Struggles I face As A Small Creator On Hive/Steemit

~image from pixabay

As a small creator, I face so many roadblocks. Of course, we all start somewhere. It feels like these roadblocks are holding me back.

Due to chronic illness and how unpredictable it can be, the only work I can do is content creation/freelance work/gig work.

I started blogging on these sites back in 2017. I was on steemit, and when they had a hard fork and people could post for a few days, I decided to branch out.
starting, my earnings were Ok and they dropped.
being a small creator, when no one tells you if they are not fond of the content, I won't know to change things up and that could have caused my earnings to dip, Your votes also help me know where you are at with a game I am playing and I believe it tells the site you want more. Or maybe people didn't realize I was promoting a YouTube video and thought it was a low-effort gaming review. I started formatting the video like a threespeak video so they know I'm promoting a video from a different channel.

I remember when Steemit was popular, people kept asking me why my post earnings were so low. I started to get annoyed because if I know, I wouldn't have to beg people for votes. if they don't like the content and maybe prefer something different, they don't tell me

Otherwise, I will guess and that's not always accurate.

I am mostly a video creator. I'd add a description so you know what the video is about. Describing the game when I have little to no knowledge of it is difficult.
Being a small creator, when I am having issues with equipment, I can't ask online because no one sees my posts or the people who do see them don't know. I need an idea of the issue to know what to look up online. On Hive, I can use Dbuzz since its like Twitter

Just like when I had issues exporting a video, I posted on the dbuzz, its like a blockchain Twitter hoping someone had an idea. The Hive watchers took it as me exploiting the reward pool. When HW came after me when some fake accounts voted on my post, they didn't bother to tell me anything, just sent Adam to vote my posts to zero and ran. Voting my post to zero and running away just made Adam suspicious.

I can't read minds, you need to communicate.
If someone told me about the fake accounts, I would have made a threespeak video stating I had nothing to do with the accounts.

Maybe that's why my earnings dropped so low ( I used to earn way more)
people thought I was cheating when in reality I did not know the accounts were fake or bots etc.

Ask me instead of assuming my intentions. I feel because I am a small creator, I am an easy target. HW did accuse me with no proof of bot farming
People come to Hive to escape the BS of Twitter or Facebook. People get their accounts banned/restricted for no reason.

if I come off a certain way, ask instead of assuming, I made a post about retiring from making content on Hive ( threespeak videos) and just promoting my gaming content. I was down about my earnings dropping. The post did better than I thought. One guy assumed I knew and was being ungrateful. In reality, the post did better than I thought and missed the alerts when someone voted it.

They just assumed my posts were low-effort when it's a YouTube video and I am promoting it. If you don't tell me what you are seeing, I won't know therefore I won't address it. I can't fix a mistake if I didn't know I cracked the egg. The guy ended up harassing me and i couldn't block them because the platform doesn't have a block button (muting does not work)

They assumed I was this bad person for struggling and crowdfunding on my Kofi to try to make up for what I lost. reality, you're not handing me money. It's like joining Netflix for the content on the platform. Sorta
(I called them out for having smoke for me for being chronically ill trying to kick start social media for work etc)
then they proved my point by harassing me. They think because they're disabled, and they don't have to crowdfund to survive, they think you're a bad person if you have to. They already made up their mind without any idea what you're going through. If you tell them, they will act like they're better than you. This was someone I followed when Steemit was popular.

Just because you climbed out of a hole, doesn't mean the next guy who isn't climbing doesn't want to. Everyone is different. Everyone has different challenges you don't know about. This is a small creator struggle, maybe they purposely misread me so they could label me as the villain in their story.
maybe you had the support you needed while the person you think is a bad person doesn't.

We don't know what struggles people have. They shouldn't be bullied because they don't have the support to help them out of a hole.

Assumptions make an ass out of you.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. What you see on social media is only a reflection.

Again if I misspoke, I'd prefer being asked for clarity instead of assuming my intentions were bad and bullying me.