How does popularity affect earnings?

The answer is simply directly proportional.

Let me give you an example. I enjoy reading @taskmaster4450le's articles. But there are equally good articles that are rated much lower. It's just that one has more influence and is known more than the other.

It's okay. So everywhere, let's take football, why 2 games playing at the same level receive different salaries, that's right, they know one more. And so everywhere, I do not yet claim that $ 50 per post, since I do not post posts every day, my grammar is worse than that of a native speaker, and maybe my posts do not catch so much.

The main thing to remember is that the people we admire now also once started from the very bottom. If they could, then so can you.