Congratulations on your growing success here.
I, too, noticed some parallels to certain game playing. And liked the experience to the game Clash of Clans in a post from over 16 hours ago called "My Upvote's Run Out of Gas" - Observations of the Hard Fork & Maximizing Our Affectability (A Red Fish's Point of View) (which is getting very little attention or exposure, so frustrating being a Red Fish under the shadow of the Minnows, Dolphins, and Whales).
In trying to figure out what you are doing right I am failing in pinning down what I am doing wrong!
So often I see others posting content similar to mine hours and even days after my post, and yet I can't seem to draw the same attention they do.
It's frustrating, but I am not giving up. I prefer to put the community before the profits (while not entirely ignoring the potential for said profits, I need a new PC to create better content- right now I am creating a GIF to post soon, and my laptop sounds like it is launching to the moon and is hot enough to cook an egg on).