Here is something interesting from my Whale watching, a new user that just registered on Steemit, going by the username @htyfn is already with a reputation of 50 after a few Whale votes. He only posted a joke, this is his first post and he got almost $200 SBD reward an hour later. This is an example of pure luck on Steemit... as most people have to work hard and make a lot of blog posts in order to reach a reputation level of 50 and have one of their post get such a reward.

The lucky post in question is here: https://steemit.com/humor/@htyfn/mental-patient

Now, some may say this is not luck and that could be true as well...