@finnian I really don't want go in debate about this. Just gonna say this...Be honest, can you become whale just by blogging? No, you can't. If you can, show me one whale who become it just by blogging.
It's not how good author you might be, it's about how much money you have in your pocket. It's about getting lucky so maybe your posts get noticed by rich non-blogger. Bla bla bla I don't really want to get into it because I feel much dishonesty in this all situations. (Not from you, in general)
One more things, this concept of whales finding good content is very funny. If they want to see quality content, why they don't produce it at all? Most of them don't blog at all.
Can you become a whale just by blogging? No, I doubt it. That wasn't something designed into Steemit either. No one created this place to create whales from authoring posts. Can you make a lot of money from posting quality and valuable content? Yes, absolutely.