It would be the same. After my first whale upvote I called a friend to tell her I just won $300 on the post. She said brilliant what are you gonna spend it on and I said well I can only spend half of it and immediately lost her.
Now given that first reaction I took a different approach when telling another few friends. I said I won $250 that I can spend and a stake in the platform worth $250. That's when my friend who is a developer and should really be on steemit because he's currently out of work to work on his portfolio told me to be careful - that part about being made a stake holder made him think scam - which I still think is ridiculous but it's not unusual for people to think this way.