My First 11 Months On Medium: Why Have My Earnings Gone Down?

What the bloody hell is going on?

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I’ve been writing on Medium since July 2021. I was excited by my early success when I suddenly earned almost $300 in my fourth month. Then my earnings peaked at nearly $400 in my sixth month.

I hoped they would continue in an upward trend, but they didn’t. Why?

Let’s first look at my monthly earnings:

• July 2021: $0.71
• August 2021: $7.75
• September 2021: $27.11
• October 2021: $295.64
• November 2021: $311.79
• December 2021: $398.53
• January 2022: $287.89
• February 2022: $285.39
• March 2022: $384.27
• April 2022: $284.83
• May 2022: $149.27

Plotted on a graph, they look like this:

So, there was a rapid rise in the autumn, a peak in December, a second peak in March, and then it has dropped off since…