So here’s the story.
Seventeen years online.
GiveUpInternet.com survived MySpace, Tumblr, and the emotional trauma of Facebook comments in 2012.
But it couldn’t survive Medium.com, the platform that thinks satire is a security threat.
Yes, folks.
Medium suspended GiveUpInternet’s brand-new account after exactly one and a half posts.
Reason? “Violation of Medium Rules.”
Translation? “We made news about a memecoin launch platform, and their AI thought it was an uprising.”
We weren’t even shilling a coin.
We were just doing what we’ve done since 2008, documenting the internet’s glorious stupidity.
Apparently, that’s now considered high-risk behavior.
Medium, bless its minimalist white-space soul, has turned into the digital equivalent of an organic café that kicks you out for drinking coffee too loudly.
Everything’s soft, neutral, beige, and terrified.
They want “creators,” but only if they whisper gently about productivity, gratitude, and journaling routines.
Meanwhile, our post was about a dApp, not a coin, not a rugpull, not even a pump-fun fiesta.
We literally wrote about decentralized creativity.
But to Medium’s moderation team, anything containing the word “meme” might as well be a war crime.
We filled their little appeal form.
We begged their AI overlord to have mercy.
We said please. We even clicked “I agree.”
Still waiting for a reply that will probably come after the next Halley’s Comet.
Medium, once the home of indie writers and rebel essays, is now a place where every paragraph feels like it has an HR department.
It’s not a platform anymore, it’s a therapy session for people afraid of adjectives.
So here’s what we’ll do.
We’ll publish our next piece right here on GiveUpInternet.com, like it’s 2009 again.
No content police. No mindfulness quotes. Just the web being weird, raw, and alive.
If Medium ever unsuspends us, we’ll thank them politely right before we post this article again over there, in all its inappropriate glory.
Until then, dear Medium, stay hydrated, stay beige, and remember:
The Internet was never supposed to be safe. It was supposed to be fun.
Tony Stubblebine aka Coach Tony, CEO of Medium prolly never use X. He has no idea where the freedom of speech level came atm.
