Who are these whales and why are you playing to them like they are an audience that wants to be played to? If they are whales and want the value to go up, they just want you to have the best posts with the best content.
I have been here for a couple of months or so, I enjoy Steemit as a free blogging platform. Whether or not you have got paid for any of your posts, did you even have a chance to do so when making posts on forums, reddit, Facebook, twitter, etc?