The trite old argument that EVE is full of evil griefers who pushed out all the honest players makes bupkis sense when you take a look at the kill board and see that there are only about 50 active gankers left in the game, and less than 10% of the game’s estimated total population engages in player combat in any form, and not just ganking and piracy.
The game is absolutely full of miners and other PvE farmers like you. Players like you quite literally make up over three quarters of the game’s population. No, you’re not the EVE equivalent of the white girl in the meme porno pic. It’s just that players like you are so numerous, so expendable, and so irrelevant as individuals, that you aren’t even aware of each other’s existence.