Roulette betting systems: does anyone actually make money with them or just cope.

every time i try to track roulette results and try different progressions, my notebook starts off neat with all the stats and patterns, but then i end up bored and abandoning it after a bad streak. i see people posting about martingale, reverse, d’alembert and all that, but i wonder if anybody actually manages long-term profit, or if it’s just a coping mechanism after losing sessions. i get the math says you can’t beat the house, but the stories about people "crushing" with their system keep popping up.

i’m not convinced any of the popular systems actually work beyond getting lucky short term. has anyone here run a system for months, kept hard records, and ended up positive at the end? really interested in data, not just anecdotes.