But I went from making $500 or so in a year to making $10.
I went from supplying games and media recs and comics and occasionally short fiction pieces to people who lived near me to yeeting blog posts in to the void and hoping google gave me some traffic.
I went from having a network of people who would *show up* to get the latest games I had put together, and who would talk me and suggest other games and occasionally bring me collections they'd made or purchased or whatever and swap them with me, to getting 6 real emails and thousands of spam emails over the 4 years I ran my gaming blog.