Yo @mikebluehair42 , sorry you're having challenges financially right now. Please don't post nsfw (not safe for work) stuff. This page is supposed to be friendly for all ages. Einstein said something like "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results". So take that as a clue, that if what you're doing isn't working, try new things.
Steemit isn't a Utopia, it would be nice if we all had tons of people vote on our stuff and got paid lots but it takes a lot of time to build up a following. I see you have 424 followers, that's a good start but not quite enough.
One tip is to go to the introduceyourself section and welcome 10-20 new members every day, if an average of 5 or 6 of them follow you, in a year you'll have another 2000 followers. (some people offer a resteem service once they have a lot of followers and make some steem with that)
The reality though is that a lot of the new users are coming from poor countries like Venezuela or Nigeria and their votes aren't going to be worth much. You have to provide massive value consistently to get whales' attention to follow you. I wish it were easier and hopefully there will be some improvements and new opportunities here over time.