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THE FUNKY BUNCH
The Shit Hit the Fan and It Splattered All Over My Feed
On poopie writers run amok
I told myself that I wasn’t going to write another story about crap “writers” on Medium but I lied. To myself. And it won’t be the first time.
This is why I feel the need to call out the absolute stink of poorly-written, clickbait, non-stories proliferating on Medium: Because the writers I follow are nearly impossible to find without my hunting them down. And I’m angry and frustrated about that. What happened to my peeps? My community?
Instead, my feed is Turd City, redolent with the stink of atrocious spewings from human bots.
I tried to plow through the muck. Truly, my friends, I did, in the hope there’d be at least one jewel within the discharge that would make me say, “Ahhhh.”
Instead, I found myself re-reading sentences consisting of undecipherable gibberish.
Look, Medium. I’m all for diversity, but is it too much to ask to publish stories that are, at the very least, legible? Written by individuals with a knowledge of basic English?
Now before some of you get your panties in a wad for that, listen up. If, due to my commitment to supporting other writers, I attempt to read stories by newcomers and…
