Don't allow that get to you. Just have a passion for being here. Keep posting original content. Have a look at this Daily Steem Stats Report - Wednesday, September 06, 2017 which was done by Hive account@penguinpablo. I took screenshot of number of posts which you could see below:

As you could see, just yesterday we had almost 100,000 posts, you will agree with me that there's no way all of them would get noticed. I'm not showing you these numbers to discourage you, but rather it is to encourage you to keep on posting. Try and develop more passion for steemit and you would get to reap the benefits. I'll be upvoting you now. Not a whale...yet :)

Regards,
Hive account@greenrun ... still running ✌️