Sayonara Medium! We’re Breaking Up
Perhaps one day our paths will cross again.

Well Medium, the time has finally come. After 3 and a half years of reading, writing, highlighting, clapping and wrecking my brain trying to figure out just what the fuck was going on at Medium HQ, I’ve decided to take my leave and explore new lands.
It has been fun. There’ve been ups and downs. Successes and failures. Smiles and frowns. But over the past few months shit just ain’t been the same. Something’s different. The spark just ain’t there. The Medium experience I once loved and cherished now feels dead, flat and lifeless —like Britney Spear’s ‘revived’ music career.
Where’s the character gone Medium? And the charm of the good old days? Cus I just can’t seem to find it anymore.
What I can find, however, is an abundance of shit from wanna be ‘influencers’ telling me how much they’ve earned this month, how they manage to gain so many followers and how they’ve mastered the skill of writing mediocre Medium articles — all of which usually contain fuck all evidence to back up their claims and are often just things they’ve read but not yet experienced (all except for the mediocrity of course).
I’m sorry — not sorry — to say the repetitiveness of it all gets pretty old, pretty quickly and does nothing to spark motivation, inspiration or conversation.
I need more Medium! Give me something to work with! Give me that buzz I once felt when logging on in the past; where I had no idea what strange, entertaining or enlightening titillation I may encounter. It’s just not the same.
Yea, times have changed and perhaps I have too. Such is life.
So, in moving forward. I’ve decided to spread my wings, explore elsewhere and see what other options the online world of blogging/writing has to offer.
Don’t worry too much though Medium — I doubt you were — this is not a goodbye as such, more of a ‘see ya later’ kinda thing as I’m sure there will come a day when I return to the platform ready to reconcile.
But for now, I’m off. My first stop, Substack; where I have set up a brand new profile and publication page where I will be posting to this week — Check it out here.
Good luck Medium, I know you’ll eventually sort your shit out and perhaps one day our paths will cross again.
Until next time, sayonara 👋.