Thank you for sharing your insights here, Felicia. I hopped on the bandwagon when everyone else and their dog, cat, and fish seemed to--in March of 2020. It feels unfair--I was healing from a breakdown and there were all these new pandemic freelancers here--but I have writing degrees, experience, etc.

I've had the kind of success that means $100 a month usually, but nothing like a real paycheck. I produce tons of content that isn't niched.

I'm curating my feed to about 150 writers to follow and that helps.

It does feel like had I been a bruh, bro, or female brogie, whatever that is, I'd have had a better chance at making it here.

I'm not giving up on writing, but one thing about being on the platform for almost 2 years is that it's made me aware how much I despise content writing.

I'm a creative writer. And, I'm so glad to find creatives like Danielle Loewen, Hogan Torah, Lindsay Rae Brown, and Sarah Paris. Creatives are still here, but it's hard as hell to get any traction. That's frustrating--and that's from the Age of Empathy "owner" (1.9k readers) and a writer with 2.6k followers--not totally shabby.

Okay, thank you for letting me talk with you! Off to buy one of your fiction books now! Glad this popped up to remind me. :D