^{Rather than paying for views, I'll just continue creating things for you to look at.}

I hope that's alright with you.

Clean It Up

Yeah

^{I don't mind.}

Maybe it won't be my best work every single day but it'll be something.

Yes. It's time to come clean.

I came here to be an independent artist. No middleman. I came here to do my own thing. I've been here awhile.

When you buy your votes, you push my work down.

Why not just flag me?

^{It's the same thing.}

September 2016, I arrived here. Being here finally gave me a chance to pick up an old hobby, do something I'm good at, and allowed me to break out of my shell so I could entertain a few folks along the way.

They say you can't make money here, yet I made nearly 21000 SP, took a tiny bit out, reinvested, made more. Yes, I came to make some money as well. I'm surrounded by millionaires so don't hate me because I came here to make money.

If you come to Steemit, the first thing you learn is you can make money by blogging. They didn't say how to blog, so I do my own thing. So that's how you make money here. It's their sales pitch, it's true, and the place works.

You can look around. You can find ways to buy visibility, views. That's the sales pitch those services offer.

Views don't make money here though, you need votes for that.

I still get views, I don't pay for them. People look. Thanks, everyone.

I didn't pay you to do that and it didn't cost you anything to vote for me. As a matter of fact, I work so you can take a share of 25% of the rewards I earn. I don't mind at all. You comment on my post and there's a good chance of earning more on top of that. I don't mind, at all. Rarely do I ignore those who decided to give me their time of day. We talk, it's fun, I like it.

Scroll down to the bottom of my blog someday.

^{Look at all that work.}

Now slowly scroll up. Watch me climb that ladder. Watch how I earned. Don't hate that. I didn't do anything to you. I worked, I did my own thing, and I did it my way. I didn't kiss anyone's ass for that. I didn't game the system. I didn't "rape" the reward pool.

I worked hard. Simple stuff.

Now you buy your votes and push me down, hold me back. You want views, not money. You don't want what I have so why fuck with me? Why bump everyone else down? Why push them away too? Why not just flag them? It's free. Doesn't cost you a dime to do the same thing you're doing if you buy those votes. You could just as easily go around and flag everyone so your work stands out, free of charge. You'd rather pay to do that?

Now I see a few established veterans jumping ship, turning their backs on everyone, buying votes.

So now what? Force me to pay? Take away everything I've worked for? Give yourselves a pat on the back. You couldn't resist the temptation to knock people down. Thanks.

That's it. That's all.

^{I'm still here.}

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