I am real. And so is this post. It is going to become a requirement that everyone get bots to stay relevant because their abuse is so widespread now. I haven't had any legitimate commenters for my own video uploads, but bots. All of the upvoted, visible posts now have this artificial "steem" power, no longer human effort. The bots are so widespread now, it is probably too late already, and steemit will not go mainstream.