Hf21/22 happened back in September 2019, and since then we have a bit more honest curation on Steem. Looking at the top payed authors should give us some idea. Before that, it was all about bots.
This post is partly inspired by 
The numbers presented here are for December 2019.
Here is the chart:
The table:
| No | Auhtor | STEEM |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  @burnpost | 13,399 |
| 2 |  @cryptopie | 4,299 |
| 3 |  @tarazkp | 3,880 |
| 4 |  @gooddream | 3,773 |
| 5 |  @donekim | 3,749 |
| 6 |  @steemcleaners | 3,656 |
| 7 |  @esteemapp | 3,490 |
| 8 |  @clixmoney | 3,166 |
| 9 |  @taskmaster4450 | 3,092 |
| 10 |  @lovelyyeon.sct | 3,082 |
| 11 |  @cryptoinvestsvk | 2,991 |
| 12 |  @joythewanderer | 2,966 |
| 13 |  @jrcornel | 2,869 |
| 14 |  @fenrir78 | 2,737 |
| 15 |  @cyberrn | 2,587 |
| 16 |  @tradingideas | 2,479 |
| 17 |  @travelgirl | 2,456 |
| 18 |  @kingscrown | 2,440 |
| 19 |  @lucky2 | 2,419 |
| 20 |  @papa-pepper | 2,389 |
Well now is official. The burn post is by far the most rewarded author on the Steem Blockchain. For those who don’t know the 
Note that the numbers above are authors rewards only. Curation rewards are not included for these accounts.
After burnpost, we can see some close competition between some of the known authors on Steem. What I can notice that there are few authors from 3Speak, and from the Korean communities.
The list above is probably not ideal, but its far better than before HF21/22.
As bonus here are the top 10 post with larges payout in December 2019.
Quite decent I would say. All legit posts. The payouts include authors and curation rewards.
All in all looks like we are making progress.
15% of the reward on this post goes to 
The query for the data:
@quochuy
@thehipsterguru
@arcange
@theycallmedan
@openseed
@exyle
@kadjar
@stoodkev
@wehmoenSELECT*
FROM VOAuthorRewards (NOLOCK)
WHERE
CONVERT(DATE,timestamp) BETWEEN '2019-12-01' AND '2019-12-31'
All the best
