Medium Sucks Hairy Ballsacks Now!

I thought this website was going to be my saving grace. Then it all had to go to shit.

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I’m sick and fucking tired of all these whoopasses suggesting you can earn thousands of bucks a day from writing online. Any get rich quick scheme should never be believed, and you must be suspicious of anyone promising you wealth with little upfront effort.

I mean, I joined Medium in hopes of making SOME income. Maybe not enough to supplant an actual salary from a career. But enough to like, get my groceries with it.

I think I speak for everyone who is sick and tired of seeing pennies for their hard effort.

I get it. We aren’t entitled to shit. We are competing against hundreds of thousands of other writers who all joined Medium dripping with excitement over the allure of getting paid to write online while smoking a dank ass joint in their three-day-old underpants.

But maybe we can all agree, did we expect Medium to be this crappy? No!

And Medium’s gotten shittier by the day all summer. It’s like even the top writers here are wondering where the fuck their views went and are considering moving their writing elsewhere.

But where to go? Vocal?

Or should I take an even greater stab in the dark and submit pieces to paying publications with absolutely NO guarantee I’ll get published?

I have saved countless lists of publications like HuffPost, AP, and Pitchfork that claim to pay decently for accepted pieces. But how much effort will be necessary in order to win such a highly coveted opportunity to be published on any of these sought after websites?

I’m running dry on faith. I am becoming sober from the drunken state of delusion of grandeur.

Word of the wise — don’t believe anything you read online. All these success stories are OUTLIERS, people! The mere possibility doesn’t necesarily mean jack diddly squat in reality.

Let’s face it. Writing online is taking a huge leap of faith, into the dark labyrinth called ‘chance’. With a lot of confidence, time on your hand, and perhaps, yes, inherent skill, you can make it. But most on Medium will never scrape a…