Is it me or is this subreddit dying out?

I am still here doing more than I ever have. People just kept saying I was using my position to unfairly promote and making up dumb conspiracy claims, so most of the time I just post on our /r/NootropicsDepot subreddit now. People can't have it both ways. If I am active, people say I am abusing my powers. If I am not active, people say nothing new is happening and that I abandoned everyone. I also started getting personally attacked for my mission in calling out other companies selling fake, impure, or untested products. I had death threats sent to me, my family, and my employees. I had hacking attempts and thefts of cryptocurrency. We had DDOS attacks on our sites and legal extortion attempts. It was getting to be too much. My team and my family pleaded with me to stop calling companies out, so I did. Did the competition suddenly start doing things right? HELL NO! It's just as bad as it has always been. I am just not publicly calling companies out anymore. Even when I do, people claim it is because I am trying to get people to buy things from us instead. I can't win no matter what I do. Competitors come here to shill and post bullshit, and they get removed by the other mods for breaking the rules. However, it always gets thrown back on me. It must be me removing things, or me paying the other mods! It's just so fucking ridiculous. I would not have even had to get into this industry if everyone else was doing things correctly! Other companies create competing subreddits to post their propaganda, then PM people here to try and get them to come over there. If I point it out, it's just me censoring people and spreading lies. If I stay out of it altogether, people say the whole sub is run by me. Is it really so much for me to ask for fucking validated scientific proof of claims these companies are making?!? People should care about this shit! You are putting this stuff in your bodies! The scientific validity of the analytical testing used to prove things are correct and pure should matter to all of you, but sometimes it feels like it only matters to me. People would rather save $5 on a bottle of their chosen nootropic than to know for certain things are properly tested and pure. If I bring it up, I am just spreading fear to try and gain market share. If I don't, people stop caring. It's exhausting being the one that everyone turns to for literally everything. I can't fight everyone forever. So today I choose the fights that I get in, and stay out of the rest.

That's not to say I am doing less. Faaaaaar from it. I am doing more than I ever have to push my original mission: to advance the analytical and scientific standards of the entire industry. I am just not talking about it as much on /r/Nootropics. I post about things more on /r/NootropicsDepot, and focus on actual results. The shit we are doing in our lab is insane! We are doing chemistry that nobody else in the world is doing, much less competitors in the industry. We brought a lot of our method development in-house, and are doing methods that no other lab could do for us; or are doing them in different ways to be more accurate or looking at compounds not traditionally talked about. Even then, we were limited by the availability of reference standards out there. You know what we are doing now? We are making our own reference standards. I got sick of always relying on other labs to provide standards for us to be able to test things, so I am building our own analytical standard development lab, and I have hired PhD chemists to solve the problems. In the past, if there were no reference standards available for a specific thing, we could not properly assay it. We would just have to wait for another lab to come along to make them before we could do proper analytical chemistry on it. I did not find that solution to be good enough, so we started to build out the ability for us to do it. This shit is expensive! I don't think people fully realize just how expensive the things I am talking about are. We are talking millions and millions of dollars. I am likely going to spend tens of millions of dollars on our lab by the time we are done with my plans. I may never break even on that, but that was the entire mission that I promised people I would champion back in 2013. I am not just living up to my promise. I am pushing it far beyond even I thought I could back when I started. I am going to drag the analytical standards of this industry to where I think they need to be; kicking and screaming, if I have to.

So I am still here. We are doing some VERY cool shit in the background. I many not be bringing out tons of novel synthetic nootropics or peptides like I was in the past, but we are doing way cooler shit now anyway, IMO. When I was forced to really pivot to naturals, I figured it would not be as exciting as the peptides and other things, but I was wrong. The chemical diversity in nature is INSANE! The science behind it all is way more advanced than I ever thought before, and solving these issues are some of the most rewarding experiences of my life. We truly are pushing things forward every single day. I may not be on /r/Nootropics posting all the time, but we are always working to further the mission I set out years ago.