and everything became incredibly bland and boring and samey, especially those pathetic losers that "spin"/copypaste other people's posts hoping to benefit

It's partly from the positive reinforcement of the algorithms used by index and crawlers per platform. Bloggers figured out that if they want visibility, they need to play by the algorithms rules and the free creatives had to adapt or die. I know there are pieces of work out there that is buried from curation because the bloggers didn't really know how to optimize searchability for their content.

Audience is 100% the problem here, this is why I don't have one

LOL, right message wrong audience, or right message wrong platform. I can't blame anyone for not being interested into what I post the same way I'm not interested in engaging in someone else's scribbles. But it doesn't matter what our personal preferences are because there's an algorithm in almost all social media platforms that curates the what we see for us.

Ego searches usually works when you've gotten a lot of digital footprints to multiple sites. It took a while before I could see adamada linked to my profile on regular searches.