I don't understand what's happening here, nor why I got a downvote. I despise politics and anything that comes from them, because of situations like this.
Here's what I do understand: despite working for 10 hours a day at my day to day job and coming home exhausted, I write and post the best content I can with the available time that I have, and yet I became some sort of a collateral damage in a conflict that isn't mine, isn't of interest to me nor to many people on that platform, damage that takes away any money I make after posting on the platform for years.
How is this helping anyone? How is this proving any point? How is this making you or your cause something anyone should support?
Nothing personal: you just seem like a guy with money that does something bad to other people who did nothing bad because you're mad and frustrated and offended and since you cannot really be punished properly in any way, shape or form, you just inflict damage, especially on people who cannot fight back.
Maybe it is for reasons such as this one that some people prefer not to use platforms like Hive. One frustrated and immature individual is all it takes to ruin the motivation of any person who works hard to earn a bit of extra money on the side, money that, surprise surprise, is often very needed.
As a side note: regardless of the reason for this situation, I have a lot of gratitude for both @buildawhale and @themarkymark , regardless of why this guy is against you and regardless of the hate.
It is for your upvotes, and for the upvotes of the rest of the people who read my content, that I keep on posting, working towards more financial stability. It was for people like you and others that a few years ago I could afford food in a few rough moments in my life.
So regardless of what's happening here and of any stupid conflict, you, and the rest of the people who give a shit, have my gratitude.
These are not my accounts, these are his accounts. He created similar accounts to everyone with a lot of Hive Power with an X in front of their name. These counter the votes of the actual whale, but they are just marker votes and don't really remove payouts. They are there so people can follow big votes with downvotes if they want. Recently though he decided to follow all my upvotes with downvotes.
Thank you for the correction, it's late and I'm very tired, so I didn't notice the x in front of the names. I made the change in the comment to properly refer to you and to @buildawhale.