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Here’s A Medium Success Milestone We Can All Get Behind

Forget the “I’m in the 7% club” braggers and try this instead

There is so much I love about Medium — the variety of voices, the honesty, the encouraging comments, and the sense of community.

But I dislike one thing more than anything else — the bragging.

How I Made $5,000 In My First Month On Medium

How I Became A Millionaire In 6 Months

How I Got 1,000 Followers In 3 Weeks

Spare me, please.

If you have achieved these things, well done, go off and enjoy them but don’t make the rest of us feel like failures when we’re trying our best.

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The New Brag

Something I have noticed popping up more is the “I’m in the 7%” post.

Medium publishes generalized member earning figures, and people have picked up on this one stat that only 7% of all Medium writers make more than $100 per month on the platform.