Congratulations on achieving your Medium financial goals. I've been a Medium writer since 2016-ish. In that time I've managed to aquire just over 400 followers, and I've earned 3 or 4 cents. I really have no aspiration to earn money for my writing. What I want most of all is dialogue. I used to find lots of that on a site called Newsvine. But trolls destroyed that site and I have not found anything like it since. Sigh...