@justiceforall I totally hear you. At the beginning I was like wow, money coming in, my first post. That was a good content. Then I thought maybe the reward was just to lure me, to stay... Then days, weeks, months later it didn't happen again. The content was even better. Maybe there were big hands just controlling, ok she's in, she was in a temporary high, ok let her work hard and earn pennies now.
Now as I get to know steemit more, I get to analyze the people here, how it works. The usual behavior of people of course. I started to 'booster' bid bot / invest some of my posts that I think deserve to be read by some people. I want some of my messages to be out there. So, just it stays for a little bit up there. Then I found out, people just upvote, when they see something is becoming really popular. Conforming. Of course, they want to make money from your post. There are few legitimate readers who really found and dug me somewhere. But the most people are just clapping for a post that's getting famous. I didn't know if they noticed, my post went up there because of me helping myself lol, and some few steemit friends here.
I live off steemit, times are hard. I cannot depend on the whales anymore.
So I don't know what's gonna happen, but let's see how it goes.