"I’m don’t know why this showed up in my feed in the first place."

It's called "The Medium Lottery" (and notice I put in a capital T). The Medium psychologists put these kinds of articles in our feeds to make us believe that we too can win the lottery--for posting the same kind of article day-after-day. It keeps us going!

Seems to be working for me. My last article got only nine readers. Yet I keep coming back.