My personal opinion is that these so called Whales are a bit like doing the lottery, the odds are pretty stacked against you. To compensate getting as many Minnows and maybe the odd Dolphin to upvote you stands far more chance of success.
You could of-course sell your integrity and do a post with 38 totally bemusing, poor quality, animated gifs and watch the shaved gibbons upvote it like crazy. :-D
Are you busting my chops for my Steeme posts ;) (steem memes I produce myself and post new 3-10 meme sets of once or twice daily?)
They get upvoted like crazy! LOL
Ahahahaha I didn't realise you churned out vote fodder. Good luck to you.
I churn out... everything. I have meme posts, story posts, opinion posts, fiction posts, research projects... you name it. But I always try to make them witty, engaging and readable. I also believe in giving people what they want and when i saw that a 4 hour research project post on some steemit tool, (one of my biggest $ posts yet, to be fair) wasn't doing much better or in some cases worse than a 5 meme original content new meme post (I call them steeme's, actually) would take less time, make more money AND be more fun to make and have comments exchanges on, well.... I must admit to selling out a little to all that fun.
You might want to read this (Unless you already have?) https://steemit.com/circlejerk/@aggroed/autovorotic-asphyxiation-the-mega-circle-jerk-is-choking-out-itself-through-the-rewards-pool
I loves me some @aggroed posts and chats. Always a pleasure speaking with him, and his post is spot on and ties in here nicely. THANK you for alerting me to it here. Digesting it now.
Yeah. I don't know him personally but he's been kind enough to take some time out to reply to me. I like his stuff a lot although some of it is over my head. :-)
Sorry to spam your timeline. This is the sort of thing I'm talking about https://steemit.com/life/@franklynx/when-the-whales-give-you-an-upvote totally worthless imo. No text just animated gifs and yet it's already earned $2.03 while my latest post that took me forty minutes or so and only has one image is currently at $0.48 there's no justice in the world. ;-)
LOL
Not to mention he has only 83 followers. That IS what makes me wonder. I have 460ish followers, he has 83. How is he getting that much? UNLESS, and I didn't look, he randowhaled it. That ALWAYS works, and i recommend the investment, personally in @randowhale on your posts.