The money tied is one thing of course, as it tends to "corrupt" minds in many ways, as people who think they don't care - find out they do.
It is funny how some people try to comeback and explain it away as a hack or something - it is nonsense. I get that people have breakdowns, but really - so many? :D
Guess when you don't have an outlet for frustration anything and anyone will do? And then you realise you stuffed up royally but being wrong is something that must absolutely be avoided at any and all cost no matter what so...I got hacked? XD
🙂 The real money value is a strange beast here. On one hand, it could corrupt one's authenticity, both in blogging and in social behavior online. But on the other hand, no chance that I will take the time & effort to create something relatively meaningful every day without the hope that, one day, blogging could pay me a trip to some tropical place, ad example. Where I could search for some weird insects that I have never seen before and blog about them from there. 😀I mean, no chance in 2019, at my beginning on the platform. Nowadays, I think I'll be doing it even for fun only, and to have a place where I can store and organize my thoughts & photographs while learning English along the way. But knowing that there is some money in the future, or in the present in the case of an emergency, is a great thing. And a bit of a miracle too. I couldn't imagine something like this before I stumbled upon it while rambling around the Internet. Never thought that online activities could bring me something valuable in a so direct way. I was mostly happy that platforms like Facebook don't make me pay to use them, back then, before 2019. Many people I know still have that mentality. The idea that what you create online can have some value was pretty revolutionary to me.