I am also new around here. To my understanding, in the begining its not all about the work you do, or how hard you work for your posts. As humans we are social creature and steemit is a big community, of course the quality of the content you are creating important but communicating others and building a loyal followers, network of people who interested in your work is also equally important for reaching success. Dont let this upset you. Try to create more contents that can reach broader audience, and use other tools to promote your posts. Steemit chat and Discord can be good example.