I'm trying to not post too much about Steem/crypto and am not giving big votes to posts about it as I want to encourage more creative content. There is a lot of it here, but much of it makes cents. If a few whales could be more patrons of the arts it would help. Some of them are getting votes from the new (or some older) curation services and that's great. The market for posts about crypto is probably much smaller than the one for comics. We each get to use our vote as we think best.
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There are quite a few taking the same approach as you. I focus a lot on the arts and entertainment as well because that content, behind the scenes, takes a lot of work. It's easy to write an opinion, especially when the thoughts are drilling a hole into your head and the words come out like talking.
The overall worldwide market for comics is indeed much larger than crypto. I think the entire entertainment industry makes more money in one year than what all of crypto is worth. That's why I feel it's so important to embrace these things here, put that stuff up to the top, so we can attract regular consumers willing to purchase tokens much like they would if they bought a movie or a book or subscription, to support the content, as they do anyway.
I use comics as an example, but we have a good core of people here in that field. We also have a lot of musicians. Steem seems a great way to get money to creative people as you can vote them some rewards as you consume their art. The 7 day limit is a bit of a pain for that, but I hope we can find ways to work with it.
We also have outsider artists like me! I also do comic like characters. Have you seen them? I don't think the comic community pays much attention to me, because of the unorthodox approach, maybe? That's okay though.
Have you heard of my #showcasesunday? The basic premise is to take old work and rework it into new posts somehow.
I have seen some of your art and it's great that you have your own style. We don't have to conform to what others expect. One of the great things about the internet is that you can reach out to the whole world to find your particular audience. I am not sure if I had seen the tag. Do you have a post about it?
The style is constantly evolving but I think a lot of folks can recognize it and know it's mine without seeing my name next to it. Some folks like it, some don't, that's the life I signed up for and I still enjoy it. I admire this platform because I can use humor or fiction or just random life ramblings and those words double as marketing; they help brings eyes to the art. Don't have to be a sellout.
I do have a post:
https://steemit.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/still-pissed-off-about-that-time-you-did-something-awesome-and-nobody-noticed
So far quite a few people have tried it out. Two even hit top 10 trending slots. People are being creative in how they present this old work for the second go. The one thing I don't want to see is folks copy/paste an exact duplicate, because if it didn't work the first time, it would be wise to improve it the second time. And of course sometimes our posts get overlooked early on, yet we worked our butts off. That's the same struggle everyone goes through at the start, so with something like this, all is not lost.