I don’t pay too much attention to how many likes my photos get. Sure, it makes all the happy brain chemicals hit, but people are so fickle.
For instance, I shoot a lot of astro. Several months ago, I posted a single shot nightscape that was way over-fried of a local landmark. Got a little over 10k likes. A ton for me as a novice. Well, I just posted a large-format version of that shot with proper post processing, much higher resolution, much clearer…
Barely getting any traction.
The not-level landscape shots people post are definitely my pet peeve.