Next month, I’ll be celebrating my fifth year on Hive!

congratulations!

Never before have I invested this much time, energy, and even my own money into the digital world.

Same here. I am slowly buying HBD. And at one point I had a winning posting streak of few years(?). It has been broken but at the moment I am happier with my content than I was during that streak. So I also intend to continue making content on Hive for a very long time.