The whales definitely need to look at their content to really see what they are contributing/doing to/for Steemit. If I was a whale I would share my vote around and well, I know I generally like to provide Steemit with something from my posts which even as a gamer is entertainment and something others can enjoy (which I prefer using DTube for).
Bid bots are really worthwhile, but I have been on the receiving end of someone putting 100SBD on one I used, so I only got 70% more up vote value than which isn't even half.
I can't wait until they work out sorting the abuse of the bots, I would like knowing someone can't just dump 20SBD plus at the last minute and steal 30% of the up vote value, giving the rest of the bidders a lower % and ROI%.