I'm trying out posting microblogs. I don't see the point of spending up to an hour writing and editing photos to get maybe one comment and 10 cents in upvotes. With the low price of steem, microblogging might attract more users if the old timers don't give them a hard time about "quality" content.

I noticed that one of my microblogs (one photo and two sentences) has 52 cents in upvotes already.

As for trending, all those posts have either purchased votes, self-voted, voted from second accounts, or whales upvoted each other. Nothing wrong with that, but a lot of the vote-sellers won't allow votes to go to microblogs. Some of the smaller bidbots might not have such restrictions.