I went from four figures a month to about 97 cents. The month that happened I sent a spicey email to the two fakes that Joe writes about and effectively said FU. They have sent me scads of requests to write again. Nope. FU. I leapt to being one of their TOP writers with tens of thousands of views and well over a thousand followers right away and they promptly stabbed all of us in the back. Nope. FU. ALL the sites are doing this. It's a racket. Like you I'vw been a pro, but for a lot longer. I'm done with them, and never joined Vocal. They are all parasitical.