This Writer Made $19,000 From a Single Medium Article

I am shocked, mouth wide open, this is big!

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Today I spent my twenty-minute break reading through Medium articles from one of the Medium Facebook groups. I was shocked when I saw a post from

S M Mamunur Rahman

. The post featured a screenshot that left my mouth wide open.

I have never seen an article make almost $20,000; this shows that one article can change your life.

I talk about this all the time. I tell people to keep writing and keep posting content on social media; one post could change your whole entire life.

$20,000 can build a house in some countries! $20,000 is a deposit on an apartment. Depending on where you live, it’s big money!

The question I have is, why did this article gain so much attention? I have a few ideas; however, sometimes the Medium algorithm smiles on your article and gives it all the attention to push it from being an average earner to an astronomical earner.

Here is the article that went mega-viral with more than 500k views.