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Two weeks ago, I told you about the witch hunt happening in a Facebook group that I’m in.

I didn’t share the group name or the names of the people carrying the pitchforks.

But they’re back at it again.

More on that in a moment.

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It’s The Food Bloggers Central Facebook Group

I have never seen a group of people so butthurt by other people’s success to quite this extreme.

They spend all this time looking for sites that they deem not worthy of being monetized by Mediavine, just so they can report the sites.

But, they don’t want anyone to know that it’s them.

I don’t normally engage with stupid people in internet comments, but I thought maybe I could be a voice of reason. Maybe help them realize that they don’t know beyond a shadow of a doubt that any of these sites are guilty of their accused “crimes.”

Cause these dumbasses have no way of knowing what anyone else is really doing.

That went over about as well as you’d expect when the reality is likely just someone being mad that they’re not monetized by Mediavine while another site is.

I love the assertion that I’m spending time in Facebook groups delivering untruths.

What I really don’t understand though is if their sites are in Journey, which they seem to be, then why does someone else’s site in Journey have any effect on them? AI or not. It’s not like Mediavine has a pool of money that they split between all sites and fewer sites means more money for you.

So, if you’ve got a food blog monetized by Mediavine and get hit with an accusation of using AI content and images (cause images was mentioned by one of them), then it was likely one of these jealous bloggers.

Another member of the group also tried to reason with them and suggested their time would be better spent focusing on their own sites. lol. I suspect that’s going to go over well.

Coming up…

Upcoming topics: one of the many things I’m working on: ecommerce, what’s working with websites, running an agency, AI music, Amazon KDP books, and more.

If you have a topic you want covered just reply and let me know.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

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