Yeah, thanks for clarifying everything. As you can see in my profile, I've been here for 2 years already. I did make a lot of money but not strictly through Steem but by socializing, among many things. I sadly lost a lot of it because I didn't take care of the lowering prices of cryptocurrency :(

But anyway, I know this is kind of a dry market at the moment for strictly content producers right now, and that you need way more to make money with Steem only. Aggroed has done well with Steem Monsters, and so have a few other business owners around here. Others have used the platform to pitch themselves into curation posts. It can pay well.

But Steem right now, for most people, you included, I imagine, is mostly complementary in terms of money. I use it mostly for fun, because it's built around a better idea than Reddit, for example, where if someone likes your post, they pay the Reddit company to give you a golden badge, instead of giving you the reward personally, lol. I've been exploring it the last couple of days to see what the changes have been, a lot is different than in 2018 :)