How To Become Medium Famous
The Five Pillars Of Medium
New writers to this site are often concerned with how to gain traction and increase followers, likes and claps. Inevitably they’re hoping to make cold hard cash. As a positivity coach and lifestyle advisor (to be clear, I am neither of those things) I do so enjoy helping people reach their potential (I really don’t), so here are some helpful hints from a seasoned Medium aficionado.
Since Medium disproportionately represents wealthy, clueless synthetic leftist neoliberals and conceited narcissists utterly divorced from the concerns of genuine left wing, working class and average people, you should try to fit into one of the five main Medium “famous” categories if you want to find yourself a Top Writer in no time.
The categories are:
- Doomcryers extraordinaire lecturing about a much anticipated apocalypse and reporting on the hoped for annihilation of humanity with a fatalistic air of self satisfaction. At first, I quite enjoyed the work of one particular Medium famous Chicken Little, before cottoning on to the fact that he’s really just a miserable sod in need of a nice cup of tea and a lie down.
- Self-proclaimed gurus lecturing from the incognisant safety of their entitled sanctimony.
- Shamfem manpanderers who have reworked, mangled and diluted the definition of feminism till they actually think waxing their bodies entirely smooth and throwing their tassles in the air as they dangle from a pole sucking cock means they’re empowered feminists.
- Okay Dokey Wokey Blokeys who support whatever they’re told to by the Cancelites;
- And last, but by no means least a few who apparently live in some sort of Days Of Our Lives Hellscape, lurching from one hideous, implausible personal catastrophe to the next.
Channeling the sort of trite tripe favoured by the MamaMia site will always gain you reads and claps on Medium.
Then again, if you’ve never read anything on the MamaMia site, you may want to spare yourself the agony.
To gain readership, you could also try writing posts complaining about other “famous” Medium bloggers. For extra points, name them personally and then you can all vie for the prized Victimhood Baton in the new Olympic heat “Peevish Feelpinions”.
By following these simple steps, you will almost certainly improve your standing on Medium.
Disclaimer: Medium famous isn’t famous. Gaining a large following on Medium will mean nothing in the real world. You’re not a celeb because you have a large following on social media. Medium is a social media site filled with bloggers, an occasional celeb cameo, and the odd genuine writer struggling against the tide of flotsam.
Always remember this is not the New York Times, nothing any of us write here matters at all, we’re changing nothing and none of us wil be remembered for our work here. Outside of the blogosphere, publishing on Medium is considered slightly more prestigious than my Wix.com site and is not a high spot on a writer’s resume.
(If you bring a large following TO medium that might be a different matter. I’ve seen some huge names on here throw an article or two around. But they were already famous).
So, even if you do make more from the site than the couple of hundred dollars a month most of us make, you’ll spare yourself much personal angst if you remember that outside of this platform, nobody has heard about you or gives a shit about your opinions.
You’re welcome.
Aim for an attitude of gratitude.
And remember: A positive affirmation a day keeps the moody blues away.
Alison Tennent has been freely and abundantly sharing her inspirational thoughts on wellbeing and personal growth for over 4 decades.
Alison Tennent, Queensland, Australia, July 2021 Copyright Alison Tennent 2021, all rights reserved. Scottish by birth, upbringing and bloodline, Australian by citizenship.
