My website is over 10 years old with only 8,500 backlinks, yet a website in the same niche that is only 2 years old has 1 million backlinks and outranks me

I think I'm giving up I went from getting a lot of traffic on google news 7 years ago to getting almost nothing, they say Content is king, they say do not do back link exchange and just let the backlinks come naturally yet these new sites all have more backlinks than me.

I don't know how they do it these brand new websites getting massive traffic and many backlinks and only being a year or 2 old, I try to do things the honest way like Google says do not buy links and let your content speak and people will link to you.

yet Im poor and broke now, because my articles never rank, where these new sites with poor content just basically regurgitating stuff not original not even good opinion content.

Im just unlucky, I guess. The worst part is websites will quote me but NEVER link to me with a backlink

I remember this website that had great authority quoted a part of my article and gave me a mention to my website but didn't link back to my article, instead they linked back to the major or higher authority sites. So a little guy like me stands no freaking chance, back links are king and I have NONE.

Just some stupid spammers backlinking me and a couple authority ones and wiki backlinks :(