My 7 Day Experience Into dMania. The "Meme" Side Of Steemit.

What's happening and positive today in your world Steem family?

It's another day of mostly blessings for most of us. Sure, there may be challenges,
but that's how the YOUniverse nudges us to GROW.

As promised, here is my dMania report after jumping in and posting for the past 7 days.

For anyone new to Steemit, it isn't long before they begin to see posts from other 3rd party Steemit apps such as "dTube" (Steemits answer to the Yewtube censorship problems), and "dMania" which is a Steemit 3rd party app for memes and recently added short video clips. My attraction to it was the fact that as an inspirational person, coach, and mentor to people, I have made hundreds of memes over the years for Phakebook and other social media sites.

So I was intrigued when I saw simple pictures of humorous comedy pics, pics of cats, pics of Steemit memes and just about anything you can think of, (and many things you have probably never thought of) making in some cases $50.00 to $100.00+ US dollars per meme post. 😱

This I had to investigate.

What it presents opportunity wise, community wise, influence wise, and reward wise for Steemians is just that, more opportunities to share, connect, and reach others while sharing your content.

So I decided to test the waters to see if those $100.00 posts were within my reach. I decided to do a 7 day challenge and post 1 or more memes each day and then track my statistics.

As with everything on this platform (and most others), there is always a learning curve.
But how hard could posting memes be? And could I possibly retire on just posting memes alone?

So here's the breakdown:

Side note: A BIG factor for anyone posting content almost anywhere is going to be
the number of "followers" and supporters one has. At the time of my experiment,
I had between 111 and 116 followers.

THIS is why it is so important to have and support others in the community on a
regular and consistent basis.

Again thinking "WE" instead of "Me" will take you much further in life
and the ride will be filled with so much more.

So without further adieu, here is the actual breakdown of the dMania showdown for 7 days:

My total number of Image posts - 15

Total votes received from the community over the 7 day experiment period - 73

Average upvotes with my current following (plus random Steemers)
= 4 to 9 upvotes per posted meme.

Conclusion for now - dMania is simple and fast. I would say “average post time” between upload of photo, description, and keyword tags is about 2 minutes, maybe less. I’m sure I could do a post in around 1 minute if that was my focus. This was a learning experiment, so a little longer as I was calculating some information while learning.

It's basically a simple 4 step process: 1. Upload image. 2. Add description. 3. Add relevant tags (up to 4 allowed). 4. Hit the "post" button.

IMHO, the tradeoff is little to no engagement with your audience or other Steemers, as people don't normally take the time to leave comments from what I saw, however an upvote is considered an upvote any way you slice it.

For me, I find that engaging with the community is more important than posting memes, and more satisfying as I get to "connect" with new and old friends as well all over the globe. "Real" connection is something that has actually declined with so many just posting away on social media in the past 10+ years.

With the areas that I am truly passionate about globally, community contribution and engagement is of most importance to me because THIS is how WE continue to create positive change in the world and within our individual as well as global communities. A "lone wolf" Steemian will continue to be a lone wolf and his/her impact will always be limited compared to one who engages and supports / is supported in a larger community / communities. From my experience and vantage point, this journey of life was clearly meant to be shared as a "whole" in Unity, as opposed to the "lone wolf" who has a struggle to make it on his own.

THIS is why building communities with higher values is so essential for the betterment of Humanity. It is why I am FULLY supportive of our Steemit platform and will protect it from anything that diminishes, scams, or provides negativity in ANY way.

To use one of my friends Keni Styles favorite terms, "Wholeness" is the "way".
Another one of my favorites is "Oneness".

For me, they both represent the power of coming together in UNITY,
which equals putting aside our differences and finding "Soul utions"
to make this world a better place for ALL.

And our community is committed to that.

This is the "way" moving forward. 🙏

A special heartfelt shoutout to the following members in our community for their continued support
and contributions to positive content: @kenistyles, @artemislives, @lewisfjclarke, @heartjourney, @iamjamie, @kevstardog, @iliasdiamantis, @eftnow, @kalemandra, @linksmolecules.

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Thanks to our Steemit community for supporting, upvoting, re-steeming, & connecting!

Keep Shining 🙏 . Jeff