I feel your pain, I wrote a story in three parts about my partner. How he has had a very bad childhood with no love of his parents, about the way he was treated by a girl and the way he find his 'first unconditional love', his dog. The way he had to say goodbye to this dog and how he found another dog that lives till then in a shelter. I wrote them and posted ... ofcourse I hoped for the best ... and here they are, seven days later just only upvoted for a few cents. And yes every cent is a cent, I know ... but it hurts. To write such personal things and to see them only upvoted for a few cents, and my photography the same thing. I've seen photo's here that are not technical perfect, in fact I would call them just a little snapshot, and they get rewards of $300 or more. And my photo's are getting no higher rewards then a few cents. It really hurts, and I' trying not to get discouraged ... but it's very hard! On the other side, if I post my story's and photo's on facebook, I wouldn't make that few cents either. So I keep on posting, hoping for the best to come my way. And keep reacting on other people who I think deserve it! Maybe I won't get rich, but after all it is a much better way to motivate myself to work on it, and at least here on steemit I have a chance of being rewarded ... so it's giving me also a drive to create the best what I can do ...
Exactly! That point has been brought up a lot lately – this same content would earn us exactly zero on every other platform. A penny is still a penny...and they do add up. slowly, perhaps, but they do. Just keep doin' you – it'll pay off, I'm sure.