What you seem to neglect is the fact, that in order to upvote, one needs

1. A steemit account
2. Be logged in to the account
   6,833 views, as of writing this, is great! It shows, that content on Steem can reach a bigger audience. Especially when having strong backlinks from a famous twitter account ; ). However, the majority of these readers do not have an account on Steem, therefore can not upvote even if they wanted. And some other who have an account maybe stumbled over this article while browsing on their mobile phone, where they're not logged in to the account. Like myself, for example. So I had to either manually browse to this article in the eSteem app, or on a laptop. The nature of how the passwords look like to access the Steem blockchain does not make it easy to quickly log in anywhere to vote.
   Conclusion: This is not a pathetic community, this is a rather small but growing community. And not every member of this community can vote all the time on every device. Many readers are outside this community and cannot vote at all.
   This noted, less than $1 for such an article that was even featured by the CEO... well that could be considered pathetic indeed. Makes one wonder why people with more Steem Power do not upvote this aritcle. Did they not see it? Is there a political motivation to keep OMG small? Do they all think OMG is just a pump and dump or scam, hence don't support it? Without feeding conspiracy theories, probably the first is true. This is a rather new account, so it will need a bit of time to get noted inside the community. Good luck for the future : )