Content generation is like fundamentals in share market.if you post quality content over a prolonged period of time, you will get noticed, your followers will increase. Just like a blue Chip company in which the fundamentals of balance sheet and Goodwill are high.

The other issue being a temporary hype through speculation. In this a stock may do well for a short time by fluke. Steemit content are the same. To attract whales and followers , one has to keep generating quality content. There are no short cuts

This is a very inspiring and encouraging post. The message is genuine and promotes quality, which can only be benefitial for everyone in the long term. Writing for money only has no longevity. Like anything else really ( specially if you don't get it ! ). I would soon lose heart! Again, great post!

this is super helpful..I did the same dance move when a whale vote me...steem on! :)followed you for more articles.

Thanks for the post, 
#whalepower

Nice informative post keep it up waiting for next ;-) 
dont forget to follow and Upvote plz @akraees

Thanks for your post, I needed this today :) I will quit waiting for that whale and concentrate on my voice. Will a whale find me? I hope so but I'm not holding my breath waiting. I shall continue taking my baby steps, if upvotes come along the way, great but if not, I'm still growing ever so slowly :)

Extremely wise words. 

Very reminiscent of real life. If you spend all your time trying to fit in to a crowd you'll never be happy no matter what rewards come your way. But if you continue to just be yourself, live your life your own way and enjoy what makes you happy.......good things will most likely come faster. 

I'm not advocating any particular mindset but I do know that when you try to either change yourself for others or for some perceived beneficial outcome (and the outcome isn't immediately forthcoming) it has a way of destoying you a little inside. But the other way, well you'll never lose your integrity and someday, one day it'll pay off and if it doesn't then you're still the same you. But you've most likely met a lot of cool, like minded individuals along the way. 

It reminds me of many past relationships where I've twisted and warped who I was because its what I thought others wanted, I lost myself. And the longer you do that you lose more than you gain. 

Amazing post, very inspiring!!

Hello! - I am trying to make new friends and I would love to get some feedback from you. Feel free to upvote my content and I will do the same.

Great advise. Most of these "whales" have invested a lot of time in building their profile and some have invested a lot of $$ as well. 

I would love a whale to find me, the closest I got is a comment from @jerrybanfield :) 

Hopefully one day I can be one of these whales lol ;) But yes, take your time, build your steem business - the rewards will come. 

In the meantime... have fun and steem on.

Nice post - I get super excited if I get 1 dollar - I am sure the posts I put up will not even catch the eye of a whale and that is fine by me - I am having fun in in a years time my newby followers that started with me will be old followers and still vote for me.  I will swim in my little pond and enjoy it until it is time for me to move to a bigger pond :)

I enjoy the post and I can remotely understand how you feel and what you think, but this made me remember one person I met.

I'm rather using steemit chat than discord, but I'm happy to use both. One person sent me a PM and asked how I was and wanted me to go through his posts. This kept on going, even though I told him that he's not writing the type of content I'm looking after and gave some tips.

Then he finally asked, how much worth is my upvote. I told him how much $ I'm giving with my current vote and he was like "Oh ok then" and stopped sending me messages.

Now I don't know if I'm happy he finally listened to me and stopped bothering me or not, as certainly I wasn't.. good enough for his level?

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Very nice and practical tips... thanks for sharing. It really helps a lot especially newbies like us.

It's not even so much about getting whale votes, it's just about understanding simple human psychology. If someone's interested in something, they'll be glad to help the author out. First you have to care about your target audience though. Everyone's selfish at the end of the day, so you have to try to limit your own selfishness and write and connect with other people.. giving, giving, giving and expecting as little as possible in return. You will eventually get rewarded, but you should continue with your journey on giving out as much as possible :)

AGREEEEE! Love this - I never really look for the attention from them, but it is nice when you get that up vote from a whale! I really just like sharing my content for my viewers and creating my own following off of that

Thank you for this post. I have printed a hardcopy of it and pinned it beside my PC monitor to motivate myself.  I worked really hard on my posts but no one seems to notice them.  For instance, take this post of mine where I touched [humans achieving immortality through science](https://steemit.com/life/@bba/eternal-life-vs-eternal-youth-if-you-have-to-choose-what-would-it-be) by the year 2045.  Only 10 people have read it since I posted last night - me included, twice even.  I appreciate if you or the readers here could read it?  Here is the link: [https://steemit.com/life/@bba/eternal-life-vs-eternal-youth-if-you-have-to-choose-what-would-it-be](https://steemit.com/life/@bba/eternal-life-vs-eternal-youth-if-you-have-to-choose-what-would-it-be)

Very nice article we all have to start at the bottom and work!!!!! our way up that is just my opinion. Thanks for a good post.

<p>This post has received a 8.23 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @hitmeasap.</p>

This is an awesome post.  If you go around just trying to please whales then you are gonna have a bad time.  For a while I would use "catch a whale" tool but that never worked.  it basically tells you if a whale is currently curating; it doesn't know how the next 30 minutes to an hour is going to be as far as upvote power... no one does.  So write posts that are good as thats the best you can do.

Beautiful minds here. I love the positivity. And thanks @hitmeasap good article there.

Beautiful minds in here, I love the positivity. Nice write up @hitmeasap

still don't get it how it works, probably it will be useless if I use SEO and internet marketing stuff to drive traffic to my post right?

Thanks for the post.  Reminds me of Field of Dreams, "Build it and they will come."  Put out great material and they will find you, follow you and vote for you.

That was good article. Im new here on steemit and i appreciate articles like this.
Keep up with good work

Honestly, I expected click bait and snake oil. Instead, I stumble into a really great article that could have been :
> How to attach whales. No, stop that. You do you.

It wasn't concise. It wasn't elegant. It was totally honest and reassuring for us goldfish. Thank you.