This is mainly me just sharing my thoughts and partial frustrations with the realization of blogging / vlogging. It is nothing new to me but it is one of those things a person has to deal with when they are doing this a lot. So currently on the STEEM blockchain I often can make just as much by posting a one picture post or a quick meme since so much of the voting here is autovote driven. Some people would say......
"Then just do that! Post One picture posts and Memes."
While the small posts and memes can be fun I don't want my entire blog to be about that and I don't want to feel like I have to do that to get some quick earnings. It becomes frustrating when I spend 4 hours on a very detailed video about EOS and I earn more on a meme that I spent 10 minutes on. That is sort of the nature of the beast though and it happens on YouTube as well. Videos that do really well can be videos about drama related stuff or things that don't ad a ton of value. Then if you make a great video really explaining something it gets very low traction.
No system is going to be perfect and I think that one of the frustrations on here is that oftentimes payouts don't seem to have anything to do with the quality of the content even for those of us who have a decent follower base and have been here for awhile. It is like you have to be constantly going around saying,
"Hi everyone......I'm still here..... remember me!!!!!"
Part of the reason for that is I feel like 90% of the people on here are content creators and so we spend so much time creating our own stuff it is hard to go around and look at everyone else's content. On YouTube I feel like it is 10% content creators and 90% or more people watching, subscribing, and commenting. I even feel bad sometimes when I can't check up on everyone's blogs. It is like we are running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to still interact but also trying to create good content.
Good Content vs Bad Content
I think Steemit has struggled with this the entire time it has been around. For awhile it was like you could only get a big payout if you basically wrote a 20 page research paper. It was like "Proof of Effort." If it looked like it was real long and took a lot of time then there was a chance of a big payout.
Thing luckily went away from that and now with people's votes actually being worth something then the distribution is spread a lot more evenly. Ultimately content is subjective so I see a lot of content that I don't feel provides any value but that the person has enough STEEM Power to get a decent payout and then potentially has a lot of rental power to keep boosting stuff up.
Obviously people who have been here for more than 5 minutes can see that some users just go to CoinDesk and CoinTelegraph and a few other places every mornings and read the news and then paraphrase the content and they have enough power that it usually gets pushed clear to trending and then more people see it and vote it up.
I'm not saying it is good or bad but it is understandable how some people would feel it isn't fair. With everything being visible on this blockchain it is interesting how that plays with someone's thinking whereas on YouTube you can't see exactly how much these content creators make so it becomes a big talking point about how much they are making and there is a partial mystery behind all of it.
I Can't Focus On What I Want On YouTube Either
Even in the crypto space I would rather do the educational videos and do the deep dives like I did with Electroneum, RaiBlocks, SmartCash, and EOS but those videos don't get as many hits as if I talk about the drama surrounding Bitconnect and these guys like 
I think it is important to call out the scammers and put the information out there so the new people to crypto can form their own opinion on the subject but really when it boils down to it I don't really want to be all wrapped up in being a scam buster or constantly calling people out.
Also I want to talk about more than crypto on that particular channel but I feel like for the time being it makes the most sense to just only focus in on crypto at least until I'm hopefully monetized on that channel.
Conclusion
I guess I'm just venting a little bit but also just voicing the realization of being a content creator. All summer and fall I powered down and reinvested into other cryptos and then was able to power up 0.5 BTC and the timing on that worked out pretty good on here but even with all that and the prices going up a lot on SBD and STEEM I'm really not making that much on my blog in my mind.
I guess in my mind if I can make $200 / day on here I would feel like that would be "worth it." But oftentimes it doesn't come out to that. Then to push toward that mark I would almost have to crank out some real short meme or one picture posts to try to pump the earnings up but then I risk having people take me off their autovoters because I post too much. Hahahah....... so in some ways it feel like it is tough to win overall with the whole thing in some respect.
I'm actually really bullish on STEEM right now and everything that is going on with the platform but it is hard to say if I can maintain full time income just from content creation on here overtime. The better play might just be the fact that I have STEEM Power and the price goes way up.
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