If you're going down the "what defines an influencer", I think that the amount of comments received with a reply thread greater than 2 should also come in to it as it shows that people value your content and it opens a discussion around it all. Kinda how Asher (@abh12345) does his engagement leagues - I'd say that "influence" in this definition is probably more real than just buying up steem power and having influence in post payouts but it all adds to the definition of it.

I've pretty much carried on how I did when I had 15SP delegated from steemit when I set my account up to where I am now at 25k SP. The EMA community has been really burned by crypto and steem from pre HF21 (particularly the bid bot economy) and it's been tough to even talk about crypto in our Discord with platforms like musicoin, choon, dsound and others making false promises about "real rewards for musicians"...

But it's a tough one to play at the moment as a lot of musicians would say "I'm not getting paid with Spotify or Soundcloud", yet, in the same breath, expect money to fall on their lap without thinking about the actual business/marketing side of things. Having said that, you can't argue with the listener numbers - 350 million+ users on Spotify - compared to that on steem so the tactic from my point of view is to try and build up the following on Twitter from my music and slowly introduce the notion of steem in 2020.

If only Spotify embed players were a thing on Steem, seems it doesn't work on Steempeak or steemit when posting a Spotify embed player (only soundcloud, which is crap for artists, and youtube, which we have seen in recent weeks, is not helping the little guys either).

Anyway, seems I have rambled enough now, hope you had a good Christmas!