For me seeing all that drama was just a re - run of everything i saw in the first few weeks behind closed doors on steemit. What was said behind doors and in public was VERY different. I think the pattern is quite simple we tend to hate and get triggered by what we are till we own it. A lot of the bullying behaviour came from probably a lack of feeling powerful or in control in the 'real world'. A lot came in with a very strong I hate the government, fb, anyone rich mentality. They hated not having power/control and being controlled.... fair enough me too lol but they then quickly took control of steemit and began being the people they hate to the smaller fish, without i doubt acknowledging they had become the people they hated. Then when someone came along and did to them what they had been doing to others for years all hell broke loose. I can't really say anything about justin postive or negative. He is a business man and to me has only ever been authentic in that he wants to make money. I can respect people who i know what I am getting. The way some people behaved to him you can't blame some of his actions. So far since the main bullies no longer have power there I. have never had one interaction with anyone on the steemit blockchain that has been anything but pleasant. .I have just never personally felt controlled or treated badly there over recent months. I know some people would like me to hate steemit because they personally lost out but those ppl bullied me and others and took from smaller users to build themselves and their circle up anyways. There are amazing people on hive and steemit and all across the platform. I guess social media will always end up in drama to a degree I have really started to focus more time on NFT sites now, the communities are more focused on their art and supporting oneanother and the platform owners realise that happy contributors and helping build their contributors up makes the site better. I'll share a few bits on the blogs but to put real focus on the platforms seems like it's an energy drain as so much politics, it's become like fb and just a smaller bubble of the larger world. Some other sites just seem to stay more about the creating and supporting one another. That does happen here too but then it just gets over ran by the politics and games and power struggles. I mean what does Pfunk do or talk about? I notice a lot oof those rly heavy into the politics and bullying don't rly do anything, maybe that time could be focused really learning a skill.

Thankyou for speaking up and sharing your story <3, I got to the point I would rather be honest and speak up than have a few 20 dollar posts. There are too many platforms now, so if we are going to get attacked and taken away from for sharing our truth, so be it.

I would just like to add a lot of the whales you talk about stayed on steemit, under their own or new names and continued to blog there to get money. They only stopped when they were banned. They also self vote and post memes and share songs (things they flagged us for doing). I honestly couldnn't care less what ppl do, freedom for all but it is one rule for them and another for us lol