Quitting Medium? One Last Thing Before You Write Your Rant

Summary

The article is a satirical piece addressing writers who are considering leaving Medium and writing a rant about it, suggesting they tag the author and link to his special quitting Medium landing page.

Abstract

The author of the article humorously addresses a common scenario where successful Medium writers decide to leave the platform to pursue other ventures. These writers often pen a final essay expressing their disillusionment with the platform, criticizing the current state of readership and the topics being written about. The author playfully suggests that before these writers publish their farewell rants, they should consider tagging him and linking to his own Medium landing page, which is dedicated to the topic of quitting Medium. This tongue-in-cheek recommendation is made with the acknowledgment that the author's content is not competitive to the departing writers and serves as a means to emulate their success.

Opinions

The author believes that writers who decide to leave Medium often attribute their departure to the platform's changing dynamics and the perceived decline in the quality of content.
There is an opinion that these departing writers tend to romanticize their past successes on Medium while criticizing current trends and writers.
The author implies that these writers may be hypocritical, as they often started by writing about popular topics that were lucrative at the time.
The author suggests that the writers' complaints about readers' preferences and the platform's evolution are somewhat ironic, given their own past behaviors and successes on Medium.
The author is self-aware and uses humor to point out the cyclical nature of Medium's writer community, where new writers rise to fill the void left by those who depart.

No worries, it’s a quick one

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Hey There,

You decided to quit Medium because you got enough clout and followers here to start a more lucrative business elsewhere. (Good for you).

You’ll come back from time to time, at least every six months, to make sure your old stories are still under the Medium Partner Program and earning you some $$$.

Before you go, you’ll write a philosophical essay (rant) about your ups (before) and downs (now) on the platform.

You’ll mention how sad it is that people are reading what they want instead of your stories.

You’ll go as far as saying that what people want to read is shitty writing and/or uninteresting topics. Of course, you’ll emphasize that this philosophical essay of yours (shitty written rant) is ironically fully in line with one of the uninteresting topics you despise so much (and keep on reading). But it will be OK because you wrote it.

You’ll also mention that new writers are all writing about the same topics and trying to make money instead of writing for the love of the art. You’ll fail to mention that these were your favorite topics at the beginning (and still are). You’ll also fail to mention they brought you a shitload of money because of the lack of competition at the time.

You’ll say you don’t recognize the platform anymore, particularly your stats page, where the numbers are ten times lower than before. However, you won’t reflect on your recent lack of creativity and incapacity to find new topics or new angles to write your stories.

Fine by me. This is all fair game.

I would like to ask you for one last thing before publishing your rant about quitting Medium.

Could you tag me? Maybe add a link to my special quitting Medium landing page made for the occasion? It’s full of shitty written stories about the most non-interesting topic of all (Medium). It’s no competition for you (you’re leaving, remember?), and it will help me be more like you (a personal goal).

Here’s the friend link; and the friendlier link:

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Quitting Medium? One Last Thing Before You Write Your Rant

No worries, it’s a quick one

You Made The Right Choice!

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