A friend of mine from a forum got me to Join this community, after much talk with him I was excited to join the Steemit community, I told myself that I will drop all my other Online marketing projects and focus on Steemit, he told me quality content was Key and that I must join all the Facebook groups and other groups also to interact with the community at large, Very Exciting to make money while blogging hey! Well I did everything he said I must, started dedicating everyday and all day to Steemit, I SPEND ROUGHLY 15 HOURS EVERYDAY ON STEEMIT, most of my time is spent upvoting good content, reading peoples content, going through peoples Profiles and studying what makes them successful.
1. All the Succesful Steemit Users are a Part of a group where they upvote each others posts and usually members of those groups have been on steemit since 2016 and they have became whales, they joined the platform when it was easy to grow and became a whale so now they have manipulated it in a way where it will be only profitable to them and for us small time users its almost impossible to be succesful “were Chasing Fools Gold”.
2. Whales don’t have time to Read Comment, they are too busy upvoting comments of other whales, so even if you only post quality posts you will never grow or be accepte in the community because whales don’t have time to read your content, they are too busy manipulatin the platform and making tons of money in the process. E.g 
3. Yesterday I stumbled on a group of guys from China, well I did it by mistake, I notices that there were new accounts that just blow up from the blue then I realized when I saw whose upvoting those guys are the exact same people, then as I went deeper in my research I saw that it’s a group from China and they have some sort of system. These groups are all over.
4. This Article https://steemit.com/video/@masteryoda/360-or-nasa-s-curiosity-mars-rover-at-namib-dune made over $2k and had over 200 upvoted but only 8 people actually viewed this article. HOW DOES THAT WORK????????!!!!!
and I feel Sad that I have come to this discovery, my heart is really painful because I believed in Steemit so much that I dropped all my other stuff and decided to dedicate all my time to this platform only to discover This, I feel like I let myself down, I should have been wiser, I wasn’t making much with internet marketing, I was making $250 a month but that helped a lot with things at home, and some went to my moms medical bills, anyway I wont quit Just as yet, but my heart is very painful to say the least.
Want to end with these words: “Everything I touch ends in fail
and it pains me like I am pricked with a nail
I used to think why it happens for a while
but my thoughts goes on endless like a river nile
somehow I have to put an end to it
but I couldn 't find a soul helping me in doing it... “ W