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Medium Has Stopped Paying Writers More Than A Tiny Little Percentage of What It Was Previously Paying Them.
So what?
Last year I wrote a story asking writers what they’d do if Medium stopped paying writers. Would they stick around? Howl with outrage? Stick pins into their Tony Stubblebine dolls? Decamp to Substack?
I was surprised by how many writers responded that they’d continue writing on the platform even if Medium stopped paying us.
Our January stats make me wonder if my essay might have given Coach Tony some ideas.
Why?
Because Medium isn’t paying its writers this month. Every human writer I know or am aware of is suddenly making bupkas.
Or very close to bupkas.
How do I know?
Because everybody is complaining about it.
And because when Scott Lamb wrote a post about Medium’s valiant fight against bots and spammers but neglected to mention the fact that all our earnings had just gone into the…