I frankly can’t claim to understand how any of this works.

I’ve made quite a few pieces of original content at this point, a couple of which took weeks of research on top of hours of content creation, and I have yet to have a single post top $1. Many of these posts get upvoted over 10 times, but I still wind up with under $1.

Then I see all these guys that post a pic of a jar of herb, which they can do 40 times a day if they work at a dispensary, often with no words other than the strain name. Not even a basic effects review, and these guys are often getting close to or over $100 per picture?

Same with my vaporizer reviews. I write one, get good comments, and it gets upvotes, but I’m still at under $1.

Then the next day someone else decides to do the same thing and for some reason they just pulled $100 off of 5 votes writing about a vaporizer that is older and even less relevant than the one I reviewed. Wtf.

And it’s not just one guy. I see your posts, which are legit, and then I see other people post the same “pretty picture of weed that could be anything” getting paid $90 when you’re at under $3.

If I can’t get paid any more for legit content creation that took weeks than I can for curation, I’m gonna mostly stick with curation...