Interesting. So if I'm understanding your point, it sounds like the addition of financial incentives within comments will breed higher quality discussion. Higher quality discussion means that the main post or video is more of a gathering point around which a community builds.
That could be very cool and is something that has been a struggle for me on YouTube. We have 1.4M+ subscribers on our Charisma on Command channel but virtually no community. I could definitely do more to engage in the comments, but quite frankly, the YouTube platform doesn't seem built for it.
I wonder what happens when these micro-transactions start to enter "offline" interaction? Where you can reward a funny joke or fascinating point in real time. Crazy to think about!
Yes that is true. Surely people want to engage but you need a better system for it. Google is good at search but they are lacking behind in the community aspect. I can relate to what you are saying since I have myself 1.1M subscribers on my YouTube channel. But YouTube control when my videos get released to others which cause such a big problem when you try to connect with your audience. Since it then needs to be formatted in a specific way that YouTube wants it. Which currently is at clickbait standard.
You said a very interesting thing about when these enter offline interaction! Since I many times would love to reward people when they are doing something awesome for me in public. And with a digital fast reward system that can truly change stuff. People will have so much more incentive when we start to get more interesting reward systems be built out. Since people feel the same gratitude when they get €0.01 as with €0.5 that is what I feel is many times the magic.
When you get a good system like this built out that actually works great then I think we can see some very interesting exponential growth when humans that want to do interesting stuff instantly will have the funds to do so. And the best part of all is how people even feel amazing when they are giving out rewards to other people! It's only that it has been a bit complicated up to now. But finally we are starting to see extremely interesting developments in value transfers.
This will start to open up very interesting discussions about what money really is. Surely we already live in huge abundance but many times scared to realize it fully. But now it seems like people are even becoming bored at hoarding money so they try to give it away and they realize in a way how that opens up for even more abundance. Very interesting times we are in I would say!