I like you @stellabelle. Thanks for this. I did something similar on a smaller scale. I exited from all my voting guilds - you know where everyone votes for everyone. So now all my upvotes are organic - for my posts less votes and less money, but at least they feel more real. And every now and then I get a nice big upvote from a whale for like ten dollars.
But of course it also puts more power in my hands in terms of deciding what I spend my upvotes on. Just feels better.