Yup. Have a story with 82 reads and about $1. Another with 242 reads, $4.

It's the group scammers flooding with content porn. They are swarming. They build read4read groups, FB groups, telegram groups. They build a pool, produce shit content and read each other. The algo sees reads and activity and they are taking the loot.

Thousands of these locusts harvesting on Medium honey.

Same with boosts. I was steady, over 40 Boosts, now maybe 2 in the last 4-5 months.

Too bad I love writing here, and it's the best of worst for fiction.