I agree and I'm now at 2000+ followers and my posts are doing horrible. Steemit never reached the level I had hoped it would and I would have brought on a ton of new people tat have large followings but without whale support it's not possible. And for what reason I don't know I seem to have lost almost all of my support.
I got a small taste of good payouts when Whaleshares was paying me to run the contest I was running. Then the Whaleshares crew screwed me out of 3000 WS and stopped talking to me when they were the ones that recruited me and offered to pay me. They never even told me to stop doing the contest.
Steem does not look like it's ever going to go anywhere, and payouts are far too small and not recurring in-spite of our content staying up.
The good part for me was that I made some money and put it all into crypto and I'm trading crypto now. So I can make more money with less work than Steemit or photography.
I put a lot of time and energy into my work and was shooting just for steemit for awhile. Now it really does not pay and when my last post celebrating 2000+ followers has made less than $10. I can't take Steemit seriously anymore.
PS: Sadly I was not here for the big payout in the beginning.
Hey bro. Great to see you here. Though sorry to hear you about your whaleshares experience and the 2000+ followers not doing much for you.
Do you remember when we focused on the value of Steem rising using LOA? Perhaps we should do that again???!!! Worked pretty good last time.
If I am reading things right we are due for a price jump when Smart Media Tokens launch. It is a solid idea bringing the blockchain to non steemit bloggers. Could be HUGE for Steem.
Give it some time. In the big scheme of things we are still the early adopters.