It is my duty today to warn you about this thing called SteemIt. SteemIt ruined my life and I can't let it happen to you.
I first found SteemIt in 2016, it was a new social media site that was anonymous, private, free of advertising and would pay me money to post my content on their site.
At the time I was a beautiful, well-adjusted, middle-class American living the good life. In the early days, I still had a family, nice house, cars, quality clothing, friends and a bank account.
When I landed on SteemIt I didn't understand much of what I read, there were posts about blockchains, Crypto-Currency, other cultures and other seemingly random topics. There was this thing called the trending page where people were making thousands of dollars on their posts!
I knew this would be my future
It all started when I made my first post. Those people wouldn't vote for me. I posted about Steemit, I posted about life, I posted about my first car, some of them got a few votes, which only gave me enough to want more.
I never got enough. I started to explore writing fiction and creating "Quality Art" using MS Paint. I posted hot chick pictures, opinions, snark, deep thoughts, some personal details, and it was never enough. I wanted and needed "All of the votes".
As soon as I posted I wanted to post again.
In my quest to reach the trending page I left my job, neglected my family, soon the financial woes began to start... I was on a relentless hunt for votes.
I woke in the morning with one goal in mind, to get the votes. More and more votes, as soon as I got a vote, I just wanted more. I moved into comments and even tried other platforms like chainbb, zappl and busy - I never cared about those things.. I just wanted votes.
The Bank took my House and the Cars
When the banks started repossessing my belongings, I barely noticed... I was busy posting. My family left, I made a post about it. I didn't talk to real life people anymore, I just couldn't relate to them. I stopped moving and started to gain weight, I rarely got out of the chair. My hair hadn't been brushed in months and there was this strange smell. My health was being compromised as well.
I kept posting... I started a twitter account to promote my SteemIt account
I opened a Bittrex Account, I bought Bitcoin, but failed to pay my other obligations. I now understood what a blockchain was and I could explain several cryptocurrency projects. I listened to "Banking on Bitcoin", while I posted. I needed those votes.
There were never enough votes....
I took a break recently to move to my new place
To be continued.....
LEGAL NOTICE: Nearly none of this happened.
Ohh... I like that home You are living right now (Bottom of the page). That would be my dream home. :) :) In serious, yes, there is something I have already felt, such as I can not doing other thing for my routine life, even I can not think about them because my steemit engagement. Your post is very good warming for people like me who fall into this world recently. I wrote to @poeticsnake few days ago, "Steemit took me from me". Anyway great story you have started here and I will be waiting for next chapter. Loves and Hugs from Spain.
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I agree, this cardboard box is a dream home. Before I earned my first $5 on steemit, I used to live in a hole in the road. Compared to some steemit addicts, I was one of the lucky ones. Some never even had a hole.
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I was sleeping on the bank in the park in a cold September night, a police came to me and asked why I was there... I couldn't say why I was there (because I was jobless with no money) and I showed my journalist card and told him, "I was searching something" ... Even I didn't have that cardboard box. If I had one, it would be great by that time. Hugs and Loves from Spain.
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Looking forward to part 2. I may be in the same pickle, so I want to see how what my future looks like
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Haha! That was pretty funny!
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Your early experience was just like mine. I blogged about it a few weeks ago. My bad luck changed a few months ago when I got hungry one night and blogged how to make a fried egg sandwich. It seems many men were glad to learn how to locate the kitchen. I got my first 3 followers and $5 in upvotes.
Pretty soon I hope to move out of my cardboard box and back into a one bedroom broom cupboard. It’s still not quite the same as my previous life that I enjoyed in Buckingham Palace when I was Queen of England. I wish I never found steemit. Otherwise I would still be wearing my crown today.
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haha lol.. everyone's experience is same on steemit...its like we are travelling on same train...i was also a king of few arab countries but after joining stemit .... left only some steem and sbd. Now i'm not hungry for food anymore ...i 'm hungry for upvotes..
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We were lucky to talk long before that fried egg sandwich made you famous, we nurtured the friendship much earlier, now many people follow you because of your great ascending vote. If you dedicate a lot of time to your new followers you will go crazy, you should take it easy, because now there are many comments to answer, those comments will always be there waiting for an answer, you must take care of your health and attend to your real life. Give a lot of love to the baby bitcoin and do exercises to keep the beautiful woman bought in the store happy.
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Steemit is a vicious downward spiral. People should quit while they still have a chance. Abandon ship!
But first, transfer any SBD’s or liquid Steem to me.
Just selflessly doing my part to save lives.
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lol - I can quit when I want to. (I think)
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"NEARLY none of this happened." ahahahha
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I am so tickled someone caught that! Thank you!
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WOOOOW LOLOL! that was great. Makes me wonder what did happen.
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the learning curve is steep
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That last pic.... When did you swing by my place? Would've invited you in ...
I want the next part...!
Upvoted
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Hahaha you kill me! Can't wait for the next chapter.......
(Here is an upvote to make the box a little happier.
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Steemit is social media but i'm not social anymore. Morning evening and night all i do is steemit. Same things are happening with me now ..lol
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Nice place.
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'nearly none of this'?
ouch.
oh well, at least you never sunk to the lows of learning python just so you could spampost harder and more frequently...
or did you?
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lol.... I thought I had hit a bottom. Maybe there is still room to fall.
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I didn't sign up and the following are reasons my life is so much better.
I prefer a refrigerator box made by Samsung it has sturdy corrugated interior. It beats my 11 bedroom mansion and my 6 car garage with a Lambo for everyday of the week.
I am glad I posted on STEEMit because without votes poverty is the best option for my future. What is wealth if you can truly enjoy going without instead?
The addiction is real and segregation from society is a good thing so I let my lifestyle go.
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sorta, maybe.
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You have Wifi in your new place??this is the most important..
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Hey, i lived through same things, which Wi-Fi spot do you use on streets? And the little box on the right, is it for sale? I have 0.0000000000000000001 BTC.
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Wow, that was odd. Thought someone had copied my entire article, until I saw the legal notice. I would've said "most of these things happened", so I knew it couldn't be my article. ;)
Looking forward to part 2!
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I thought you got lost on the way to the bitcoin store? Your stories aren't adding up, never mind what's up. Just like a true addict, things are starting to collapse.
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The denial causes strange changes to memory.
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So...basically this is the narrative for my life right now...broke, alone, writing, hoping to avoid the homeless bit.
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With a reputation value like you have, the followers and posts, you made it difficult to believe so when I got to the "none of this happened" disclaimer it was not a surprise. Fun to read though. Thank you!!
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Looks like you succeeded on getting those votes! Look at all of them. And the $137.11 that you've made on this post will at least buy you a nice blanket for your cardboard house.
:)
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Very funny.....but which parts really happened?
And if that picture is really you and your wife, where did she go? She is my age/generation and she looks quite nice! Whoops......to be more politically correct maybe thats you and your husband left? :-)
Looking forward to part 2.
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Although the picture isn't real. I do actually have a husband.
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I'm glad you are still together even with Steemit in your life.
Yeah, I knew that was a stock photo and not you. I was just having fun....in the same tone as your blog post. Cheers.
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Pop a quick solar/phone charger on the cardboard house and you're good to go. Who needs outside life, social interaction or belongings when you have Steemit! ;)
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LOL. What a journey. No matter what thou dost really think of me, what I think of you does not matter either. But I do think you are satirist non parallel. As in, 2018, 1918, 1818, you have that gift of wit. Yes, this is far too sincere a comment for a satirist, but never the less, I'm a fan from a afar. My god, I can only hope to live up to your unflinching example, and have a cardboard box in LA again someday.
Dear Wikipedia, Please add WhatsUp to the list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satirists_and_satires
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Thank you @whatsup. Really good prose and the satire in it is very clever and quite entertaining ( at least I hope it is some kind of satire or parody lol)..
Really look forward to part 2. And I'm Following you now . Yes,many fall for this at their own peril i.e. desperately looking for the Upvotes and little else
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@whatsup,
Most of points you shared here actually happening, but for the good side! :D I didn't wash my face yet :D oh shit I forgot it. Now almost 11.00 am here :D This is STEEMIT :D
Cheers~
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The story is really nice, the most important thing is that you make reflect, I would say that something similar happened to all of us at the beginning, we asked ourselves if steemit was too good to be true.
Last month I was able to do many things thanks to Steemit. In this new year I have reflected and I have begun to take things slowly. Currently I only use my blog at night, I am very busy attending personal matters in my real life.
note: steemit can help you be better, as long as you make your priority list.
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Oh, I'm so glad, that nearly none of this happened! :)
Sometimes I can not stop, too, but more often, when I look through interesting blogs and comment.
I want to see ALL interesting blogs and express my thoughts everywhere)
So sometimes I spend too many hours on Steemit)
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Cool sto...sweatervest bro.
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I am new to Streemit and can see myself heading down the same road. Great post.
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@whatsup - Ma'm don't stop this series... Fake news talked about our lives well...
+W+
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oh this..for a moment i thought that it was your story :) i am waiting for the 2nd part of it..you made us so curious and stopped it from there :)
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Hahaha nearly none of this happened!
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It would be hilarious if you really did post hot chick pictures.
Having said that I do spend an absurd amount of time thinking about posting on Steemit and when my posts don't do well....... then it is absolutely frustrating.
Thems are the breaks though.
I think you've got the makings of a really good story here.....I'm looking forward to the next part.
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lol... you are new. I used to be kind of famous for these.
https://steemit.com/photography/@whatsup/hot-chick-pic-of-the-day-teens
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Am I new? I guess I'm not that old....... but I'm definitely not in the early adopters club.
Those chicks actually did look pretty hot. The sun was shining pretty hard after all.
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@whatsup's account creation number is 69,955, your account creation number is 106,111, I'd say you're both early adopters. To your credit I don't remember the hot chick posts either, and my account creation number is 65,086, no big deal hehe ;)
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106,111 huh? That's not a bad number after all. I'm going to check out some of your posts....... I appreciate the interesting comment.
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Yeah you are actually pretty early, you can check all of that stuff on steemd.com and steemdb.com :) I mostly post photos and sometimes meme posts, sadly I'm not as interesting as @whatsup
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It is because of you guys not noticing what I was doing and upvoting those pictures that all my wires got crossed and I have ended up here.
(Interesting thanks for sharing)
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Typical addict, blame it on others. When are you gonna take some responsibility!!??!!?? hahaha
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I have suffered a lot and I still suffer Hatta my eyes started to bleed and hurt me from the heavy use of the computer
I find people who continue and their publication does not exist without meaning and win a lot
This really is not a business
Is there any advice for me, sir? @whatsup
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@whatsup...in my life steemit is a very helped in critical situations.. i never leave steemit platform ..i loved a lot this platform..i did not saw its a social media ..its a golden opertunity to earn money and gain knowledge and share our experiences...thank you for sharing with us ...
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This is just the way to work
I have given up on my studies. I have to steemit and work. But the results are nothing. I do not have enough money. I have a future crash.
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Kinda love this. My standards have been lowered [nothing to do with you at all, just in general and on the internet/steem/steemit/apps/etc], but i enjoyed this and immediately recorded the only video of the day so far, that i think is of any value to anyone except myself. Uploading now. I'd love to talk one on one still. When i speak of SteemX [prizes], and what truly ingenious, focused, and organized "Con Tests" can do for STEEM/STEEMIT/STAKEHOLDERS, i'm not talking out my ass in any way, shape, or form. Steem CAN still make it, even though everyone with an open mind immediately noticed, and always notices, the problems with efforts to create and float whatever is greatest to the top. Alx
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Yes all that cryptocurrency thing is very dangerous... I think the Bitcoin might be even worse than this 4chan person.
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????
It didn't happen to you.My life looks like this :)
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My god, this story intrigues me and I want to read the second part.
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True story guys. Steemit will ruin your life.
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I can't wait for the movie adaptation!
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I'm a caregiver for my wife's elderly parents with plenty of time on my hands, but no place to go. I look forward to getting addicted to steemit. Is there anything I can do to expedite my demise? I had to give up alcohol because I can be needed at any time. Please pass me a glass of steem!
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Omg fake news lol I was like 😦😦😦 at first
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Ha Ha Ha
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This post has received gratitude of 1.86 % from @appreciator thanks to: @whatsup.
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This post has received a 7.81 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @whatsup.
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I'm glad none of this things happened to you. I'm shock while I'm reading your story. Great idea, good lesson for life. Don't do anything obsessively but don't give up your goals easy. Balance is the answer. Resteemed, upvoted by @motherearthist. Waiting for next chapter :)
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Fun piece. So if nearly none of this happened, then some of it did happen. Which parts?
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I knew there would be twist in the story and I'm glad I found it. #disinformation
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LOL This is so turning into the Reality!!!!
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wow! nice write - up @whatsup...you almost convinced me to quit steeming lolz..i enjoyed reading your post... for me you are an effective writer...keep it up and more power (votes)...hahaha
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fantastic post..thanks for sharing your post
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great post funny. All rights reserved.
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You got a 2.01% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @whatsup!
Want to promote your posts too? Check out the Steem Bot Tracker website for more info. If you would like to support the development of @postpromoter and the bot tracker please vote for @yabapmatt for witness!
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Its nice none of this didn't happen you lol. For me, I wasn't as lucky. I have spent so much time on steem, its almost like an addiction. Sadly I have had to limit myself to no more than 2 hours a day. I differently don't come on here for the $1 or $2 I make, that is for sure. Keep on steemnig
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It took me a long time to figure out that this wasn’t a true story. It sounds really similar to mine.
Look, you did alright! 217!
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Steemit could be possessive especially you are hustling for more of that $ sign underneath your post. I guess he find the balance. Part 2....
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Nearly none of it...so you really did get fat, eh?
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Thanks for your warning for us on this platform steemit....
Maybe this is a good meditation for me espesially...
Thank you @whatsup...
Success is always for you @whatsup...
Has been followed and upvoted...
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beautiful place. recycling super😊
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That sure is quite awful but yet somehow true as atleast some part of the post does relate to almost all of us ;)
well to honest will be waiting for the next part !
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XD
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very good post, you have a wide imagination ;)
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Haha so true thought... I keep refreshing my post to see if people up voted them :/
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This story is inspirational and I cannot wait to emulate it!
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Give me your account and i will fix all your problems. I'll leave enough money to buy new cars and houses for just %10 commission.
LEGAL NOTICE : Changed my mind %90 commission and i get the cars.
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Lol post,Steemit is great opportunity for us.
Its really change my life.
Such steemit is a big and great community @whatsup
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hehehe thankyou
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