Wow after reading this I basically just feel like a sucker. Pushing out original content regularly that 90% of the time has value add for readers. Readers literally telling my in the comments my work is undervalued.
Then I see that BS accounts and plagiarism hit for big chunks of money and then peace out, suck those Steem dollars right out of the system. $$$s I invested with my fiat currency.
Definitely not a good moment for moral....but I steem on because I believe hard work is rewarded or again, maybe I'm just a sucker.
If anyone is interested in content where you will learn something feel free to see any of my scaredy cat investing posts.
Yeah, it is discouraging seeing clickbait posts that basically say the exact same thing as every buzzfeed article out there get thousands of dollars while actual original content is getting cents. Even if the content is not plagiarized, some of it is just utter bs. Maybe people have forgotten what good writing looks like?
@mscleverclocks no - it's just happening here, too - following the crowd ;)
at least you could see that