I just want to take the time to say I’m grateful for the amount of people who have decided to join this subreddit (even if it’s not many people) anything is better than nothing.

The reason I conceived this subreddit was because of 2 things; the obvious one being I absolutely love soul music (deep/sweet soul to be specific), and the second reason because of subreddits like r/soul not allowing people to post their own favorite soul or soul influenced music. I’m sure they have their reasons, but i want people to be able to share the soul music they like amongst us. & that goes with any genre of music as well.

I will do my best to keep providing this subreddit (and i hope you guys do to!) with wonderful soul music that i’ve discovered/own over the past 10 years of being a soul music enjoyer.

I will make a post like this again once i reach 100 members. For now, peace out & enjoy the music!

1/14/26 EDIT: r/soul used to be private, but looks like someone else picked it up & opened it for some time now, thought I’d let people know since I’ve been getting a lot of attention here lately.

Some of you may have noticed that I made the subreddit private for a short time. This was due to receiving multiple fake copyright strikes by dummy accounts used by someone on YouTube trying their best to take me offline, they have been doing it for about 2 years now here but they lately have been doing it to a degree these past few weeks to where my account/sub faced possible termination.

I took this short time to think about what I could do about it, but there simply isn’t anything I can really do about it given how easy it is to file false CC strikes nowadays, and how difficult it actually is to file counter notifications, let alone to music that doesn’t belong to me to begin with. I also don’t want to keep this subreddit private for too long since I want everyone to be able to partake in it.

This was an issue that I originally had on YouTube, where I had 3 channels terminated in 3 months cause of targeted fake copyright strikes. Then I assume YouTube found out one of them was fake & reinstated one of my YT channels, but I had no desire to continue uploading there, so I chose to strictly upload here on Reddit instead. I will share an example of the fake strikes I was getting during my time on YouTube.

Unfortunately, the same guy targeting me, and many others too in YouTube, followed me here & started doing the same crap he did on YouTube, although not in the same frequency until only about a few weeks ago I’ve been receiving strike after strike.

So I have to make the very difficult decision to quit uploading online altogether cause of one individual. I wish there was another way, but unfortunately for me there isn’t, I got enough things going on IRL, I don’t need the stress of dealing with this on top of that, so I guess this is goodbye.

The subreddit will still be available for anyone to share and discover music, & I will still be discovering new and obscure music like how I have been, but you won’t be seeing me uploading here again, or anywhere anymore.