This blog had been left untouched for about three years. After meeting AI, I restarted it — and about one month has passed.
I never thought it would move this quickly.
And not through my art, either…
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A Notification Arrived
June 2, 2026, evening.
One email arrived on my phone.
The sender was “Moshimo Affiliate” (a Japanese affiliate network).
Subject: “Notice of a Generated Result [Moshimo Affiliate]”
……Huh.
Huh!?
The Moment I Opened It, I Exclaimed Out Loud
Let me be honest.
I opened it thinking “not the art — that side!!?”
It was real, not a lie.
Good thing the affiliate program was Japanese (made), laughs.
Promotion name: Product purchase on Rakuten Ichiba / Rakuten Group, Inc.
Reward: ¥1,147 (pending approval)
Partner media: morirancru
Date generated: 2026/06/02
¥1,147.
Just ¥1,147.
But for me right now, this number is heavier than ¥1,000,000!!!
The story of when this result was still pending approval is here (in Japanese)
I Don’t Know What Sold — But It Was Thanks to Cookies
Looking at the referrer, the access came from this blog’s AI Techniques Vol. 3 (in Japanese).
That article is about how I build this blog together with Claude.
But “what was bought” isn’t written in the notification.
It only says Rakuten Ichiba (Japan’s big online marketplace).
All I had introduced was a book about Claude, though…
As I learned later, this is apparently a mechanism specific to affiliate marketing called the “cookie effect.”
It’s a system where, after a reader clicks my link, even if they don’t buy that book, if they buy a completely different product on Rakuten Ichiba within a certain period (such as 24 hours) — daily goods, home appliances, whatever — I, the introducer, still receive the reward.
In other words, the Claude article I wrote became the trigger that pressed someone’s “shopping switch” on the other side of the screen.
Someone definitely read this blog, clicked the link, and made a purchase.
That fact alone filled my chest.
I Calculated the Month-over-Month Growth
Last month (May) affiliate revenue: ¥0
This month (June) result: ¥1,147
Month over month: up ∞%.
Division by zero — naturally, it cannot be calculated.
A growth rate that human mathematics cannot express (laughs).
By the way, May’s AdSense revenue was ¥19.
¥19, built up bit by bit over a whole month.
That turned into ¥1,147 in a single day, June 2.
May: ¥19 → June (as of the 2nd): ¥1,147
Month over month, up about 6,037%.
Now this one can be calculated (laughs).
Combined with the AdSense balance (¥6,531), my cumulative revenue became ¥7,697.
*This cumulative total includes the ¥1,147 pending approval from Moshimo Affiliate (generated in June 2026). For what happened afterward, see the latest revenue summary (in Japanese).
About one month after restarting the blog. This number appeared when I had 20 articles (this post is the 21st).
Art Sales: Zero
Let me say this honestly.
On the three sites INPRNT, Redbubble, and Fine Art America, I have the same 12 works lined up (11 on INPRNT).
On Fiverr, two gigs are published.
Sales are ZERO. Yes: ¥0.
This is the main front, but right now it’s completely silent.
On the very same day the affiliate ¥1,147 moved, my art sales for this month were zero.
But this is reality, so I’ll write it properly!
Most side-business blog articles that say “I made revenue!” only write the convenient parts — “¥100,000 a month in just one month since starting my blog!!” — and omit what’s not going well.
Things absolutely do not go that well. I can declare that!
And I absolutely do not want to do that kind of fake.
That’s exactly why I’ll record (frustrating as it is) that the main front still isn’t moving at all!
But the Fact That Zero Moved Is True
More than the amount of ¥1,147, what’s bigger this time is the fact that “zero became one.”
It was proven that this blog (not the art) can generate money.
Whether it’s reproducible, I won’t know until next month.
Just because it happened once doesn’t mean it will happen every month.
Even so.
It moved.
For today, I feel that’s enough.
The big comparison of 5 overseas platforms is here
Summary
About one month after restarting the blog. 21 articles.
The first result notification arrived from Moshimo Affiliate (*to be precise, the first in a long while).
¥1,147. What sold is unknown (thanks to the cookie effect!). Art sales are zero. Even so, zero moved. (The result is pending approval. I’ll report again when it’s finalized.)
But I believe this ¥1,147 will become a precious page — one I’ll look back on, laughing, five years from now.
And of course I saved the commemorative screenshot properly, laughs.
Also recommended: “How I Build a Blog with Claude — Everything Shown” (in Japanese)
Next Time
Next time, I plan to deliver the “Platform Comparison — Complete Summary” comparing all the platforms I’ve registered so far, all at once.
INPRNT, Redbubble, Fine Art America, Fiverr, Displate… I’ll honestly write each one’s characteristics and what I learned from actually using them.
Next: The Reality of One Month of Overseas Side Business (Zero Sales on 4 Sites)
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