I’ve looked around and I’m happy to say a lot of people are at least earning a couple of bucks. Some of them under HF20 started to slack off a bit on engaging with their audience, getting out of their blog and quality itself. I can only hope they put in more effort now that the platform is making an honest attempt.
With all the posts calling for people to help find undervalued individuals I say played a large role in that.
There were and I think still are a number of stragglers who are not using tribe tags. I think that right there is a great way to stand out in the niche areas for those putting in the time. I’ve help a couple move over to using them and even better when they get a taste of their content being on the trending page for a tribe. Harder for the spam and zero effort posts to stand on two legs in those areas.
As far as the “little accounts.” I think a couple people who over bid bot their content when they put zero effect into it with every single Steem they own had a bad week. Hard to build an account when everything goes into such a high risk venture like that.