I'm with ya. The whole bottoming out of the market has driven away quite a bit of spam, and made mining on GPUs for PoW coins much easier. Maybe not profitable now, but as prices rise...
You get the idea. Regardless, I'm still making my usual blog posts, streaming on @vimm, and answering @musing questions. The payouts are still coming, even if they're only a little bit of steem at a time. But those posts do add up! I've earned almost 50 Steem since the beginning of December. I could not have done that last year!
None of us could actually. This commitment and effort will eventually pay off