The seed for this story was planted in my head a few months back when I was reading the "all-trending" page to see what all the hullabaloo was about. One of the first "high-quality-original-content-posts" I ran across was a long rant about how this blogger started from scratch, like 5 years ago, and persevered their way to the top of the "all-trending" page without a lick of help or outside investment. Making it into the elite club of the top-earners proved their talent and grit and dedication to being themselves. And of course, they boldly declared, "if I can do it, then anybody can".

And I thought to myself, this self-aggrandizing, vapid rant is what passes for "high-quality-original-content" worthy of the sacred top-trending page?