I am not going to say it isnt without hard work. Sure it beats digging ditches but from what I can see, it takes time to build a following and immerse once enough into the community to put stuff up that gets followed.

It is like trying to break into the popular group in high school. It takes a while to get their trust and move into that circle. One might have to start out on the fringe for a while before moving towards the inner core.