I didn't realize you were a curator, and I just got a notification for my 5 years on Hive the other day. We've been on Hive I assume since the hardfork. I remember stumbling upon your profile years ago, and I've seen you bouncing around all these years, but because we aren't in the same Hive circles, our paths haven't crossed much.
Curating is stressful work, I can totally relate to that. I can remember years ago when I started the ASEAN Hive Community and found that no whales were willing to directly support it. It took along time, but by grassroots means we developed nearly 100,000 HP in delegations, and although it's nothing compared to what OCD and Curangel curate with, it does allow me to balance curation gaps a bit, tough seeing two posts of equal quality, one with a $120 payout coming, and the other with only $1.98, mirroring the imbalance of the real world very often.
All in all though, my goal has always been maintaining a community with standards of quality that allow curators with big HP to drop by and easily find quality posts if they choose to do so. I can remember blogging for almost a year before a getting a payout that reached dollars instead of cents, hard to explain to newbies that complain about only getting $15 payouts, a number I still often don't reach with my content.