Just read the @schattenjaeger post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@schattenjaeger/i-m-taking-an-extended-break-from-this-shithole
And I left a reply there that I wanted to share here too:
You are one of the few people who speaks the truth here.
When I joined steemit, my sole purpose was to earn money by writing any shit I could. I even plagiarised because the content never mattered to me.
I got flagged and I stopped writing here. Steemit never gave me any inspiration to write good quality content. It just appeared to me that it is an easy way to make money.
So, after a while, I made some friends on discord and steemit chat and 2 of them were professional writers and bloggers.
And when I saw their work, I enjoyed them, adored them and I wanted to be like them.
Only after that, I thought of writing some good quality content, improving myself every day and maybe one day become a good blogger and writer.
And the thing about good writers and bloggers is that steemit has very few of them.
Both of my friends left steemit after 2 months, they were writing professionally for more than 10 years.
I could not understand it then why they left when they could make money easily because they were such good writers, as steemit is all about writing, they should be on trending page and earn good amounts on each post.
But I understand it now, they did the right thing.
let me make a better summary.
You joined a jerk circle with some whales and they decided to upvote you and that gave you motivation.
congrats. this is what everyone hopes in doing.
It's more of a line than a circle. It's a bunch of people with very little steem power taking turns jerking off the whales hoping to be blessed with some of that sweet, sweet whale sperm (also known as upvotes). Sometimes they get covered in enough whale jizz to become a dolphin, which allows them to form a new line and start receiving a few of the handjobs.
This analogy got out of hand.