Day 1
So I signed up for this steemit thing a week ago. A whole week ago and I’m just now getting approved to use my account, kmt. I wonder what all the fuss was about, I hope it’s not another Ponzi scheme; at least my money isn’t in it.
Wow, so many people making money on here. Wait $540? For one post? And it’s just some pictures with little text. Well damn, I gotta get me some of this. What’s the first thing to do here? Introduce myself innit; where’s that picture I took outside that fancy restaurant a month ago. That should do it.
Day 2
Well my introduce myself post made $10, not a bad start. Time to draft some posts and start seeing em dollars rise baby.
Day 4
What the hell is this cheetah’s problem? Commenting on my posts and shit. So good ol’ copy and paste is too good for y’all. Damn, a homie has to start crafting posts and all that, this might be harder than I thought.
Day 8
20 posts later and I’ve still only made $10 from my introduce myself post. Apparently I’m a minnow or some shit and the people making all the money are whales. Steemit sucks; I even started writing all this shit myself too. All em whales have tons of followers. How am I even supposed to compete? Time to rely on some classic social media strategy. Follow for follow my good friends.
Day 18
So now I got about 400 followers, but my payouts aint increased a bit! What the hell? A new friend I made told me about an upvote dealer. I guess I might as well see what that’s about.
Day 20
The upvote dealer helped, his name’s Rando and thanks to him I make about $2 on every post now. I’ve also given up on that follow for follow thing, that shit don’t work here. Gotta start leaving good comments on posts and engaging the society, thought this was supposed to be good free money; it’s turning into a lot of work. I should have joined last year, would’ve been a whale too. Just my luck.
Day 28
Hell no. Rando don fucked me up. I paid for an upvote and that homie didn’t give me anything, talking about technical difficulties and shit. Just what I get for getting in bed with a dealer. Started getting some real engagement though, people actually read my shit and leave comments. I might not even need that dealer no more.
Day 34
Yo this steemit thing is actually hella fun. I didn’t even notice I started spending all my time on here. So many nice people here, I guess this is what living in Canada must feel like. And the dollars have started rolling in too, slowly but I’ll get there eventually. In the meantime I’m gonna live it up with my steem homies yo.
Thank you for reading. This post is my entry into Mike's writing challange. Here is the prompt given:
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I don't know why I wrote this with the inner voice of a black American male. Must be because of the movie I was watching earlier.
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Haha good post, I posted something similar recently. Steemit can definitely become very time consuming, but you need to enjoy the process. As a Canadian I chuckled a bit at the last part.
Yeah I read that post, I could relate completely. Very true, the fact that Steemit is fun is the icing on the cake. All hail the Maple leaf
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That it is, thank you for stopping by :)
Haha, cool article.
Thanx for explaining, it's my 8th day now.
No dealers for me, haha.
Good luck. ;)
Hahaha. You'll get the hang of it. Just read people posts and leave meaningful comments like this one, it gets easier. You should also get discord and join the PAL.net server to get some help and boost. Steem on friend
Thanx a lot. :D
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Nice post, I'm still new here though, obviously I need a trailer load of patience and I got it from reading this post, kudos
Thanks for stopping by, be consistent and engage people, you'll get used to the platform soon enough.
wow....registered a few days back and I just couldnt stay off. But to be sincere it aint easy at all for we newbies even with quality posts.
The main thing to do when you start is interact with people. Leave good comments on the posts you like and eventually people will notice you. Then when you write try to be consistent. I'm also a newbie, not been here up to a month, just let people notice you.
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Kudos to you sensei
Thanks G
nicely done!
I love the line about this must be what it feels like to live in Canada. Too much!
Thank you for entering! We need more entries or I will have to declare you first through third place!
Hahaha, hopefully we get some more soon.
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Thanks so much.
Thank you for this informative post - no snark intended. I still don't quite "get" all the bots on steemit but this randowhale was one I was certain was a bad operator. Minnow problems = goodbot vs badbot?
Lol, he's not always a bad operator, happened once that I know of, might be the only time its happened, I cant be sure.
It's both fun and confusing to be a minnow.
Very true, the growth curve is an experience on its own