One final thing I've noticed that makes me really sad is that posts about crypto and steems get more attention, what if i don't want to talk about those things, i want to go outside the box and express my thoughts, I'm seen as unserious.

You can talk about anything you want to on here, the only reason you are not using the right tags and also expanding your community, you need to get into more community apart from the ones the Uyo community where there are alot of persons with low steem power, just group on discord share your links there while following the rules and you would see that your earnings on your out-of -the-box posts would certainly increase in earnings.