I bet if you look at the metrics my casting is WAY up since the $5 USDC cast rewards. It’s not the $5 but honestly I never considered myself a top caster. 

I just straight up had no way to know. I have a lot of followers but many people have twice as many. I post about esoteric sh*t like Public Goods and Grants Programs. Not popular topics at parties. I post to FC because I enjoy it.

The $5 reward was just some validation that the network appreciates my posting and then subconsciously I started posted both more and higher quality casts.

The validation really does help. By the way, is that you in your pfp?

Great pfp. You look really approachable and friendly.