I could have highlighted this whole thing.

I got the big bonus that first month. Then $50. This month, $100. It's FREE FUCKING MONEY. Medium has paid me around $800 over the last three months to write whatever the hell I feel like. Or I could have published to a personal blog to an audience of crickets.

Half the writers on Medium need to toughen the fuck up. Another quarter need to stop thinking they're Tolstoy because they've cracked the viral code. Rampant egos abound.