To me images don't play a huge role unless it's an artistic entry. I don't need pictures if I read a long text or poetry I find it disturbing especially if the pictures are a collection form everywhere and are added every few lines. in average 5 pictures asked by many hostst of contests is way too much for the short text.
I rather don't share photos/pictures since it takes me a lot of time to upload them and just that picture and markdowns take me longer than writing itself. Sometimes I share my own photo's other times pixabay or a youtube video it depends on the text. For a while I only used a picture with one word which I find enough.
All those pictures is also a long way scrolling to the top or the bottom which is makes it harder to find a certain part of text or to upvote or find that reply button.
Same for this post by the way, I have to scroll up to see what the questions are again.
Is there a reason you add twice such a big picture to promote @xpilar and next steemworld and so on? It's hard to find the questions/text.

Emojis? The first time I heard about it was on Steemit and there was a contest hosted by @marblely where we should write a post by using mainly emojis which took me nearly the entire Saturday!
I don't use them much just the heart and green clover most of the times but it also depends on whom I talking to and if in more a hurry because it takes time to load them and next add them in the comment section. Is it appreciated?

Would I write entire texts while using emojis? Not really, it's not me, it also makes text more chaotic for me to read. At times it helps to understand a mood but in many cases I also don't understand why a certain emoji is used which means there's still a misunderstanding.

I takes me time to puzzle which will be my first, preferably 4 hashtags, I try to point it out to others but it feels at a lost battle at forehand. I am tires of repeating the same story over and over again and if it comes to it no once gives a damn. The worst posts, with the worst grammar and hashtag abuse are upvoted so the point of using the right hashtags is? I would say promoting Steemit but Steemit itself doesn't care except for the hashtag #steeexclusive everyone can lie about and SC01 and 02 could check but most likely won't. This means I will continue my journey for me and see how I can make myself visible and if Steemit has profit from it that's great for them. I don't expect any change also not now the links of communities are changed into names.

If you have a link with the latest news about hashtags please share it with me, thank you.