Absolutely agree with you. If you're getting salty because you're not attracting "big money" like you were beforehand, maybe you should pull up your britches and get back to work.

There's two things going on here: first, the valuation of STEEM, right now, is well below its $4 USD high back in July. This means that each vote - even whale votes - are inherently not worth as much as they were back then. So yes, of course your reward earnings have fallen off - EVERYONE'S have.

Also, let's get real here: you can adjust your voting power. This means that if a whale does give you an upvote, you are unlikely to get their 100% reward because they're diluting it on purpose. No, not because your content isn't "good enough" to receive a full upvote - because this allows whales to spread their votes more widely, increasing the distribution of funds across a larger number of accounts. Don't get pissed because we're all sharing in the benefits of that, you spoiled brats.