Congrats on your post. The $7,005.94 listed (at time of writing) is real money that will be paid out to your account in the next 20 minutes or so. You should seriously consider cashing at least some of it out. If you click that link it will take you to a write-up on the process.

Welcome to the community and I'm sorry for all those that were overly skeptical up front. It's the growing pains of the platform.