The issue that messes with people's minds is that for brief moments content creators seemingly could earn full time incomes and that got them sucked into thinking that that would last longer than a week or two. Even when I got on in 2016 I got some pretty decent payouts and it sort of looked like maybe that could be possible and then it was extremely frustrating when it was clear that really wasn't the case.

Then again a year ago there was certainly some stretches where I earned some decent money / day and was pushing pretty hard.

I think what is more realistic to earn money is to play the investor / content creator role but not get too greedy when prices do go up and be able to move some of the funds into a dollar pegged crypto or diversify into a project you feel is up and coming.