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Where Am I? Am I Forgotten?

My ER and Earnings Said, “My Medium community is missing, or I am invisible.”

Mehak Adlakha
Write A Catalyst
2 min readJan 23, 2025

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What has happened to my fam here on Medium?

Or is something wrong with my account?

Am I invisible, or is it my writing?

These are the questions running through my mind today because my engagement on Medium has significantly dropped.

From an average of 600 to 1,000 claps, it has dropped to just 100–200 — and this happened within a single month!

You can see the difference for yourself:

Before and After of my engagement rate on Medium in a month’s difference. | Screenshotted by the author

As far as I know, the earnings glitch has been resolved, yet my engagement has not improved. Even those who used to engage regularly are not interacting with my stories anymore.

I am genuinely unsure what has happened. Could I have been shadow-banned? But how could that happen without any intimation from Medium?

I haven’t even changed my writing style — if anything, I’ve become more consistent.

I am filled with questions but have no answers.

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Mehak Adlakha
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Written by Mehak Adlakha

27 | Owner of 'The Live. Love. Laugh. Pub' and 'Namaste Tales' | Software Engineer @ Microsoft, India | Life Enthusiast and Explorer

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