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I Lost the Medium Writers Challenge Too, but I’m Not Whining About It
Some people are just salty. Let it go and move on.
In usual fashion, whenever a big contest of significant monetary prizes is involed, the haters come out of the woodwork as soon as the winners are announced. The recent Medium Writers Challenge is no exception. I have been reading the comments on social media and many people are simply salty.
In some cases, the jealousy is downright atrocious.
Some people are complaining about the length of the winning articles being too long. Some are complaining that the grand prize winner shouldn’t have also won for the category. Others are saying they are underwhelmed by the writing quality of the winning essays.
And many are angry that the winner wasn’t a previous writer on Medium and apparently owns a business and therefore isn’t deserving of winning because they don’t “need” Medium’s money, while others do. One went so far as to write an article saying that the winning essay should have been disqualified. The list goes on.
But not too many of these bitter losers are willing to admit that maybe they didn’t win the…
