Yeah, I remember you being a friend of the other aussie's on the platform (I think) and aside from your gaming content you did some great photography. Similar to you and taraz for instance I invested my voting power in you in the hopes that A. You'll stick around and B. You'll use it to curate for further distribution and not just spend it on yourself or just on a few buddies like some do.
One of the advantages of doing manual curation is that you can keep tabs on the accounts you're supporting on your feed, if they start doing well on their own you can lay off your votes for a while, etc. The disadvantage is of course also that the authors may feel like you don't like their content anymore or that you've forgotten about them which the latter often is the case due to timezone or other things you may not see them in your feed for a period of time.
But yeah, glad my voting power didn't go to waste in your case, cause through the years for many, it unfortunately has and now they're just gone with the stake which most likely just landed in another whale's pockets on or off-chain and won't do distribution any favors.
In my case I found it all getting reinvested in my craft. I did cash out some stuff, got new cameras, but always make sure new work gets posted here as well. In all honesty, most of my stake went into Splinterlands. Vices. :D