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We’re still here. We’ve survived the decline of print and made our home online. We resisted the pivots to video and an overreliance on social platforms. We’ve taken big swings that nearly sunk us (but were damn fun to try) like the Paste Rock n Reel festival, the Paste DVD and the overly luxurious Paste Quarterly. But those big swings also produced the original Paste Sampler, Paste Studio Sessions, Obamicon and the internet’s first streaming guides. Most recently we’ve gambled on providing a home that cares about the tremendous writing and important legacy of three other great websites—Jezebel, Splinter and now, AV Club.

But the current state of online journalism is bleak, and we can’t do this depending on declining ad revenues alone. We need your help, and that’s why we’re asking you to consider subscribing to Paste. So many of you have kept us going in the past, from your original subscriptions to the print magazine, to the Save Paste Campaign that accidentally helped invent crowdfunding, to the mPlayer and our short-lived return to the world of physical media.

For $8/month or $80 for the year, we’re offering a new subscriber-only feature every day, including the return of Film School, our Time Capsule reviews of classic albums, the Hear Me Out column defending pieces of pop culture that have gotten a bad rap, the TV MVP highlighting an overlooked performance on the small screen and much, much more. We’ve also brought back our comments section for you to continue the conversation right on our site.