Summary

The author expresses dissatisfaction with the current content on Medium, finding it boring and repetitive.

Abstract

The author of the article expresses frustration with the current state of content on Medium, finding it boring and repetitive. They mention that they are tired of reading articles about sadness, heartbreak, depression, and Medium tips. The author also mentions a prompt from Human Parts that asked for frivolous submissions, but found that most of the submissions were heavy and serious. The author feels like an outlier for submitting a frivolous piece about making out. The author also mentions that they are finding it harder to be amused on Medium lately and that their stats have been plummeting.

Opinions

The author finds the current content on Medium to be boring and repetitive.
The author is frustrated with the lack of frivolous and entertaining submissions on Medium.
The author feels like an outlier for submitting a frivolous piece about making out.
The author is finding it harder to be amused on Medium lately.
The author's stats have been plummeting.

Medium is boring AF right now.

Someone please save me.

In case you don’t know, AF stands for “as fuck.” I think the acronym is a young people thing but I happen to love it because I can use it without typing the word fuck. Why go blatant when I can be obscure?

Is it just me or is everyone bored AF with the content coming through their Medium feeds lately?

I’m bored to actual tears. I’m not sure how many more articles I can read about sadness, heartbreak, depression, and Medium tips.

The other day I mistyped the word LISTICLE into a document and the suggested correction came up as TESTICLE. I died laughing. That was certainly not boring.

Can someone please write an article about how listicles compare to testicles? I’d like to read that right now.

Also the other day, the newest Human Parts prompt came out and I loved it. I expected to see a whole lot of entertaining, and hopefully lighthearted submissions about what HP actually asked for.

They asked for frivolous so I thought it would be entertaining!

But alas, I’ve yet to be entertained by all the heavy bricks dropped under the #HumanPrompt tag. Besides my own submission about making out, nobody else went the frivolous angle. Now I feel like an asshole for being frivolous in a sea of heavy bricks.

I hate ranting on Medium because everyone else does it. But I also hate that I’m finding it a thousand times harder to be amused here lately.

I guess you get what you pay for though. What else can you buy for $5.00? A loaf of bread? Bread isn’t entertaining, although it could be life sustaining if that was the only thing in the fridge.

Having banged my head against boredom wall for weeks now, I would also like to shout out some of the writers who have provided me with entertainment. I can’t recall all the names right now but you’re out there.

If I’ve commented or clapped for you lately, you know who you are. Thank you for making my $5.00 stretch a little further.

With stats plummeting into the pits of hell lately, I’ll probably only earn $5.00 next month so I need it to stretch as far as possible in these hard Medium times.

It’s like a famine up in here.

I swear, if this story gets more claps than my quadruple curation from yesterday I’ll go straight to head office.

(Update — this rant has already surpassed a quadruple curation article).

Okay, I feel better now. Carry on.

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