Initially when dMania came out I thought it was a cool concept and felt that it could bring a lot of new users to the STEEM blockchain. I participated in some challenges and promoted the dMania logo in my memes so that when I put them on Twitter and Instagram it could promote the logo there as well.

I had delegated a little bit of power to dMania early on to support it. It later gained a lot more support and even got a 500,000 STEEM Power delegation from Steemit, INC.

There were certainly times when I was upset that I didn't get a dMania upvote for original memes and I was always trying to work their logo in to promote the brand. Usually I would see posts where someone snagged a picture or gif from the Internet with no modifications and then pumped it up with vote bots and then it would end up getting the vote from dMania.

Overtime I watched the voting patterns for dMania and usually they barely vote......WTF??? Their voting power will be at 99% or higher a lot of times and when they do vote they will vote on unmodified or unoriginal content that was pushed up already by vote bots. Most likely to gain the most curation rewards.

Honestly I got sick of seeing myself and other real Steemians who were making original stuff not getting the votes especially considering that my stuff was original, promoting the brand, and I had even delegated power to the platform.

The thing that is weird is that the creator of dMania made a post about abuse on the STEEM blockchain and it revolved around these upvote bots. So why is he barely voting and when he does it is for posts that have been boosted by upvote bots?

https://steemit.com/steem/@zombee/how-to-stop-almost-all-abuse-on-steem

Here are some of my Meme's that didn't get upvotes. They took a lot of times and they consisted of a lot of layers. The animated GIF was like 112 layers I had to modify.

These are original and I have a hard time believing anyone can look at these and then go over to dMania and look at the stuff he is upvoting and say those are better. I know it's subjective...... but REALLY???? It isn't just me there are other people experiencing this too.

The way dMania feels is exactly the same way we all felt on Steemit in mid 2016 just wishing for an upvote. It is using too much of my mental energy so I'm done. You guys can decide what you want to do. I'm moving my meme game else where. The delegated power would be better off supporting original content in my opinion.

In a weird turn of events I'm not getting upvotes from dMania but I'm now getting automatically upvoted by Hive account@craig-grant after I have been one of the most out spoken people against his promotion of the ShitConnect Ponzi! Figure that one out. And no I never communicated with him about any of this. His upvotes started a couple of days ago when I made a video about him Hive account@trevonjb and Hive account@berniesanders .