Ah Heck!
Most New/Veteran Medium Writers Are Douches.
You’re a douche!
Before I start venting, I’ve placed a secret message within this post. Find it and leave it in the comments 😜 (HINT: After scenario 1).
Also I disappeared for almost two months. Be sure to look out for the article explaining the whole shabang.
Let me briefly mention the click bait, low quality work, and people putting a prominent writer’s name in their title as a way to encourage more clicks. I think enough people have already addressed this take on the matter, and I will try to share only why I think Medium is close to becoming a cesspool.
Here is an author who may share a similar sentiment. I found her when I was venting, in a google search because I thought the work I was reading was garbage.
Their name has appeared in a title. Why? So when someone searches the said name on Medium, these lazy morons’ articles come up. The articles offer no advantage to the reader; you learn nothing except who is a kiss arse.
Above quote by Sam H Arnold.
Sam goes over things like articles making absurd claims, such as making $10k on Medium but not showing proof. etc.
Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean garbage as in bad grammar, or choice of content. Nope. Not at all. Even my grammar isn’t the best at times.
I left high school a long time ago and quite frankly, I make zero efforts in my being an English teacher. I simply want to communicate in a way, that my readers will at least get the point of my communication.
So if I mistakenly put hair rather than here, lol, I guess you’ll get the point. Since you’re so smart to catch my error, then I have no doubt in your level of competence to catch my intent. Medium is a family with enough room for everyone.
By the way, I was today years old when I learned that “High School” is two words. Hopefully that sinks in.
Maybe the matter is, I am attracted to garbage, so the algorithm is now trained to show me garbage. Maybe there are some really great topics out there, in my interested niche, that were written with the reader in mind. Maybe I will find them soon.
What I really think though, is, it’s about how you’ve found Medium that determines what type of writer you become.
Hear me out.
Scenario 1:
Offer: You came across the initial seed, “Medium” in a video, blog post, or course, and it was offered to you as a great platform to make some money. Yasssssss cha-ching!
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Harvest: You are now an eager misguided fool, soon to be separated from your folly. Thou art no more brain than stone. Spewing hot garbage from your Derriere, your main intention is making the jackpot. You also await to be exalted and our hearts and laurels won.
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Scenario 2:
Offer: You came across the initial seed, “Medium” in a video, blog post, or course, and it was offered to you as a great platform for building a community.
Harvest: You are now an eager writer, ready to connect with a community you can relate to, or another form of commonality. Deep thought has gone into your communication with your community, (your articles) and there is overall respect for your fellow Medians.
Hopefully you’re starting to get where I am coming from if that wasn’t the case already.
Take the time to get to know why Medium was created so you can make sure you are a part of that vision.
Every story can be thoughtfully approached. No voice is bigger than the other and the difference is the same.
Off topic for a bit. (Forgive me. I have attention issues). That old saying, “our difference is the same” or “same difference,” was a saying that made me want to bang my head against a wall when I was younger. It screamed oxymoron. Like seriously, how can something be different yet the same? No one will explain to me, in a simple way, so I can understand the moral of the saying.
So before I grant you the pleasure of going off somewhere to pull your hair out, here is an explanation from Meriam;
Definition of same difference.
— used to say that two things are not really different in any important way. “They lost 100 games last year.” “Actually, they only lost 96 games.” “Same difference.
Key Takeaways;
- Acknowledge and appreciate Medium as a community.
- Try to, at least briefly familiarize yourself with the founding vision of why Medium was created to begin with.
- Respect your community.
- The seeds we plant on Medium today, will determine what we will harvest tomorrow. Let it be a prominent expectation to come to medium to find quality work.
As always, thank you so much for your time. I hope you’ve been enlightened in some way. Hopefully I am not now, nor will I ever become those douches I rant about.
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