I'm very new to steemit (just joined today), and your thoughts on these "whales" kinda scares me a bit. I've got no influence here, barely know what a whale actually is... but I'm sure I won't be getting noticed by them any time soon.

Thankfully I've got no expectations on the financial side here, so that means that I will stick around for at least a while, if anything to experience this new concept of a content creation platform.

In any case, thanks a lot for sharing your experience so far, it was a very interesting read!