'The walls are closing in now. Prepare for a lifetime of ignorance. You will have to ask someone else what’s going on. Someone who is one of those rare things: a subscriber.
'“Poppy, where were you when the first dog was elected president?”
'“Granny, what was it like when we first made contact with alien life?”
'You’ll have to say to them gently, softly, “To be honest, I have no fucking clue. I was out of free articles.”'
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/youve-read-your-last-free-article-such-is-the-nature-of-mortality