Hard fork.... A bitter truth

The recent upgrade in steemit has left me with no upvotes no followers who were up voting earlier... Its been really demotivating and I am now thinking of leaving the platform as no positive response is coming after staying together in the hard time... I hardly get any upvotes. It was a really good journey before the upgrade but now it seems only the core members earn from here and we steemers are just being mocked by upvoting thm. As they dont upvote back. The only place where one earns is introduceyourself post. Apart from that no earning is there.. And also people upvotes girls posts more than boys... Pure racism even here..... I am sorry but this is TRUTH