Everyone wants to be one, a whale on Steemit. But as a minnow I found myself questioning if it's still possible to become a whale nowadays. Of course there are a lot of people with a lot of voting power, but most big accounts I see are accounts that make giveaways or contests, not saying there is anything wrong with these types of accounts. But to start doing these things you already need to have a considerable amount of Steem. Of course there are also big accounts who work hard for their followers and content, and I'm not at all saying that they
For these accounts growth is quite easy because they don't have to work hard to produce their content and they grow quite a lot, I can't say I'm not guilty of commenting on these accounts but I feel like it's not how Steemit is supposed to be
I am wondering if it is possible to grow in the Steemit ranks, I think around 70% of the Steemit userbase has less than 1000 Sp and as a minnow I know how hard it is to grow and gain followers by consistently producing quality content if there are near to no rewards. Of course you can use bots to upvote your posts but this does not give the deserved reward I feel like.
Every post I do I might get 1 follower extra for the hour of work I put into the post, and altough I want to succeed and pursui my dream of playing a larger role in this amazing platform it's sometimes hard for me to keep the motivation.
As for Minnows, I see a lot of them with better content than some biggers accounts, yet they don't even get a fraction of what other people get by simply doing giveaways. I think you can compare the Steemit ecosystem a bit to the real world, where the rich only get richer and it's hard for poor people to work their way up the ladders.
These are some of my concerns about Steemit and how people can grow on it