Yes. Blame me. Blame me for your failure and continue guilt tripping me into oblivion, where I belong. I'll go stick my tail between my legs now and you can go explain to thousands of people why you failed to offer them some income for supporting your work.

No whales would be downvoting you if you managed to attract paying consumers willing to purchase millions of tokens from the market in order to support your work. That's what you fail to realize.

Wouldn't you rather see your own following take the cut from curation than these "evil whales" you demonized?

And who needs help? It's been this long and you still fail to realize the potential here, even when I've laid out some simple math for you to think about. That's thousands of dollars annually, and you're sitting here whining about a few dollars downvoted, threatening to quit, then whine to your following to ice the cake? You clearly need help...

You consistently ask for donations. If someone donates, that consumer throws their money away, then has to donate again and again. They could spend that exact same amount of money, support you FOREVER with Hive upvotes, get a return on their investment, and you can still go ahead and buy new equipment, beer, salad, fries, whatever. It's a far better deal to you, as well as your consumers. That, is what all you folks with your big followings, fail, to realize. Plus, by creating demand for the token, yours and well as their holdings can potentially increase in value. One content creator working in this fashion can do a lot, now imagine if their were thousands working like this, and millions of paying consumers.

^{P.S. I didn't downvote you, nor am I a whale. Blaming me is in your nature though since, by the looks of things, spreading misinformation is your forte.}