The question is, if those are real accounts. I clearly could see somebody, just using autoupvote for whales, dolphins and whatever is still above minnow and plankton, to get an slice of the curation reward pool.
But i got your point, if a crowd of planktons like me,would help each other out with upvotes, we would have some impact on each other on the long run.
I people don't look at this the right way in my opinion, they see the money aspect but not the social network aspect. That's why they take the wrong approach towards some stuff regarding steem.
This perpetuating the issues as hand.