The Benefits of Being Shadow Banned on Medium
We all want to go viral. But there are plus sides to remaining smalltime.
My first article on Medium went viral. It was an accident, really. I guess I should have known better, but honestly, I just needed an anonymous space to write my feelings.
I won’t go into detail, but it was regarding Trump and the Church, and you can read the rest here if you’re genuinely curious.
No one knew me here on Medium. I hadn’t written anything, and I didn’t know any writers here. I was more of a lurker, reading articles here and there, and wondered if this might be a place I’d like to start sharing my thoughts. So when I felt strongly enough to write my heart, Medium became the perfect place to share it.
And then the emails started. Overnight, my inbox was filled with people who had “clapped” or commented — by the hundreds and thousands. I checked the stats, and the graph was going bonkers. And each day garnered more money than I knew I could get from an article on Medium.
It also garnered a lot of hate mail. I received comments from all walks of life on that article, and I made the conscious decision to not respond to any of them, good or bad, because what I wrote was so raw to me. I stood by what I wrote, but it left me feeling too…
