The frustrating thing is that follower count matters very little compared to WHO is following you. One whale who regularly upvotes You helps your pay out more than a thousand minnows. No matter how successful I get I can’t justify this and you are totally right that it will make it harder and harder to succeed here. That’s not to say it isn’t worth sticking around and working at it because there is still an awesome community, but you really have to stay balanced otherwise you tire yourself out. I would love to change this place around and my two main goals for succeeding here are first, to shamelessly realize my own financial success (read: not be poor as shit) and to help other community artists and writers do the same, this has been my goal before steemit and now it’s right here in front of me and it’s like “arggg why don’t you work like you are supposed to” hahaha
And then I do great on my post complaining hahaha