Copying the English-language interpreted transcription from the linked video's description:
For the past 10 years, The Daily Moth has brought you news and entertainment in ASL with English transcripts. We largely relied on sponsors through yearly contracts to keep the show running for free on social media, but that’s changing.
In the beginning of the year, one of our long-time sponsors wanted to explore a new direction, meaning their sponsorship ended. Not long after that, another sponsor said they needed to adjust their support, and we didn’t extend our contract. It’s a challenge, sure—but it’s also an opportunity.
This moment is pushing me to chase something I’ve always dreamed of doing. And here’s the thing: I can’t do it without you. The Daily Moth will become a subscription-based app/website.
That means I will be asking you to pay for a monthly subscription, just like your favorite news services or streaming platforms, to view our ASL news and other content, on our app/website. It will be $3.99 per month or $39.99 a year. The app/website is ready, it’s live on the Apple Store and Google Play right now.
I’m doing this to find financial stability for the news service, to be able to grow exponentially, and ultimately to be a truly independent news and entertainment service for our community.
I’m grateful to our sponsors and those who have donated for carrying “The Daily Moth” this far. They were like a Moon, guiding the moth. Now I’m asking for your support to help us soar even higher, to go for the stars.
There’s so much more to cover in our universe, so many stories to be told.
Will you subscribe and stay with the light? See you in the app and/or our new website!
Sigh. I guess on the one hand it's better for a Deaf news source to get its funding directly from Deaf people, rather than corpos aimed at Deaf people; but at the same time a lot of Deaf people just straight up don't have the money for this sort of subscription. I mean, at a time of attacks on ASL across Seppoland, the White House abandoning interpreters for press briefings, Elon Musk using his own digital soapbox to personally spread anti-Sign rhetoric, is now really the best time to make ASL news less accessible? What we're seeing here, as I see it, is the laws of capitalism naturally resulting in attempted linguicide — we already saw similar things happen to e.g. the Scandinavian-language newspapers of Seppoland long ago, didn't we.
The Daily Moth's shift to a subscription model was spurred by sponsors pulling out, but what spurred the sponsors to pull out? That's my question.