The Laughably Optimistic Opinion of a Steemit Newbie

I've been on Steemit for six days. For six days, I've felt some form of pressure to create some kind of content and post it here. Not from any individual or group on here, of course, but from myself.

Steemit is like a dream come true: it's a social media platform that gives me money(provided I'm interesting) and has managed to motivate me to write more.

Prior to discovering Steemit, I had hit a bit of a wall in my productivity. Every new idea I came up with was either boring or hard to follow through; every old idea I needed to work on was boring and could very possibly lead to nowhere.

Now? I feel like I need to make something, anything, anything at all, for the sake of contributing and possibly learning what works and what doesn't. Granted, I haven't had a single post exceed two dollars in worth yet and it's not uncommon for them to be worth exactly nothing, but in a way, this works just as well as, if not more than, a comment telling me what I could do better. This tells me, "Steemit doesn't value this. Stop producing it." And so I stop with that garbage and move on to different, ever-so-slightly more well-received garbage.

It's that slightly-better reception that keeps me going. It tells me I'm getting closer to being valuable. 

It seems like there's no particular topic or genre that's completely adored or hated by the community; instead, everything relies on quality. Even the highly upvoted models people like to complain about are contributing something: their bodies. And since their bodies are high-quality and put in the right categories, they're rightfully rewarded for it.

I feel that what I need to do is learn how to produce high-quality content and put it in the right place.

So thank you, Steemit, for motivating me to be productive through the highly unlikely possibility of Internet fame and fortune. My boundless irrationality mixed with your amazing potential has pushed me to better myself.