While Remi seems like a great writer, it's implausible for anyone to gain 168K followers in just three months unless 99.9% of them are fake. I've been on this platform for five years as one of its most active members and a prolific writer with over 2,000 stories and a substantial social media following. It took me years of hard work—30 boosted stories and many viral ones—to reach 100K followers. However, since Medium's recent changes, my growth has stalled completely; I haven’t gained a single new follower in the last seven months, as if I’m in distribution jail. There are thousands of writers crafting wonderful stories, yet many struggle to gain even a thousand followers in a year. With all due respect, I’m genuinely concerned about how Medium's leadership allowed such a misleading story to be published from an employee account. As a friend and ardent supporter of Medium, I’m deeply disappointed. This kind of narrative does a disservice to the platform. If I were in charge, I would have had it removed immediately to preserve the trust of our genuine, hard-earned readers within this great community.