I too have had to watch whale circle jerking on Steem for years, because basically us small fry could do nothing about it - not even speak up without fear of being slammed.

Now we have some whales who aren't circle-jerking and are actually trying to mitigate it, the situation on Hive is so much better.

... he would comment but never really vote my stuff. It honestly looked like he was in a whale circle jerk...

You know when you have multiple accounts of your own to feed and need to vote those big players?

Yeah, comments only for you son!