Huff Post just spat in the faces of all those who made it what it is today.

“You have one new email from the Huff Post Blog Team” — my phone read. I’d been refreshing my emails, over and over again, waiting on a reply to come through about my newly ordered wedding shoes.

Not the email I was waiting for but, intrigued, I immediately clicked to open it.

Marked “Important” at the top of the email was a subheading:

“The Huff Post contributor platform is closing.”

What the actual f*ck??

Surely this is not how my loyal two years of writing for them [for free] would end?

Thanks for making us squillions in readership views and advertising dollars…. Now fuck off

I couldn’t help but feel that – the abrupt and inconsiderate – mass email that had been circulated to all their loyal contributors felt like a spit in the face to all those who had loyally supplied them with FREE content, over the years.

The dinner conversation around me faded to indistinct chatter as I stared at the tiny text on my phone screen in my lap. My foot tapped impatiently on the ground as I waited for the rest of the email to load…

Fucking iPhone.

Fucking internet connection.

Huff Post was one of the first publications to take me on, back when I’d just started writing publicly. I still had the email from Arianna Huffington, herself, stuck to my office wall. It has always been one of my proudest achievements in my writing career and the thought of not being able to add “Writer for the Huff Post” to the end of all my bio’s made my stomach flip anxiously…

Let alone that fact that the countless articles I’d diligently posted over the years would now be ummm, where exactly?? Lost in the ethos? Deleted?

Fuck.

The decision came from the platform’s Editor in chief Lydia Polgreen — the email read:

*Read the rest of the article on my Medium writing account here.