Naa this is not part of the problem, America. See, what you should have done is you should have seen this amazing but peculiar work of art and gotten curious as to just why it has that much upvote and be prompted to check out the artist's other works.
If you had done this, you see, you would have found that this artist is definitely without a doubt one of the best on the entire steem blockchain, who has not only put up a lot of amazing awe-inspiring works of art, but has done so on a terrifyingly consistent basis.
You would have found out that it is majorly because of this TRUST that she has built on the platform, with regards to the quality of her works and her consistency, that allows her to make such a carefree but beautiful post and still make a decent amount of money on it.
What I'm saying, you see, is that success on steemit -- or pretty much in life and anywhere else -- goes much deeper than what's on the surface, but the collective cumulative effort that has gone towards getting to that point in time.
And this is why others like you can see that surface and assume it is the only aspect of the story, but you couldnt be more wrong.
It is why a great artist like Picasso can paint a stick and people call it high art and an amateur can paint the universe and it goes unrecognized. It is why Hemingway can write about a man sitting by a lake all through his story and it is regarded as the greatest story ever written while a newbie may write about galactic travels and grear creatures and still not get appreciation past his immediate family.
And yaa, I understand your struggle. It's tough to get recognition online or elsewhere for that matter when you're just starting out. It's frustrating as hell and it even seems as though there are forces actively working to stop you from achieving your goals; "conspiracy" as you call it.
And maybe there are, maybe there are not.
But the thing you shouldn't do is attack other people's integrity just because they've put in the work over the years and achieved something you're still aiming at.
That, my friend, is #therealproblemamerica.
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