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airasilver · 2 months ago

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What the fuck?

I only knew about the AI thing, there was a grooming scandal? How many of us didnt know even know it was an organization? I know I didn’t until about a year ago, with the AI thing.

This is crazy.

NaNoWriMo is shutting down

And it's because of them supporting AI 😮‍💨

I don't know how many of you have participated on NaNoWriMo, but I have used it to help me in finding motivation to finish my projects or just to write something, every november I would enjoy the excitment to be part of a famous challenge with other writers

Knowing now that such feeling and online positive interactions will not happen again is just really depressing to me, specially nowadays that it feels everything is about social media and individualistic satisfaction, when art is for consume and not celebration

And the NaNoWriMo organization did break the community trust after showing support to the AI generative even when it was explained as AI was destroying creativity and going against everything that NaNoWriMo represented

I have stopped to engage in NaNoWriMo after the whole AI fiasco, but still I'm sad to see another part of my youth and journey in the internet dying

Anyone else feel the same?

EDIT: I wasn't aware about the other scandals and that's why I only mentioned the AI bullshit the NaNo organization did support, I want make it clear that I'm not sad about specifically the organization shutting down

Some more links:

[writing] Discords, forums and a decade’s worth of allegations: how Nanowrimo ignited a revolution against it [part one]

\[Mods, added forum citations. Hopefully all is good now!\]

Trigger warnings: child abuse, assault, predators, racism, fetishes, ableism, terrorism, bombings, and just plain abuse. This will also include brief mentions of religion.

**Terms used in the Nanowrimo community:**

Nanowrimo: national novel writing month: a writing challenge to write 50k words in November. This is also used to refer to the organisation, a Californian 501c3 that the challenge originates from, with a website and a forum. However the challenge can be done without the organisation. Often called ‘nano’ for short.

Young Writers’ Program: a Nanowrimo run platform aimed at people under 18. A separate site with classrooms and its own separate forum. The forum is for people aged 13-18. Often called ‘YWP’ for short.

Municipal Liasions: community organisers responsible for one region. This could be a city or a country depending on size and population. They help organise local events and mod their regional forums. Municipal Liasions are not paid. There are several hundreds of them. Often called ‘MLs’ for short.

Christian Teens Together: a group on the main Nanowrimo forums, and the largest group on the forums. Despite the name the group is not entirely composed of Christians or teens, however that is where the group originates. The majority of the group are minors. Often called ‘CTT’ for short.

Random Thoughts and Exclamations: the main thread of the YWP forums, basically a general. Often called ‘RTAE’ for short.

Prior to the meltdown, Nanowrimo had around 15 salaried staff. These are collectively referred to as HQ. However, they also have several forum moderators. These receive a $100 check at the end of the year, but are mostly considered volunteers. These mods have no involvement in the main site. However, some staff that worked on the forums were salaried and had main site involvement and so will be considered part of HQ unless stated later on.

**Scam sponsorships.**

In December 2022, a group of Nanowrimo users raised [concerns](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/concerns-regarding-sponsors/486280) about a pair of vanity publishers that had sponsored the Nanowrimo challenge. (A vanity publisher or vanity press is a publisher where the author pays the costs and surrenders a large portion of the rights to their work.) Nanowrimo had promoted discounts for these publishers, Inkitt and Manuscripts, to winners of its challenge. Staff and mods suspended and muted multiple accounts who raised the initial concerns, but eventually allowed a forum thread discussing concerns to remain. One of the affected users explained the concerns as follows:

>Now that I’ve been unbanned, I will try to keep the last 24 hours of thoughts…concise. Inkitt should NEVER have been accepted as a NaNoWriMo sponsor. They have changed business models every few years, and every business model has involved using up the first pub rights of any author who submits, WHICH IS A BIG DEAL, and promising them sketchy ‘prizes’ or ‘contracts’ in return. People who have given them a try also say that getting their content removed is a nightmare and they had to threaten legal action. These are just the starting points. There are blog posts about them from many authors dating back to at least 2016, [including my own](https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2016/05/23/inkitt-scam-spam-no-thank-you-maam/), that are easily discoverable by searching “Inkitt scam.” None of this should ever have happened. That said, it happened. And the mods panicked, and I went and wrote a [whole new blog](https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2022/11/30/on-nanowrimo-inkitt-and-being-an-author/) (which I will update soon to reflect NaNo’s better handling of things today) to warn people away from Inkitt because I wasn’t allowed to do so on the forums. And because I have some audience and writer friends, that got around, and [Victoria Strauss](https://twitter.com/victoriastrauss/status/1598114401818902529) got involved, and eventually we got here.

The following day, the Executive Director responded to the concerns with this message:

>I appreciate everyone’s thoughts and feedback, and want to start with an apology that our vetting process hasn’t met the high values we place on our community care. It shouldn’t have come to this (like so many of you said), but now that it has, we’re taking it as a learning moment to improve our sponsorship processes and find ways to dig deeper into an evaluation of a company. We’ve also ended the sponsorship with Inkitt and Manuscripts. Currently, the vetting process involves talking to writers, editors, or those working in the writing/publishing “ecosystem,” and then interviewing the potential companies. We often have a long-term relationship with a company and work with them year-over-year, but as the writing/publishing landscape changes so dramatically every year, we often find out about new companies and reach out to them or they reach out to us. We will do a more thorough evaluation of these processes and policies as part of our 2023 planning process to see what changes we need to make. Our goal will be to ensure our policies are in line with our organizational values, and to make sure the process is more transparent. For example, we’re discussing how we can ensure that a wider range of community and trusted industry voices are heard in this process, and on that note, we have already asked Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware to act as a consultant. We’re really pleased that she’s generously agreed to this, as this is her area of expertise and her ethical standards are admirably high. Also, she’s been passionately committed to analyzing products and services for writers for so long. We’ll also be sure to consult the resources you’ve already named, such as the various forum threads where you all have been sharing your experiences with companies. Thank you again for raising your concerns. We take your feedback very seriously and center it in our plans to care for the community. I’m not just saying that—this has been a valuable learning moment to help us do a better job of vetting sponsors more thoroughly. Your voices are the most important thing we consider when making decisions—not sponsors, but you. I’m sorry that it hasn’t always felt like that in the past, and hope that we can make sure it does in the future. Like you, we think NaNoWriMo should be a place where writers can come for trusted resources. We’re disappointed in ourselves that we lost that trust, and we hope to regain it. I invite you to send on feedback at any time to .

While Inkitt and Manuscripts were removed as sponsors, it recently emerged that Inkitt was a major donor for Nanowrimo. Some users were beginning to feel that Nanowrimo was protecting their own interests over the interests of their users, which only got worse when new allegations came out the following year.

**Inaction against predators.**

In May 2023, a group of users raised allegations about a moderator of Christian Teens Together. The [allegations](https://nitter.net/Arumi_kai/status/1722007756058574916#m) were that this moderator was luring minors onto a fetish site they ran. The [allegations](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/faq-about-an-ex-nano-mod-allegedly-compromising-minor-safety/573253/2) were sent to the Executive Director and the Director of Programs, but no actions were taken after a month. An FBI report had already been filed, but the fetish site was being scrubbed, suggesting that the staff there had been tipped off after the allegations. The group built a new case and after public pressure, got the moderator removed for violations of the forum Code of Conduct after they started threatening the group and the Nanowrimo organisation offsite. This moderator could be a whole post on their own, and has used sockpuppet accounts to lurk on the forums and has commented on the situation on their tumblr. They are often referred to as Mod X, and will be referred to as such in this essay.

In June, a [thread](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/moderation-forums-culture-feedback/507100) on moderation was opened, and a discussion began about the culture of CTT, where it became clear that Mod X had isolated the group and emotionally abused them. It was also revealed that the CTT had a ‘three strikes and shutdown’ system for a group with over a thousand members. One user explained the problem as follows:

>How the CTT members were given only three strikes for over one thousand people is, frankly, appalling and obscene. I can understand treating them as a group; if you give them all three strikes, that’s over three thousand strikes. But they need more than three. But even with that, hanging that last strike over their head for over six months is unacceptable, and yes, I said it before and I’ll say it again, it is emotionally abusive to tell them that one more strike and they’re getting shut down for over six months. Never knowing who’s going to make the mistake that gets them shut down or when, and worrying about when someone messes up. Worrying that they’re going to be one that messes up and is blamed by the group. Terrified of reporting things because what if that report is the reason their community is shut down?

[More](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/nanowrimo-forum-mod-drama-is-nothing-new-a-story-from-nanowrimo-history-the-mod-that-liked-to-write-explicit-content-with-children/544216) users came forward with grooming allegations, but these posts were frozen and hidden. However, the cat was out of bag, at least on the main forums. And in a [retrospective](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/retrospective-whats-still-happening-here/578010) thread on the 10th of November, a former YWP user spoke up about a similar situation that had happened the month before.

>They did this to the YWP too. When a message was sent outlining evidence of a predator it was ignored for 3 days (iirc) and initially responded with ‘we reviewed this account and found nothing that broke our rules’ only after it was posted publicly on the forums. They did take the account down, but only hours later (once we had made a major fuss with pretty much everyone who knew the situation calling the mods out) and with no further communication for two days, which sent us into a spiral of panic and teens leaving as they didn’t feel safe on the platform.

The following day, the COO responded to this post with:

>Hi there, I wanted to speak to this directly since it relates to a lot of the youth safety issues people are bringing up, and YWP has different systems. First off, we did indeed look into the participant that was flagged on YWP. \[YWP lead\] and \[Director of Programs\] discussed and investigated on Oct. 3; they responded on Oct. 4. Our search into their history and their other social media accounts did not find evidence that they were a predator or someone else than the person they claimed to be. We were wrong to say that nothing crossed the lines set by our codes of conduct, and we should have issued a reminder about those codes. However, no violation crossed the line that would require banning. We kept a close eye on this account following the reports and encouraged participants to follow their guts and keep a wide berth. After the account was suspended due to user flags, we agreed their account should not be reinstated. In the long term, we’re bringing in additional moderators in the YWP forums. Role plays occasionally skirt the codes around keeping it PG and partly in response to this situation we’re adding a volunteer mod next week who will just be monitoring role plays and the forum for personal conversations, where the majority of these flags came from.

This response was immediately torn apart by the adults on the thread, while more members of the YWP started speaking out about what they had been dealing with for years.

**The Wild West of the YWP.**

The YWP had two or three mods, which changed across the years due to differing roles. These were members of HQ, and now have all been fired or quit. These were: a Lead Forums Moderator who resigned in October 2023 and had stopped working with the YWP a while before that, a Community Manager who was put on leave at the beginning of November 2023, and the aforementioned YWP lead and Director of Programs who were either fired or quit in December 2023.

There are three parts to the YWP: the individual users, which are under 18, the classrooms, which are controlled by a teacher and are meant for educational settings, and the forums, which are open to users aged 13-18 whether they’re writing individually or as part of a classroom.

However, investigation revealed that the security of these classrooms are remarkably lax. It only required an email, username and password for an ‘educator’ to set up a classroom, and student accounts didn’t even need an email. Multiple YWP users confirmed that they had used this to gain access to private messages, as the classrooms have a PM feature while the forums did not. On top of this, it was confirmed by a moderator that classrooms are basically unmoderated:

>it's almost impossible to moderate these. There was a rash a few years back of the kids themselves making classrooms and the only way I could track them was to manually go through the admin panel and look for the most recent ones and click. They're almost entirely disconnected from the moderation tools and are completely unmoderated unless someone in one reports something. I actually gave up even trying to patrol the classrooms in any form because there's too many and the admin tools suck.

And on the forums themselves, it only got worse. The moderation often ignored its users, and when they intervened, the intervention often worsened the situation. This got to the point that in August 2022, a group of users held a [strike](https://speak-out.carrd.co/) against the moderation due to neglect and incompetence. However, the problems only continued to grow, and in December 2022, there was a incident of a user faking a disorder and, when called out on it, sending death threats. This user also made accounts in order to impersonate and harass users on the sites. It was not uncommon for users to run others off the site, which, justified or not, was often fueled by lack of mod intervention.

This came to a head in October 2023, when a predator was found and the moderation response was once again inadequate. On the 1st of October, moderation was privately contacted by a group of YWP users about a predator that had been on the forums for two years. After three days with no response and no action taken, the group took the information public and a mass flagging campaign began in order to gain the attention of the mods. And five hours after it began, a response was finally posted by the YWP lead:

>Ні, Thanks for writing to us with your concerns, and for being so thorough keeping track of the places that made you uncomfortable. First of all, I want to say: good on you for following your gut. If you ever run into something online that makes you feel scared or worried or unsafe or just seems a little bit off, it's always okay to back away. Trust yourself, and don't do something that makes you feel uncomfortable, no matter who is asking you. The other moderators and I looked (and are continuing to look) more into this person, and from what we can tell, it seems like they are who they say they are. Nothing in their posts crosses the lines set by our Codes of Conduct (though they do come right up to the line sometimes). Like I said before, you can absolutely draw a boundary and not interact with them anymore. It just means we can't take any action on site besides marking their profile such that we pay extra attention to their posts, as well as the other account you flagged as a potential alt. If we notice anything in the future we can follow up on it more directly. Thank you for being so passionate and thorough about trying to make sure the YWP forums are a safe space, and let me know if you have any questions or want to talk anything through more.

This response was torn apart by the users, and 12 hours later people noticed that the threads the predator created had been taken down. However, there was no comment in the public moderation thread on the situation, and the users had no idea whether the account had been banned or not. This caused a mass panic, and several users pulled back or left the platform due to safety concerns.

Early on the 6th of October, a user tried to goad the moderators into responding to the mess by posting a message to the mods in the official announcements forum, which was supposed to be mod-only:

>There is always an explosion of newbies in November, and you have children as young as 13 here. And your inaction is making the site dangerous. We are being forced to defend ourselves against something we should not be dealing with because you can't be bothered. This is more than inaction. This is dangerous incompetence. And don't respond to this with another 'we'll do better' apology, because they never last. I've seen this cycle too many times. Tell us that he's gone, that we don't have to worry about him, and tell us what you're doing to make sure this doesn't happen again. And stop forcing children to be the adults in your place.

However, this post remained up for around 12 hours. At that point, the moderation decided to close the forums for a week, giving the users only a day’s notice. And when they reopened, they threatened to make the forums for writing topics only. Although they walked this back due to user pressure and claimed it was due lack of staff, it came off to some users as a punishment for complaining.

There were more incidents over the next month, and these were mentioned in the retrospective thread, which came as a complete shock to the adults, who had been told that a large part of the funding was going to the YWP. Some began to call for the moderators to resign:

>I sincerely hope they are all drafting their resignation letters. we won’t even give them grief this time for writing it together and recycling the same wording. they had their chance to listen to their users, to develop action plans and timeline and to publicly respond. they chose not to do that and knowingly let abuse and harm continue on their watches. both here and on ywp. resign or get fired. either way this is no longer their house, they are being evicted.

**The Nanopocalypse.**

The Nanowrimo Board intervened in the evening of the 12th of the November, having been contacted by users in the retrospective thread. They immediately set the main forums to read only barring [threads](https://forums.nanowrimo.org/t/board-response-overview-pausing-the-forums/579464) they made to discuss the many issues. However the YWP forums were not immediately closed, and so the users from the retrospective reported back on RTAE.

Two hours after the main forums were closed, a YWP user received a message from the Director of Programs threatening to ban the user. Moments later this user and two others were temporarily banned from the forums. And the forums exploded on both sides. On the main forums:

>Do something for these YWP kids being banned for speaking up about their abuse.

And on the YWP:

>no cause if you're so threatened by MINORS joking at your expense take a good long look in the mirror

The same user on commented on the main thread:

>Just so yall know, the ywp is honestly going to hell rn. People are getting banned, some of the people who talked to you yesterday got banned for saying enough. I got warnings for saying that adults shouldn’t be threatened by teens making jokes. It’s a really bad situation and a lot of people are stressed and overwhelmed

One user commented on how bad the YWP had gotten as follows:

>FOR REAL !!! i joined when i was 16?? THE FIRST FUCKING THING I DID WAS MODERATE. i had to skip the classic nano ywp cringe newbie stage because i had to swoop into an argument that was obvious a moderator wasn’t going to ever deal with. and i did that for like the year and a half i was on nano. and like i don’t give a shit in the sense it doesn’t hold a candle to being 14 and moderating for three years straight but. the amount of power hierarchies the ywp has because of us who. play mod. it’s stressful and not fun and i would not wish it upon my worst enemies. this might be petty but? i’d pay real money that none of the staff team remembers me despite me doing their jobs since the moment i clicked create account

>i have not seen a single case of someone getting fairly banned, nor of someone problematic and upsetting having consequences for their actions. nano is a weird place because a lot of shit happened offsite (ex; my connection to \[redacted\]. the nanoer who was lying and trauma dumping to me and some of my close friends. that all happened in “adult nano” dms. but we were open about it. and even with multiple call-out posts in places with chats that don’t bury posts often and theoretically ones mods should be checking? nothing was done.) but the guessing game on when mods finally arrive to a scene is awful. the brace for impact everyone collectively did when someone finally showed up? was awful. these are teenagers. and when these teens can’t trust the moderators who’re supposed to be monitoring their website, who are they supposed to trust?

A few hours into the board thread, YWP users called out one of the accounts on the main forum for being a predator. The group confirmed that this person had been removed from the YWP but that they had been allowed to remain on the main site. Users confronted this account directly:

>correct me if i’m wrong (i’m not) but i do remember you being one of (if not the most) manipulative, spiteful, maliciously incompetent people i have ever encountered. do you, perchance, remember all the times you told that little 15 year old the sexual things you wanted to do to her? i remember. i remember everything you said. i might not be able to prove all of it but we know. we didn’t forget. playing dumb won’t save you now, boy.

>don’t you dare sit here and pretend this was an okay thing for you to do. you got suspended but you’re still here talking aren’t you ?? it’s two years old we still have the very same predator (most people active in the lounge in the last year or two \[in the ywp\] knows you. no one who knows you likes you.) roaming the adult site. how is this not an issue that needs to be addressed?

The account was suspended a few days later.

That night, the board confirmed that they were unaware that the YWP was a separate site, and the YWP forums were shut. With no read only mode on the YWP, it erupted into chaos. Users said their goodbyes, and some expressed their anger with the moderation for how they turned out. This led to the Director of Programs threatening to close the forums early, despite the users only having a few hours to say goodbye anyway. One user put it as simply as:

>me when my entire community of the last three years is being ripped away lol

And the last three posts?

>FUCK THE MODS FR

>im gonna miss this website so much. love you all and its not our fault this is happening, it’s the mods stay safe stay amazing and love you all, youre the best. Im so sorry the mods destroyed this. hate that we have to lose this beautiful thing because of them. I have one last thing to say: FUCK. THE. MODS.

>Imao

And with that, the weekend from hell was over.

But the Nanopocalypse had barely begun.

**continued** [**here**](https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1ae33g5/writing_discords_forums_and_a_decades_worth_of/)

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Nanoscandal.com has everything I believe.

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twopoppies · 1 year ago

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So this is a question I’ve had for a while, and since we have some “fresh squeezed” Lime Bike pics today, I’ve decided to throw this out there to see if any of your followers in the UK know the answer. I’ll try to be as succinct as possible because it’s a bit long.

In the US, there are Sponsorship/Ad disclosure laws that are designed to keep the consumer informed if a personality/celebrity (or influencer) is being paid to use or be seen with their product. From what I’ve read, the UK has similar laws. Usually though, when it comes to social media, the person being paid, meaning the personality or the influencer is usually promoting the product on their own platform. Meaning on their own Instagram profile, etc. Similarly to how Lottie gets paid for promoting products. The disclosure of sponsorship usually happens on those posts with a #sponsorship or #ad hashtag or some other way the person is following the law. On occasion they will do a partnership post with the brand which basically says the same thing.

My point here is that I’m surprised there has been no formal announcement of Harry being paid to sponsor Lime bikes. You would think that that would be a legal necessity. BUT, and here is where the loopholes come in. He has never promoted his usage of their product on any of his own platforms. Meaning if a paparazzi takes a picture of him on a Line bike and sells the picture and it gets published in the DM it’s not him purposely promoting a product it’s just him being seen on a product. He wouldn’t have to legally disclose that (I don’t think.) However, as you can see in the link below, Lime bikes, has used Harry’s picture on a bike during the timeframe where we think he was/is being paid for promo of their product on their own platform, and did not disclose that he was being paid for it. They didn’t disclose that it was a sponsored ad or piece of content which it absolutely would have been if he was being paid. They treated it as if it was just another example of “Lime bikes in the wild.” So, I’m wondering if this violates disclosure laws in the UK? Anyone know?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxN4csGsjP1/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Hm. That’s a good question. I don’t have the foggiest idea how those things work.

Anyone out there familiar with the UK laws on this stuff?

More here

#I don’t really understand the point they’re making #how is riding a lime bike better for the planet #than riding a regular one #lime bikes

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eliminate-ai · 2 months ago

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Media literacy - Checking sources

When you were younger did you ever believe in Santa? Or maybe the Tooth Fairy? These things may seem so absurd to many now in adulthood, but everyone had a time where they believed it, whether it be because of the many presents on christmas morning, the santa tracker, or the dollar under your pillow after losing a tooth. Now translate stories like these into adulthood, this is where Media Literacy is so important.

Media Literacy is being able to understand how and why things are posted, along with being able to understand if what is being said is fact or fiction. If I were to say the government will be overthrown in 2 days in favor of a dictatorship by Kim Jung Un, you would probably think I was nuts. Yet, if this popped up on your FYP 20 times, repeating videos talking about communism and sleeper agents coming to hurt America for North Korea, you’d be scared, everyone would. This is why most people post content like this, fear factors are a very good way to get engagement across all platforms, comments wondering if it’s true, likes and favorites just in case, and loads of shares of concern. Now if any of these people stopped and opened a neutral news app looking for an article about this, they’d find nothing. This isn’t the only tactic people use to get engagement.

Another problem isn’t even the lack of media literacy but the misplaced distrust. Many teachers say Wikipedia is a place you should never use for a source yet it is being monetized and altered by paid specialists to make sure misinformation isn’t spread fast. The problem with this is nowhere on the internet is like Wikipedia, you can go and post anything on TikTok without having to think of the repercussions on another being because a phone is something you can just put down. People these days don’t care about doing a simple google search to see if what was told is truth or something someone made up, and chat GPT is a great reason for this.

On many forums and different social media apps, the Reddit community r/AITA is very popular. This community has many crazy stories from so many types of people in different spots in their life. Where the real problems arise is when people see the popularity and use chat GPT to copy the format, this is for interaction using rage bait or empathy of others to gain views and comments. This then leads to many Ai YouTube videos copying the same fake stories over and over again.

Another type of content that uses empathy to gain views is AI content. They use things like cartoon characters, people, or even Jesus Christ as their bait. Many use Jesus Christ as the burnt parts of bread, sightings of Jesus, or even Jesus as a sea god. The biggest problem is not that people make these videos, it’s that people fall for them. Many people who are millennial and above can’t spot the difference between AI and real life, this has lead to many people telling others Jesus is back, some even using religion as a shield of guild to gather likes and views. Actions like this are cruel and shouldn’t be allowed on any site for people to gain popularity or sponsorships on.

#i hate ai #check your sources #take a break from social media #get water #talk to a human #sleep without your phone #enjoy life #ai

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theuniteblogin · 2 months ago

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hookeaudiocom · 1 year ago

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How to Make Money Online with Digital Marketing

In today’s online world, you can use digital marketing to earn money in various ways. Whether you’re a business owner looking to improve your online presence or someone wanting to turn your skills into income, digital marketing offers opportunities to make money. Here are some common ways:

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There are several ways to earn money online. Here are a few popular methods:

Freelancing: Offer your skills and services on freelance platforms such as Upwork, Freelancer, or Fiverr. You can provide services like writing, graphic design, programming, virtual assistance, and more.

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How to Earn Online Money In the USA

There are various ways to earn money online in the USA. Keep in mind that like any other form of income, online earning requires effort, time, and sometimes initial investment. Here are some legitimate methods to make money online:

Freelancing: Offer your skills and services on freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, or Toptal. Depending on your expertise, you can find opportunities in writing, graphic design, web development, digital marketing, and more.

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Online Teaching: If you have expertise in a subject or skill, consider teaching online. Platforms like VIPKid and Teachable allow you to create and sell courses to students worldwide.

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Online Investing: Consider investing in stocks, cryptocurrencies, or peer-to-peer lending platforms, but always remember that investing involves risk.

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10 legitimate ways to make money online in 2023

Freelancing: Offer your skills and services on freelancing platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, or Freelancer. You can provide services such as writing, graphic design, programming, social media management, or virtual assistance.

Online tutoring: If you excel in a particular subject, you can become an online tutor. Platforms like VIPKid, Tutor.com, or Chegg Tutors connect students with tutors for various subjects.

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Online surveys and microtasks: Sign up for reputable websites that offer paid surveys and microtasks, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk or Swagbucks. While the earnings might not be substantial, they can provide some extra income.

Online courses: If you have expertise in a specific field, create and sell online courses. Platforms like Udemy or Teachable allow you to create and sell courses on a variety of topics.

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App development: If you have programming skills, consider developing and selling your own mobile or web applications. You can sell them directly or generate revenue through in-app purchases or advertisements.

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earnmoneyonlinesworld · 2 years ago

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In 2023, there are various ways to earn money online. Here are some popular options

1. Freelancing: Freelancing platforms like Upwork, Freelancer, and Fiverr allow you to offer your services in areas such as writing, graphic design, programming, marketing, and more. Clients post projects, and you can bid or apply for them to start working and earning money.

2. Online tutoring: If you have expertise in a particular subject, you can become an online tutor. Websites like VIPKid, Tutor.com, and Chegg Tutors connect you with students seeking help in various subjects, providing an opportunity to teach and earn money.

3. Affiliate marketing: Affiliate marketing involves promoting products or services on your website, blog, or social media platforms and earning a commission for each sale made through your referral. You can join affiliate programs of various companies or use affiliate networks like Amazon Associates, ShareASale, or CJ Affiliate.

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How to Earn Money from YouTube Videos

A Complete Guide by Webigg Technology

YouTube has grown far beyond a video-sharing platform—today, it's one of the most powerful income-generating tools on the internet. If you're passionate about creating content and want to turn your creativity into cash, YouTube could be your launchpad.

At Webigg Technology, we guide digital entrepreneurs toward smarter monetization strategies. Here’s everything you need to know about how to earn money from YouTube videos and start building a sustainable income stream.

What Is YouTube Monetization?

YouTube monetization is the process of earning revenue from the content you publish on the platform. While uploading videos is free, only creators with a monetized account (those enrolled in the YouTube Partner Program) can earn money.

Once accepted, you can generate income through ads, channel memberships, affiliate links, product placements, Super Chats, or even exclusive paid content.

How Does It Work?

The most common monetization method is AdSense advertising. When ads are placed on your videos and viewers watch them, YouTube shares a portion of the revenue with you. The more engaging your content, the higher the chances of ad views and earnings.

Other income sources include:

Selling your own products or services

Offering premium content

Sponsorships and brand deals

Fan donations during live streams

How Much Money Can You Make?

Earnings vary based on:

Number of views

Audience location and demographics

Video length and watch time

Type of ads (e.g., skippable vs. non-skippable)

Engagement rate (likes, comments, shares)

On average, YouTubers earn $0.01 to $0.03 per ad view, which can amount to $1,000–$3,000 per 100,000 views. With consistency and audience growth, creators can earn a part-time or even full-time income.

Top creators like MrBeast, Jake Paul, and others collectively earned over $300 million in 2021—a testament to YouTube’s incredible earning potential.

Steps to Start Earning on YouTube

1. Meet YouTube’s Monetization Requirements

To apply for the YouTube Partner Program, your channel must have:

At least 1,000 subscribers

Over 4,000 watch hours in the past 12 months

An active and approved Google AdSense account

No community guideline violations

2. Enable Monetization

Once eligible, go to your YouTube Studio dashboard, navigate to “Monetization,” and follow the steps to join the Partner Program.

3. Start Placing Ads

After approval, you can start placing different types of ads on your videos: