Personally I never had whale support. Literally never.

I am here a full year and during this period a couple of whale upvotes landed on my posts (probably by accident :P)
But I don't mind nor I am jealous of those who have whale support. Some of them work hard and deserve it some others don't (always according to my judgement)

In any case I keep building my network and powering up almost daily. And do what I enjoy most. Reading as many blogs as I can, upvote as many people as I can and comment when I feel I have something useful to add