Yeah, I have never thought I would get rich from crypto so I have only ever done what I wanted to here. I have a job that pays my bills so I have never needed to chum for orcas or whales to put food on the table. It's nice when you get the big upvotes, for sure, but you can't rely on them and when the prices drop, unless they are giving you two votes, you will be sadly lacking in the bread department.
When I joined Steemit the Steem price was $4.50 and people kept telling me to buy it because it was going to be $20 in a month. I didn't understand anything about crypto so I didn't buy any but I did notice that I had got to a penny upvote and pretty soon I was at $.002, even though my SP was going up. Luckily I wasn't relying on it is all I can say.
I'm not going back to my WP blogs though. I let my hosting die a week ago and will just stick with Threespeak as my creative outlet and the occasional blog on the blockchain. I have lost the passion to actually write anything. I still write in my head all the time, just no drive to hunt and peck out a post.
Cheers!