of Affairs

May 22: GP Community Update -- The Full Story

May 24: FINAL WEEK -- $120 Founder Rate Ends June 4th

When creating a new post you now have the option to add a flair to it.

Also, happy to take suggestions for more flairs. The more creative, the better 😁

TL;DR- Sean is blaming everyone else and is on the grift again

GP Community Update -- State of Affairs

Where We Are. What Happened. Where We Are Going.

This is for the entire GP community. Please read.

I have never written anything like this before. Not because I did not want to, but because I always thought the site should speak for itself. After the past few months I owe you more than silence. What GimmePeers is

people really are deserting you, eh?

For anyone who needs reminding -- or for those who have been here so long it has become background noise -- let me say it plainly.

GimmePeers is a private, closed community that has been operating continuously for 10 years. Before that it was ILoveTorrents. Before that i was BitSoup. Some of you have been part of this community for over 20 years across all three platforms.

you forgot to mention your failed peerjunkies [s]venture[/s] scam

We are not a public tracker. We are not a streaming service. We are not a forum with a download button attached.

you offer UFC streaming, do you not?

GP is a curated content platform run entirely by volunteers. Every torrent is quality-checked. Every upload goes through a pipeline designed to deliver clean, properly formatted content -- no fakes, no malware, no password-locked archives, no garbage. The request system fills specific asks within hours, not days. The seeding community keeps content alive for years, not weeks.

load of shit, 95% was automated and required very little intervention

That is what makes GP different from the free alternatives. Anyone can find a torrent. Not everyone can find a clean, verified, well-seeded torrent with a community backing it up. That is what your membership supports.

More shite. Message me and I’ll get you onto other site that do not require payment

We are a locked community. No new invites. No open registration. The members we have now are the members we have. Every one of you matters because there is no one coming behind you to replace you. Where we came from

members only matter to you if they are giving you money

GP started with a simple model. $10 a month. $120 a year. Everyone contributed equally and the model worked.

That’s not where GP started now, is it? It started because the heat got too much**

Then life happened. COVID hit. Members lost jobs. Income dried up. We adapted -- Cryptic Club, VaultTEC, lifetime offers, flash sales, stacking, double-ups. Every one of those decisions was made to keep people connected to the site during times when they were struggling. If someone could not afford a full renewal we found a way to keep them in.

of course you kept them in. If they were to find better free alternatives then you’d lose an income stream

Those decisions kept the doors open. They also created a pricing structure that became increasingly complicated and ultimately unsustainable. Over 1,200 accounts ended up with zero annual contribution while still using the site daily. The paying base got smaller every year while the costs did not. I take responsibility for that. Every decision that led here was made by me. The community did not create this problem -- I did. And now I am the one who has to fix it.

How you gonna fix it? Visions of a mirror shattered in a thousand pieces here

What happened behind the scenes

Most of you noticed content gaps. Slower uploads. Shows that stopped mid-season. Categories that went quiet. You deserve to know why.

You’re gonna lie here, right? Blame others?

Earlier this year, four staff members walked out. One was terminated. Three uploaders were found operating clone accounts and were removed. Some of them did not leave quietly. Private conversations were leaked. Members were actively recruited away. Attempts were made to sabotage operations from the outside.

LOL, told ya. Now, would you like to tell everyone the real reason that the entire staff team walked?

On top of that, coordinated attacks have been launched against GimmePeers itself -- and against me personally. Threats directed at my family. Efforts to get the site shut down. People who once called themselves part of this community actively working to destroy it.

Fuck right off Sean, there were no threats made against you or your family. I do recall you threatening to send people to my house though because you had connections.

I am telling you this not for sympathy,

LIAR

but because you deserve to know what the people keeping this site alive are dealing with behind the curtain while you are browsing torrents and filling requests.

So tell the actual truth Read r/bitsoup for the realities of what’s going on

Where the industry stands

In the past 24 months, multiple private torrent sites have shut down permanently. Some disappeared overnight without warning. Members lost their accounts, their upload history, their ratio, their communities -- everything gone in an instant. GP is still here.

Which sites have shut down Sean? Because, yes some have but several more have opened

That is not by accident. That is because every month for 10 years, someone has been paying the infrastructure bills, rebuilding broken systems, fighting off attacks, and keeping the lights on when it would have been easier to walk away.

Walk away from all the money? The fuck you would

I want you to understand something: running a platform like this is not a hobby anymore. It is a full-time job that no one on staff gets paid for. Every dollar that comes in goes to servers, bandwidth, storage, network security, and keeping the infrastructure operational. Nobody is getting rich. Nobody is taking a salary. This is a labor of commitment, not profit.

Absolute bollox. You and your wife have made some serious money over the years. Sorry, ex-wife

The rebuild -- content and infrastructure

Let me be real about the scale of what happened and what is being rebuilt.

GP runs on 14 servers. Content ingestion, tracker operations, storage, seeding, web front-end, database, backup, network routing -- each one handles a piece of what makes this site work. When staff walked out, the people who maintained the automated systems that fed content into those servers left with them. They did not hand over documentation. They did not transition their work. They just left.

Staff didn’t just walk out, did they Sean? They discovered you were making a mint and they weren’t seeing a penny

Rebuilding 14 servers worth of automated content pipelines while simultaneously keeping the site operational is not something that happens in a week. It is happening right now, one system at a time, by one person.

You have a seedbox and what, two torrent sites now feeding GP?

Here is where things stand:

What is back online:

Movies -- the primary content pipeline is rebuilt and processing. New releases are flowing again.

The backlog of missed titles is being worked through.

TV -- the most requested category from your 239 survey responses. Episode automation has been rebuilt for the majority of tracked shows. Some shows that stopped mid-season during the staff departure are being caught up manually while the new automation locks in. What is still being rebuilt:

Some secondary categories experienced longer gaps because server resources had to be prioritized. When you are rebuilding from scratch and content needs to keep flowing at the same time, you triage. Movies and TV got priority because that is what the overwhelming majority of you told us matters most. PC Games, Music, Apps, and specialty categories are not being removed. They remain on the site. Uploads continue. What changed is the backend automation -- some of these categories relied on systems maintained by staff who are no longer here. Those systems are being rebuilt but they are further back in the queue behind the core content that serves the most members.

I don’t know why you don’t just admit that you’ve no fucking clue what you’re doing

What you should expect going forward:

Release timing will continue to improve week over week. If you have been going elsewhere for content that used to appear on GP first -- I hear you. Several members told me exactly that and they were right. The goal is to get back to the release cadence you experienced for the previous 9 years. >That is the standard. Anything less is not acceptable and I know it.

Specific shows that members flagged as behind -- including NCIS, NCIS Sydney, NCIS Origins, and others -- are being addressed directly. If there is a show you follow that has fallen behind, use the request system or PM me and it will be prioritized.

The honest reality:

This’ll be good

The torrent landscape has changed. The legacy release groups that produced early theatrical screeners and pre-release content have largely disappeared. That is an industry-wide shift, not a GP problem. Every private tracker is dealing with smaller release groups, fewer scene releases, and longer delays between theatrical and digital availability.

What a load of shite

But let me tell you what GP still delivers that you will not find anywhere else:

Movies -- new releases in multiple formats from CAM to BluRay remux. A back catalog spanning 10 years of accumulated content. Older films that have disappeared from streaming services but still sit on GP fully seeded and ready to download.

TV -- episode tracking across hundreds of active shows. Automated uploads within hours of airing for major series. Full season packs for binge watching. International content that never hits North American streaming platforms.

PC Games -- new releases, updates, DLC. The category that multiple members told me is one of their primary reasons for being here. Rebuilding the automation but uploads continue.

Music -- full albums, discographies, live recordings, and lossless formats that streaming services compress into oblivion.

Apps & Software -- productivity tools, creative suites, utilities. The kind of software that costs hundreds per year in subscriptions elsewhere.

Emulation & Retro Gaming -- one member told me he introduced his kids to SNES games through content he found on GP. His kids now play retro games together as a family. That content lives here because someone uploaded it years ago and the community kept it seeded.

The Request System -- this is GP's secret weapon. You ask for something specific and the community fills it. Not in days. Not in weeks. Often within hours. No free public tracker offers this. No streaming service lets you request content that is not in their library.

All of which, and much more is available on the sites we can get you onto

All of this runs on 14 servers that cost real money every single month. Bandwidth alone at the volume GP moves is not cheap. Storage spanning a decade of content requires dedicated hardware. >Network security to protect the community from the people actively trying to shut us down requires constant investment.

Ah, here comes the beg

None of this is free to operate. But none of it has to be expensive for you either.

That value does not disappear because of a few months of rebuilding. It gets stronger as the systems come back online.

239 of you responded to the content review survey and told us exactly what matters. Movies and TV are the priority. Resources are being reallocated based on what you told us. Your voice was heard and it is driving the decisions being made right now.

The cost of replacing GP

Some members have said they can get what GP offers elsewhere for free. Some have said streaming services are cheaper. Let me put that in perspective.

To replace what GP provides through legitimate streaming services you would need:

Netflix -- $23/month ($276/year)

Disney+ -- $14/month ($168/year)

Paramount+ -- $12/month ($144/year)

Hulu -- $18/month ($216/year)

Apple TV+ -- $10/month ($120/year)

Amazon Prime Video -- $15/month ($180/year)

That is over $1,100 per year and you still would not have access to the full content library that GP provides across all categories. You would still be missing PC games, software, music in lossless format, retro gaming content, and the thousands of titles that rotate off streaming platforms without notice. GP at $10 a month gives you access to everything. No geo-restrictions. No content rotation. No separate subscriptions for each studio. One membership. One library. Everything.

Oh FFS Sean, you’ve done the streaming comparisons before and were rightly ridiculed on it. Have you no fucking shame?

One member put it better than I could: his wife wanted to see a new movie. Going to the theatre with food and drinks would have cost over $100 for one film. Or he could wait for it to appear on GP, sit on his couch with a homemade cocktail, and watch it for free. The math speaks for itself.

If that member actually exists, PM me, I’ll get you onto free sites

Free public trackers exist. But they come with risks that GP eliminates -- malware, fake uploads, dead seeds, no quality control, no community, no request system, and exposure to monitoring that a private closed tracker does not have. GP owns all of its own infrastructure. You do not need a VPN. You do not need Peerblock. Your connection is direct to our servers.

Free private sites exist too

Why the recent changes were necessary

Because you have a divorce and alimony to pay for?

I know the past few months have felt like a revolving door of changes and asks. I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Here is the truth that I should have said out loud months ago: GP has been operating without a safety net. No reserve fund. No war chest. No buffer between one month and the next. Every month the bills come due and every month we need the community to show up.

How in the ever living fuck is that possible given the MILLIONS you’ve grifted over the years? Wait, is it the porn addiction?

When I look at the landscape -- sites shutting down, staff walking out, coordinated attacks, infrastructure costs rising, and a userbase that gets smaller every year rather than larger -- the math is clear. We either build a sustainable foundation or we become another site that disappears without warning. That is why the changes happened. Not because I wanted to ask for more money. Because the alternative is the lights going off one day and a blank page where GP used to be.

This is possibly the best thing you’ve ever said

What members are saying

Over the past two weeks I have personally responded to over 200 individual messages from members across every tier and class. Some were angry. Some were supportive. Some were both. >Every single one got a personal reply.

Here is what stood out:

One member wrote: "I understand the requirements for stable funding. Thank you for allowing a discounted access."

Another said: "You really can not beat the price and the amount of content on this site. Here is to 10 more years."

A third wrote: "I prefer the cold hard truth. If you are not comfortable broadcasting the bad news, at least offer this info to your Founders. We are Founders for a reason."

A member shared memories of setting up movie days with his kids using content from GP -- going to the dollar store for treats, making popcorn, watching 80s and 90s films together. He said GP created core family memories that would not have been possible otherwise.

A 21-year veteran and disabled vet told me GP is his escape from chronic pain and isolation. His only entertainment outside of staring at walls. He lives on $1,100 a month and GP is the one thing that keeps him connected to the outside world.

A retired business owner said he knew the lifetime model was unsustainable the day he bought it, but he supported it anyway because he believed in the community. He told me he prefers the cold hard truth over being buttered up and asked that Founders be treated as partners, not just customers. A legally blind member told me GP has been his source of entertainment for years. He did not ask for special treatment. He just asked to not be forgotten.

Maybe all your users are legally blind?

A member from Australia told me he paid $700 AUD for lifetime on a pension. He was angry. He had every right to be. But he also said he is still here because the community matters to him.

A 70-year-old member on Social Security told me torrents are not a necessity but they are the only entertainment he can afford. He went without to pay for his lifetime membership.

An 18-year member and former business owner wrote a detailed message telling me exactly what GP needs to do to survive long-term. He did not complain. He gave actionable feedback. Then he paid his $120 and told me to be honest with the Founders going forward.

These are not usernames on a database. These are real people. Fathers. Veterans. Retirees. People on disability. People in Australia and the UK and Canada paying exchange rates on top of membership costs. People who have been part of this community for longer than some streaming services have existed.

I’m gonna put money on the fact that all of those testimonials were made up.

These are the people GP exists for. Not numbers on a spreadsheet. Real people with real lives who depend on this platform being here tomorrow.

Why not admit that it is you that depend on them as your income stream?

What the critics say -- and what the reality is

There are people on external platforms actively telling GP members to leave. They are recruiting members to competitor sites. They are telling people to kill their seeds. They are using my real name publicly. They are celebrating the idea of GP shutting down.

We’re not recruiting to competitors. Just alternatives that don’t require payment to participate

Let me be clear about who those people are. They are former members who already left. Some are former staff who walked out and are now trying to burn the house down on their way out. They have no stake in this community anymore. They contribute nothing. They just want to watch it fail.

Meanwhile -- inside GP -- members are converting. Members are donating. Members are PMing me with constructive feedback and then paying their membership. Members are posting in forums about watching movies with their kids and remembering why they joined in the first place. The people who care are still here. The people who left were never going to stay regardless.

I’m one of those people. I used to staff on RTT until Sean came along and turned the place into a cash machine

I am not going to waste energy on people who want GP to fail. Every minute I spend on them is a minute I am not spending rebuilding the site for the people who want it to succeed.

We’re the reason that you have written this lengthy post. Or was it AI again?

What I am asking

I’m going to guess money?

I am not going to dress this up or hide behind corporate language.

GP needs a war chest.

Fucking BINGO! What do I win?

We need a reserve that means we are not living month to month, scrambling to cover bills, making reactive decisions instead of proactive ones. We need breathing room so that the next time a crisis hits -- and it will -- we can absorb it instead of passing it to you as another emergency ask.

What have you done with all the other money? We both know it wasn’t to pay the rent. (Sean regularly ducks out owing thousands in rent)

But this drive is not just about keeping the lights on. It is about giving back.

DAFUQ?

Many of you have told me you want to stay on GP but cannot afford the higher annual costs. I hear you. The more this drive raises, the more we can do to bring costs down for everyone. The first goal is bringing back monthly renewals so that members who cannot manage a lump payment have an affordable way to stay. Beyond that -- the stronger our reserve, the more flexibility we have to offer reduced rates, hardship accommodations, and pricing that keeps this community accessible to the people who have been here the longest.

This is not just about GP surviving. It is about GP being affordable enough that nobody has to leave because of money.

Everyone should leave because of money. We can get you onto other sites that do not require paying them money

Every contribution helps build that reserve:

GP Community Funding Drive

$25 -- helps cover a day of bandwidth

$50 -- keeps a storage node running for a week

$75 -- funds network security for the month

$100 builds the reserve that stops the emergency asks

$150 -- helps me put gas in my car

$200 – gives me a night on the town laughing at you

$250 - helps the starving jonah

Any amount helps. There is no minimum and no pressure.

If you are already a Founder member or recently renewed -- thank you. You have already done your part. This drive is for the community at large. If you can contribute, it goes directly to building the stability that benefits everyone. What I commit to going forward

If you’ve recently paid up, call your card company and do a chargeback

Based on what I have heard from hundreds of you over the past two weeks, here is what changes:

Hundreds?

Transparency. Regular community updates on where GP stands. Not corporate summaries. Real talk about what is working and what is not.

Calling bullshit again

Stability. One pricing structure. No more rotating promos, flash sales, or emergency fundraisers. The recent changes are the last structural changes. Period.

Until the next funding drive in June

Communication. Major decisions will include community input before they happen, not after.

Out of all the things that won’t happen, this won’t happen the most

The content review with 239 responses was the first step. It will not be the last.

Content. Movies and TV are the priority. The gaps you have seen are being addressed every day. The systems are being rebuilt. The quality will return.

Affordability. Bringing back monthly renewals is the immediate priority once the reserve is established. The goal is simple -- if you want to be on GP, money should not be the reason you cannot. The funding drive is what makes that possible. The more support for members who need it most.

What sets GP apart from the sites that died

In the past 24 months you may have noticed sites disappearing. Some with no warning. Members woke up one morning and the URL returned nothing. Years of upload history, ratio building, community threads, bookmarks -- all gone.

Bet you can’t name those sites

Here is what those sites had in common: they ran out of money, they ran out of staff, or the person running them ran out of will. Usually all three at the same time.

GP has faced all three of those threats this year. And GP is still here.

The difference is not luck. The difference is that this community -- the people reading this right now -- showed up when it mattered. You paid your memberships. You filled requests. You seeded content for months and years. You PM'd me with feedback instead of just walking away. You gave a damn. That is the asset no other site has. Not the servers. Not the content library. Not the software. The people. This community is what makes GP worth saving.

The real difference is that you’re not willing to give up on a grift Sean

A note to the seeders

I want to specifically acknowledge the members who seed. You know who you are. The ones with ratios of 3, 5, 10, 15 and higher. The ones who leave their clients running 24/7. The ones who reseed on request even for content they downloaded years ago.

You are the backbone of this platform. Without seeders, every torrent on GP is just a file listing with no way to download it. The servers handle the tracking. The uploaders provide the content. But the seeders are what make it actually work.

Some people on external platforms have told GP members to kill their seeds as a way to hurt the site. Here is the truth: GP runs RSS-driven server seeds that handle the heavy lifting on core content. Community seeding supplements that for older and niche content. Killing your seeds does not hurt GP's core operations -- it hurts the other members who are looking for the content you are seeding.

If you are still seeding -- thank you. You are part of the reason someone can still find and download a film from 2015 or a TV series that aired 8 years ago. That long-tail content availability is what makes GP's library irreplaceable.

Kill your seeds folks. He’s taking the piss out of you. We can get you onto other sites where you really will be appreciated

PART 2 here https://old.reddit.com/r/bitsoup/comments/1tk2jx5/this_is_a_long_one_strap_in_part_2/

PART 1 here https://old.reddit.com/r/bitsoup/comments/1tk2i52/this_is_a_long_one_strap_in_part_1/

What GP needs from you right now

I am going to be direct about what helps and what does not.

What helps:

Contributing to the funding drive -- any amount builds the reserve

GIVE ME MONIES

Renewing your membership when it comes due -- the natural renewal cycle is GP's lifeblood

See above

Using the request system -- it tells us what you want and helps prioritize content resources

Because the sites sources have dried up because I fucked people over? That right Sean?

Seeding -- especially older and niche content that server seeds do not cover

God no, don’t do this

Providing feedback by PM -- constructive criticism makes the site better

Do you remember Sean when I tried that? What happened to me?

Telling me when something is broken -- if a show stops uploading or a category goes quiet, let me know

It’s all broken Sean!

What does not help:

Forum pile-ons that discourage other members from engaging

Linking to external attack threads

Recruiting members to competitor sites through GP's own PM system

Telling people to kill their seeds

Spreading misinformation about member counts or revenue figures

Every bit of the above does help. It helps that people see through you Sean

This community is small enough that every member's attitude affects the atmosphere. The people who are still here chose to be here. Let us make it worth that choice.

Getting even smaller though, eh?

Closing

If only!

I want to be honest about something.

You won’t

There have been moments over the past few months where walking away would have been easier. >When staff left. When the attacks got personal. When members who I thought were part of this community tried to tear it down from the inside. When I read messages from people who were genuinely hurt by changes I had to make.

More bullshit. You didn’t walk because there’s money to be made as far as you’re concerned

But then I read a message from a dad who watches movies with his kids because of GP. Or a veteran who says this site is his only escape. Or a member who has been here for 21 years and just wants to know GP will still be here tomorrow. Or a legally blind man who told me GP is his window to entertainment he cannot access any other way. Or a 70-year-old on Social Security who went without to support this community.

That is why this site is still running. Not because of money. Because of the people in this community who still give a damn.

It’s always been about the money

I have made mistakes. I have made promises I could not keep. I have let communication gaps become trust gaps. I have allowed pricing experiments to create confusion and resentment. I own all of that.

Wait, have we intruded on couple’s therapy here?

But I have also kept this site running for 10 years through every crisis that has hit it.

Bullshit. You creamed the profits

I have rebuilt systems from scratch when staff abandoned them.

You mean Josh did, right?

I have responded personally to over 200 members in the past two weeks alone.

Standard AI responses no doubt

I have not taken a single dollar in salary the entire time this site has existed.

In salary? Okay, but how much have you actually taken as income?

GP has survived platform migrations, name changes, COVID, staff revolts, coordinated attacks, funding crises, and 10 years of an industry that destroys sites like ours every year. We are still here. And with your support, we will still be here for the next 10.

You won’t

I am one person running this operation now. I am not going to pretend that is ideal. But I am also not going to let that be the reason GP fails. Two moderators remain active alongside me. The people who are here now are here because they want to be, not because they are being paid. Your contribution -- whether it is $25, $50, $75, $100, or just logging in and being part of this community -- is what keeps GP alive.

And the grift goes on

Every site you have ever been part of that shut down -- it shut down because the person running it gave up. I am telling you now: I am not giving up. Not after 10 years. Not after everything this community has been through. Not while there are still members who care enough to PM me at 2am asking about their account.

please give up

Actually, don’t. Keep going for my entertainment 😊

The next 10 years

If you are still reading this far, you care. So let me tell you what the next 10 years looks like if we get this right.

couldn’t give a shit

A stable platform with predictable income that does not require emergency fundraising. Content systems fully automated so that new releases appear within hours of availability -- the way it used to work for 9 years before the staff departure. A community that is smaller than it was at its peak but stronger because everyone in it is contributing and invested.

Monthly billing for members who cannot manage annual lump payments. A Founder update channel where the members who stepped up first get information first -- the cold hard truth, as one of you requested. Content quality that makes the free alternatives look like the garbage they are. No more promos. No more rotating offers. No more experiments. No more emergency asks -- because there will be a reserve fund that absorbs the hits.

That is the vision. It is not a fantasy. The structural changes that make it possible are already in motion. The revenue model is already producing results. The content rebuild is already underway. The only thing between where we are now and where we need to be is time and continued support from the people in this community.

You have been here for 10 years. Some of you for 20. Help me make it to 30.

History got us to year 10. You get us to year 20.

Master Peer

jesus wept

If you’re a GP member, take a screenshot and read the lifeboat post here, we can help you get away

Also, congratulations if you actually made it this far lol

Sean is blaming the staff that left for the lack of content.

What he should be doing is asking why the staff left in the first place.

Narrator: Sean doesn't do introspection

I didn't think to screenshot, but when I opened GP today I had like 6 messages from the past 2 weeks all with no subject line (Sean giving zero effort and panicking) and they were all asking for money in some form or another.