I use to hope for whale to come visit.
There was a time catchawhale.com was one site I visit in the beginning.
Then came the whale no voting experiment which I guess sort of force some of us to grow up on our own. I think some left and came back when the price of steem and SBD went back up and regretted not persisting.
To all those who relentless work hard (and I don't mean the scammers and spammers), congratulations.