The kardashian trend...along with other celebrity fascination is meant that way to distract the world from real issues. Everyone can wrap themselves in their "safe zone" and not have to deal with the real issues that plague society and that should be dealt with...like war or wealth inequality because they are happy things are easier to deal with ...like a fake reality. It's the rich conditioning the average to consume into oblivion so they have all the money and all the power, meanwhile everyone is distracted and addicted to it. It has caused the "instant gratificatio or it's not worth it culture" within my generation more than ever. It can be seen everywhere from the way we eat, do our daily task, career, marriages, relationships and other social interactions...just about anything nowa days and now my generation is passing that on to their kids, so it will get way worse. If things aren't fun, we don't have to deal with them.

As far as steemit goes, everybody wants to be on the trending page and will do anything necessary even bad behavior because it' what they learned thru out their lives, if that's how it works in the real world, why would it be any different here? at the end of the day it's the same people therefore the behavior will be applied here as well...And it works, so why change? I have always lived with integrity even if it never gets me anything I want and get nowhere for having morals and that's ok , at least my demons don't come back to haunt me and keep me up at night. I'm a firm believer in you get what you put in, if it was undeserved, the universe will mange to take it away in one form or another. I'm under the impression steemit was started on a different mindset but by keeping it's decentralized nature, cheaters are allowed to cheat and get away with it, and there will always be cheaters. New comers that try to make it legitimately get stomped on by the spammers with the cash so naturally ppl wan to make it therefore adopt the same shady behavior that gets rewarded. I guess it just happens when you involve money, greed takes the fun out of it. People wonder why we need goverment to make rules and police to enforce them, steemit is the first hand example why and that if given the opportunity to conduct one self with integrity in the first place without policing doesn't work. I aprove of community bots or curation projects that works hard at finding good content to promote at the benefit of the platform but I would take away the bid bots because that's what is getting the spam or low quality content by thrive by rewarding such behavior and burying the good content. So really there is no incentive to make an effort. I'm only here as another social media site and don't plan on ever making it big here so I just do my own thing whatever the outcome is and that's how the platform should be treated instead of seen like a cash cow.

I used to leave more comments and interact more on other ppl's blog but for the most part get no response in return or lack of engagement so why bother wasting my time, I have better things to do. I always respond to the lilttle traffic I get on my blogs comments and where I may get interaction but that's about it. Steemit has become just as superficial as the real world.