I only mean those of you who actually are awesome - a lot of people (or are they just bots?) on Steemit are totally crap - so no thanks to you!
I have a really cool Samsung tablet with a stylus, and I often read Steemit on that. But I'm no millennial, I'm an old fart, so I never attempt to type words on it with my finger. And that is why I often read and upvote posts but don't comment. Now that makes me sound like just another cog in the machine, but I do have free will. And I suppose I could even write some comments with my stylus and post them as images.
Because I've just been doing an experiment of starting up a new account that I set up to test some stuff - 
We are all a bit bummed out that our payouts are really crap at the moment, and our crypto investments have been totally spanked. Losing shit loads of $ (even if it is all imaginary just like fiat money) and only getting 1/10th of the rewards we used to get is very discouraging.
We are depressed has beens. But thankfully, even without much money, we are still us, and some of us are OK. You know who you are, and you post some cool shit. Thanks for posting so much cool shit.
On my new account its been a month now and I have a plan for phase two. For the first month I just wanted to see if I could start off a new account without a bunch of help from my friends. That went OK, and the rep, wallet, and getting some followers part is done. For stage two I want to be a bit more experimental.
Meanwhile, on this, my original Steemit account, I feel like its time to make more effort to be encouraging. To fling pocket change at people and say "AWESOME" over and over like a horny parrot. I never really did that enough before because I'm not a whale. But now that all the whales seem to have fucked off somewhere, its time for us little dolphins to frolic.