Look, You Won’t Get Rich on Medium
Well, you might…
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5 min readJul 1, 2024
October 2020 is when I started my journey on Medium. During my wonderful time here, I’ve seen an abundance of changes:
- A change of CEO
- One-off bonuses up to $500
- Referrals come and go
- New ‘story boost’ algorithm implemented
- Distribution algorithms come and go
- AI stories become a huge problem
- Huge publications shut down including those that pay for submission
- Top writers come and go
I’ve likely forgotten a few, but it’s been one big party for the past few years.
Out of all the hundreds of stories I’ve read, there’s one consistent topic with a certain form of title that consistently appears on my recommended reads, no matter what day of the week.
“How I Made X During My First Month on Medium”
“How I Made Thousands of Dollars on Medium”
These stories do not occur as often as they used to, but they are certainly still being published.
Why is this? Because money is what dragged most of us here in the first place. I do not speak for every writer because I understand not everyone is part of the Medium Partner…
