Writing for anonymous web zines isn't a career in the first place, chap. Most people who write for them do it for free. It certainly won't pay enough to put a roof over your head and even the Huff Post don't pay their irregular columnists. People do it because they like doing it, or they like telling people they do it, or they hope if they do enough free stuff with a ***-eating grin, then someone might start paying them (they catch on eventually, quit in despair and promptly get replaced with a keener person harbouring the same delusions). I would not be at all surprised if author and subject are either the same person or already know each other, given that literally nobody has heard of this 'overlord my playpen' kid.
