



So with the change in writing staff over recent months we have also been presented with two major site issues.

First and most importantly, it appears the email info of TMJ members may have been compromised. This has been mentioned in the comments many times lately, but I wanted to make this more public for people to know.

It happened to my email too, and I'm just as upset as all of you. Please make sure to change your email password to prevent/stop your account from being used to send spam email.

Secondly of course is the refreshing issue which has been frustrating to us all since it began. Along with some questionable ads and automatic downloads on the site.

There has been a lot of confusion about what is happening and why. Here is a comment that previous TMJ owner Stevebeans made about everything going on:

"Here is the deal. I have no more affiliation with the site. I handed it off to someone Nikki knows, and they are completely in charge with everything from ads to the refreshing issue.

Why did I do it? TMJ became more hassle than it was worth for me.

When I carried the site alone, I almost closed shop multiple times because it was a lot of work to keep up with a show that (honestly) I wasn't even interested in any more.

The cast of the show is insufferable, and they have gotten worse by the season.

The only reason the site continued the way it did was because of Megan. She carried the load for a long time, and yes, I did pay for because of it. I wish I could have paid her more, but frankly the site did not generate much revenue for me because I'm not an expert at that.

I don't do slideshows, clickbait or other tactics many other sites use.

I can't stand pop-ups, ads with auto playing audio and all the other weird shit.

I did ask for donations at one point, most would go between the costs of keeping the site up and the rest to Megan, but I was absolutely roasted for being 'greedy'.

Megan got a full time teaching job, and her schedule became a bit full, so I relieved her work by looking for volunteer writers to help her out. That is when I found such brilliant writers like TheGirlses, and especially Tomlin.

I could haven't asked for a better volunteer crew, and so badly wanted to pay them, but the site merely didn't generate the revenue for it.

They single-handedly kept the site running while Megan was busy, and I will always appreciate the hard work they put in.

While they were writing, Megan was still around spot-checking and proofreading as that's about all she had the time to do. She cut back on writing, but essentially 'ran' the site for me.

The brilliant volunteers kept going, and Megan watched over.

However, real life issues came up for Megan and she simply couldn't do anything for the site any more.

That left it all on me, and with my main site, there would be no way I'd handle all the comments, moderating, and dealing with drama.

I knew Nikki, and she knows someone who has experience running multiple sites. Considering the site was barely paying for itself the way I was running it, I cut my losses and handed it over.

As far as some numbers I have seen thrown around. Let me tell you, if they were even close to accurate, I would have kept the site, and each writer would have been paid for each article they submitted.

Website values by those sites are factored by a number of things, mostly alexa rankings and such. They're also under the impression you're squeezing the site for every dollar you can make. I wasn't.

I will send the guy another email about the flood of people leaving the site, but it sounds like the damage has already been done.

People are pushing some reddit group, and once you go reddit, you don't go back apparently.

I just want to close this one more time by saying I absolutely love Megan, Tomlin, and the other writers who took time to offer their services. They are not only fantastic writers, but fantastic people.

Without them, I guarantee this site would have shut the door years ago. So, whether you stay or go, please give them a round of applause because they deserve any and all accolades they get. Thank you"

Even as a writer of this site this information has been hard to come by and I too have only had it laid out for the first time now. Tomlin and I have been texting a lot over the last few weeks trying to figure things out and get more info.

Today I was able to get in touch with Nikki who has assured me that she is aware of everything going on and will be meeting with the new site developer this Wednesday to discuss the technical issues.

We've also arranged a group iMessage for Nikki, Tomlin, and I to communicate on about the site, which is what we used to do with Megan and it worked pretty well.

So hopefully these things will bring some better changes for us all

I don't know what the future of TMJ will be, but I want to apologize to the whole community for what's been going on. As someone who has been a reader, commenter, and a writer of Teen Mom Junkies, I understand the disappointment.

Some of these recent events have really felt like a betrayal to the community which is the lifeblood of this website.

This site has been through all kinds of up and downs since it began in 2011 and I have my fingers crossed that we can weather this dip in the road and come back strong again!