Steemit - Quality Content

So how many of you clicked on this because of the photo?

This seems to be the problem with Steemit., and maybe some of you can explain it. This is a platform where "quality content" is supposed to reign supreme, where it is supposed to be valued and paid for. Where is the reward for quality content?

After a few weeks here I have contributed many important, complicated and intelligent articles regarding the economy, investing and Macro-Economic theory, and I routinely see other users who post selfies of old modeling photos get upvoted and therefore compensated much more frequently for nothing short of JR high school style content.

I've delved deeper into this phenomenon and realize that this platform is becoming a standard social media circus full of content that ranges from childish to self involved, and barely anything of quality being upvoted.