Gab



Gab.ai, also known as Gab.com or Gab for short, is a alternate social media website that pushes free speech, starting as a result of Twitter censoring tweets and accounts during the 2016 election. Ghost advocated for the website as an alternate in case Ghost was banned from Twitter. During early March 2017 until the show's hiatus on May 8th, 2017, Ghost frequently took shoutouts from Gab, either after or before Twitter Shoutouts. People have to "repost" instead of retweet, or even like the post. Ghost was outraged that Trolls made it to Gab and made the same shoutout names like what would be on Twitter.

He later vowed that if Gab verified him on their site, he would exclusively take Gab shoutouts for the rest of the year. Gab later introduced a subscription service for verification, which Ghost was initially in opposition of. However, he later offered to pay for 5 years' worth of it, and was verified shortly thereafter. Following Ghost's suspension off Twitter, he mentioned in a ghost.report article that Gab is now his social media of choice, with him frequently posting articles on there, albeit not as often as he used to on Twitter.

Upon Ghost's return from his break on October 31, 2017, he initially only took Gab shoutouts, removing Twitter functionality from the show entirely due to his suspension from Twitter in June 2017. During February and March of 2018, Gab Shoutouts was placed on a lower priority in favor of taking shoutouts from Ghost's own chatroom. After June 13, 2018, Shoutouts were done away with and are currently no longer part of the show.

Ghost also partnered with Gab as a "Premium" user, with people being able to subscribe to Ghost through Gab for $5 a month to get access to Ghost's Chatroom. He has also utilized Gab as a means of accepting new Inner Circle members, with people being able to tip him $300 to get access to the IC. Most recently, he has sold autographs through this service, once again letting people tip a video $16 so they can receive his merch.

Upon his announcement of his impending departure from BlogTalkRadio in March 2018, some people asked if Ghost could do the show on Gab. However, Ghost said he's skeptical on if Gab can handle the amount of people TCR pulls in on a consistent basis. Ghost has attempted a handful of streams on the site, and all have had some level of technical difficulties.

Following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October 27, 2018, PayPal, Stripe, Joyent and Shopify terminated their contracts with Gab after it was revealed that the perpetrator was an Alt-Right antisemite and active Gab user. The site was later taken down entirely after its service provider refused to continue hosting it, making its future uncertain. Before the site was closed down, Ghost expressed his frustration with how Gab handled the shooting on his account and how he saw the situation as another targeted attack against the political right. After over week of silence Gab came back online on November 4th.