RE: Steemit Basics: "Popular" Posts and "Quality" Posts aren't Necessarily the Same Thing
But I also must confess that even though many have told me my content is "good," it has rarely won any "popularity contests," nor is it likely to make it to the trending page.
From @numpypython comment:
As for quality - quality content that doesn't get noticed won't get popular.
From @whatamidoing comment:
Quality posts certainly become popular when people with weight read them.
Definitely, only & exclusively pursuing to be popular, praised and get whatevah it takes for your stuff be showcased on any trending page, billboard, marquee or media outlet at any place, (no matter how stinky your crap could be), it's simply matter of having the right RELATIONSHIPS within the appropriate jerks circle.
Perhaps, maybe, just maybe, if by chance, a little bit of luck also would be required.
Ermm, by the way. ¿How popular Reggaeton Music is in your place? }:)
Sometimes LUCK definitely can become part of the picture... if your two biggest followers are both online at the time you post and they upvote and share (resteem) the result will be quite different that if they were both on holiday... that's the "unknowable variable" in this attention economy we have here.
I have never specifically gone "Whale Hunting" as some people here seem to do... if someone with influence happens to like my stuff I am certainly thrilled and grateful... but I prefer the content to stand on its own merit, and not be part of a circle jerk, as you said.
Don't really know much about Reggaeton music... it's a little outside my usual listening habits.
Exactly @denmarkguy. Keep yourself authentic and true to yourself with genuine principles and convictions is the most rewarding thing there can be.
Oh! And happy to know Reggaeton Music is a thing a little outside your usual listening habits. Because otherwise, you surely would witness with some stupor how quick, ephemeral and void is everything starting to turn out to currently have your 15 minutes of fame creating just crap promoted by the Big Guys just to be massively consumed by the stunned dumb mass.