I understand your frustration @whatsup! I can only recommend you keep pushing! Don't stop, just keep going. We are minnows for two simple reasons: we came late and/or we have low capital. I would liked to know about STEEM and steemit just 6 months ago, you would be receiving an upvote, resteem and follow from a dolphin or maybe a whale, but you know what? We can still keep growing! Real fish can't pick to change species, we can! We are actually little whales growing, not any other species. Just keep up the hard work!

Also recommend you to follow the tag #usesteem, we are blogging about why it is critical for everyone here to #usesteem, where to use it and strategy for becoming a whale. You can join the cause by just using the tag :D. We'll report progress periodically.

-- @develcuy