It really comes down to your connections with the whales. I think the whales upvote posts based on the author of the post and not necessarily the content and quality of the post itself. You can see this for yourself, go ahead and check the trending posts, you'll see that most of the the posts there are done by famous people, either in the world of crypto, or they were part of a startup company now worth millions of dollars...etc, It's more like you need to be an entrepreneur to please the whales, this what I believe at least, I might be wrong.
RE: Who here has a post that they thought for sure would go viral but does nothing?