Has Steemit Always Been This Way?

I'm just starting to get into Steemit. When I first started familiarizing myself with the website I was really excited. Reading about Hive account@sweetsssj swimming with pigs. Following Hive account@papa-pepper through whatever he was doing. Even watching Hive account@jerrybanfield do whatever he can to make Steemit a better place. Everything I was reading was original content. Then I started sorting by new. I wanted to start reading and giving some attention to the new people (like me) on Steemit so they don't get discouraged. But it seemed every blog I looked it was just a picture of a cat with a title "Cat so cute" or a link to someone else's video.

Honestly it was just keeping me away. Every once and a while I'd find some original content with more than two lines of text. It's even OK with me if someone links a video that's not their own, but at least offer an opinion on it. Every time I make a post it's typed, proofread, and edited by me. I've deleted posts dozens of time because I didn't feel like the content was worthy enough of a full post.

I want to write more. I want to make quality, thought out content that is unique and grammatically correct (as long as Windows catches my spelling errors). I don't want everything I post to get passed up by people like me who get sick of the "upvote me, I want to be rich" and "im broke af fam i need the pussy" posts.

Now I feel selfish because I typed "I" so many times. Maybe it's just me. I just bought a bunch of Steem so I can give some new creators a little Hive account@randowhale love. I will still search through the crap to help people who put just a little bit of time into their content.

Thanks for reading. Sometimes bitching about stuff helps.