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My Hall of Shame — Worst Earning Articles on Medium

Check out these articles and see if you can learn from my mistakes!

Marcus Musick
3 min readDec 17, 2023
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Not all blog posts on Medium are destined for success. One article might reach thousands of views, while another reaches three people. Looking back at your older and less successful articles can help you learn from past mistakes.

I’ve created a top-five list of my worst-earning articles on Medium. I also decided to exclude any Dallas Cowboys articles. The Cowboys may be America’s Team, but they don’t have much of a following on Medium.

A top-five list also isn’t very interesting if all the articles are about the Cowboys in 2020, which was a season and a year from hell!

Here are the top five lowest-earning articles in my Hall of Shame for Medium.

1) Guardian of the Shadows ($0.19) — October 1, 2023

The first story that tops the list is “Guardian of the Shadows.” I created this story with the help of ChatGPT and added a twist…

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Marcus Musick
Marcus Musick

Written by Marcus Musick

Freelance Writer for almost 8 years. Founder of Never Stop Writing. You can reach out to me at https://substack.com/@marcusmusick.

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