You have to Laugh

@jaylar (675)
Kingston, Jamaica
October 8, 2024 3:21pm CST
Years ago there was a so-called writing site...'Bubblews'. Before I joined someone pinched me and told me it was a scam and gave me a kind of blueprint. I joined, I liked, I commented, and now to write... I don't know where the idea came from but it was being a clown in a circus. When I was a little kid Mommy took me and I remember hiding behind her when this clown came near, You can see I know nothing about circus, don't like clowns, but there I go. I wrote a pile of short pieces, starting from clown school, going up to selecting my costume and makeup ... I was writing these 500 word bits and cracking up every few minutes. I published one, then liked, commented, and two days later, published another, following the pattern watching my earnings. Everyone got paid that first time; twenty five US dollars. Although our rate of exchange wasn't as bad then as it is now...(You have $1 US? You have $158 Ja).. it was...(1 US was $12.75) still.... So I got my first pay out and continued to like, and comment, and published the remainder of my clown story. I had $34 when Bub raised its pay out to $50. I knew this was going to happen. I posted a few shards of stuff I'd published elsewhere, kept commenting and liking, reached $50 and got my second pay out. The Bub went down in 2015. I can not say I was ripped off or owed anything.
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@flapiz (23148)
• United Kingdom
8 Oct
It was good while it lasted. Too lucrative I would say.
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@flapiz (23148)
• United Kingdom
10 Oct
@jaylar I see. Maybe it is difficult to focus on studies and run a business. Were they young?
@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
It was created as a scam. The chaps needed $$ so created the site, got their $$ and closed it
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
@flapiz they had a plan... they would earn X dollars then go on with their studies
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@marguicha (222890)
• Chile
8 Oct
Bubblews had only one thing against them: not one of the people there knew any math. Sometimes they paid a lot, sometines they did not pay. Before they went down, I bought my deep freezer with the money they gave me and a wonderful present for my eldest daughter´s 50th birthday. I´m sure that I bought other things. I knew from the beginning that it would not last. As I said, someone has to know some math in an earning site.
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@marguicha (222890)
• Chile
8 Oct
@jaylar It was not properly a scam.
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
the owners were attending MIT. They knew math... and they knew scam
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
@marguicha the chaps who ran it created it as a scam to finance their education. they were in MIT a top university in the US so knew everything and how to run it. They made a lot of money, paid a few of their users, and then closed the site.
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@kaylachan (69476)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Oct
I wasn't there for that but I know I would've liked that site. Especially with such high payouts. Then again when I first started here I had to make ten before payout. I'm actually glad that's been cut in half especially when I have months like this where I'm literally scraping by.
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
because I knew it was going down I didn't post good stuff, measured my involvement so that I can't say they owed me a cent
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@rakski (122504)
• Philippines
8 Oct
It was too good to be true
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@rakski (122504)
• Philippines
9 Oct
@jaylar true!
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
yes, which should have warned users
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@xFiacre (12976)
• Ireland
8 Oct
@jaylar Bubblews was hilarious. At one point I was raking in $25 a day for writing not very much and not very well. It had to implode.
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
it was created to be a scam. so many people were ripped off
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• Shenzhen, China
9 Oct
You indeed can make money on Bub,i don't understand why someone said that was a scam?
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@jstory07 (139626)
• Roseburg, Oregon
8 Oct
Bubblews was paying out more than they took in. I saw it coming and left at the right time.
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@jstory07 (139626)
• Roseburg, Oregon
8 Oct
@jaylar I got all of my money and left..
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
@jstory07 that's why I did the clown series and the comments etc. Got payout 1 and took my time knowing that everyone gets paid the first time. Knowing once the thresehold changed it would go back to the first time... so I'd get paid. paid 2x, and sat back
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
they didn't pay a lot of people... that's how they earned
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@somewitch (1387)
8 Oct
I never invested much time on that site, it takes me a while to get used to a new platform and I was late to the game anyway. It's great you managed to get paid twice before it went down.
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@jaylar (675)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Oct
i was lucky that I was warned and set my pattern
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