Self-media refers to individuals or teams using their own platforms and content creation capabilities to spread and promote information through the Internet to obtain advertising revenue or other forms of economic benefits. There were many ways to make money from the media, such as advertising revenue, paid content, brand cooperation, and so on. Among them, advertising revenue was one of the main sources of income for the media. The self-media platform would provide advertising space to the advertisers according to the content created by the self-media people, the number of fans, the number of readers, and other factors, and then place the advertisements on the self-media people. Self-media people could get advertising fees by clicking on advertisements, buying advertisement exposure, and so on. In addition, paid content was also a way for the media to make money. Self-media platforms usually provided paid content such as professional advice and in-depth reports to attract self-media people to provide high-quality content. Self-media people could receive royalties and other forms of economic benefits from the platform by providing paid content. As for why I didn't get a single read, it might be because the content I wrote didn't meet the needs of the readers or didn't attract their interest. If you want to increase the readership of the article, you can pay more attention to the needs of the readers, provide interesting and useful content, and try different ways of writing to attract more readers.