How goes the Steem battle today?

The current mood on Steem has me walking down memory lane considering my own Steem experience.

When I first started on SteemIt, I did four posts a day. Usually a story of some sort, a status report on how my SteemIt experience was going, A "Hot Chick Pic" and I don't remember what else. lol, as I mentioned in a recent post - some of those, many of those didn't receive enough to create a payout. However, the process was fun and it likely improved my writing and definitely my focus. Overtime I quit trying to try everything and I also quit trying to limit myself to a topic or area. I am too inconsistent to do pull that off. I just write what I am thinking about and that might be of interest.

Here is a flashback to a "Hot Chick Pic". They were pictures of my own flock with some sort of nasty, pornish sounding titles. I came up with the idea while I was trying to identify the breed of a chick, and I googled "Black Chicks". lol, I had a lot of fun with the "Hot Chick Pics".

* "Hot Chick Pic of the Day - Teens"

This one was featured - Here.

Not many liked the one called, "Hey check out my big Cockerel"

LOL, but a couple received a nice payout when @blocktrades voted on them occasionally. That was enough to keep trying.

I've written a few posts recently about how things were hard when we were minnows also. I've spent many hours reading and writing on Steem. Some of the time was spent building an audience, but some of it also was honing my own skills, and learning how to be comfortable with what I have to offer. It just is what it is.

I've been here for 22 moons according to steemd, I've tried a bit of fiction, a few personal stories, art, commentary seems to be my thing and I write about Steem a lot, because it is often on my mind and it is the one thing we all have in common. As I have gotten to know the community it gets harder to share really personal stories. Isn't that odd, for me it was easier when the site felt more anonymous.

I've made some friends, and learned a few things, I am getting more comfortable with accepting my own up and down phases in generating interest in what I write about. I've have to admit I'm not Shakespeare either. Once I got more comfortable with just being who I am and saying what I have to say, things got much better and I no longer sweat about it.

As I said recently, #justkeepposting

This is how I am doing.

My rep is currently at 69,
I have 4475 followers,
I've made 8127 posts, including comments.
I have 13,435.559 STEEM powered up. Worth somewhere around 50k USD (rounding for price variation)
Which ranks my account at 863rd largest, by "Own Steem Power" on https://mysteemitfriends.online/#
I'll let you judge whether that is success or failure.

Status report for @whatsup

I'm still here and still posting, what is your status?

@whatsup