I agree with you.

We minnows are wide eyed and swimming with whales. Since content was good enough to earn some dollars. But i feel they dont deserve that $1000 mark.

However, they have little weighted content. Some posts and accounts i can see they had great following and returns just because they are whales.

I am in no way to offense any one, but you can see some lady accounts with some glamour pics in them sharing their opinions, introductions, travelling and sharing some coindesk updates are really top trending. Now they are on the way to become a mini whale or may be equal to whale. This explains just like similar chaos which was echoing the gender based popularity and importance on the social platforms like twitter and instagram.

May be steemit soon should face the same in future and if the day arrives many worthy minnows would be in a great frustration. Finally that may turning to accusing the platform and community. This may happen or may not. I don't know....

Note: The above comment is my personal opinion in this situation and not to criticize the other users work. I love many people's(both the genders) work of sharing their personal travels etc. I do follow them.