Even in those, it is never passive income. Imagine not doing SEO for a blog or automated blog ? Beyond page 1 of search engines are considered a graveyard. Imagine not uploading videos regularly on a YouTube channel nowadays. There are threads from people good in YouTube, mentioning that their videos have drastically deranked and they are
working hard to get the videos performing again.
E-commerce websites : don't do SEO and / or paid ads for a month or two and see what happens. Passive income means income that is passive and whether it is blogging, e-commerce website, YouTube, regular
WORK is
required nowadays and forums like BHW, etc have millions of threads as testament to that fact.
Even infact in real estate, rent out your property and forget it, never do any maintenance and perhaps after a year it will no longer be rentable for it's actual rental value and that maintenance takes work, even if some contractor does it, still there is some work and time spent by the owner.
In my opinion in reality, nothing gives passive income : everything requires some work, more or less depending on automation, efficiency, etc. However, nothing is plug it, play it, forget it, money guaranteed keeps coming forever after that, with absolutely no further work ever required.
And @xShot , you yourself are always hustling right ? By the way, I really appreciate the methods and experiences that you share. There is no doubt that you are knowledgeable about internet marketing. May be perceptions of people may sometimes be different about some concepts.