1. If there is no screenshot of earnings, it's just words.
2. I don't see a link to any of the "viral" posts so how do we know they actually went viral?
The only tech articles that go viral are from manufactures about their newest product's release date.
There are certain parts of the world where this type of storytelling is permissible. It doesn't make it true. When another writer was question about thei claim on viral articles, they tought if their post got 100 views (or something like that) it meant it had gone iral. We had to educate him too.
Don't believe everything you read on here. Verify, verify, verify.