So small but so beautiful
Learning to love flowers, but only in their natural environment
Do you want drama, I'll give you drama
Sometimes we just have to hang above water
I wonder if these are the ones that have flowers, need to go back other time to check.
YES I upload my art for money
This is the quick answer to it. Yes, I do upload and share my art for money.
I don't even have to justify it. But very quickly and so you know it.
I am out here trying to make a living and pay my bills as a photographer and a content creator. We are all in a decentralised social media platform that is supposed to reward the content creators with crypto. We are here to not only have the freedom of being in charge of our own content but also because we want to earn rewards with what we share on the internet.
Since all the centralised social media platforms are always getting data and monetising in all that we do on those.
So I don't know why would anyone would even think that is okay to come to me and accuse me of posting just for me.
WE ALL DO, YOU ARE DOING THE SAME.
I Love my craft
Many some of you do this as a hobby and just for fun. I am trying to make a living out of it. This is what I Love and I want to build a professional career out of it, so why would you think that is weird that I am out here trying to get as much support as I can and try to maximize my earnings.
Honestly if you think and accuse other original content creators of doing that, you should be ashamed.
Indeed there are some people out there trying to play the system and just care about the money.
But I think it is very clear that I work my ass off to keep new and original content coming on a daily basis.
So I don't care with what you say
Resuming, yes, I am uploading my art and my content to get as much rewards as possible.
In the meanwhile I am hoping that with my content I will keep you entertained, I am trying to create something that not only makes me happy but might help and make others happy too.
I will not apologise anymore for it. And in all honesty, if you see me as someone that is in the community to take advantage of others and play the system, you can suck it, because I won't stand for it anymore.
I am a proud content creator, I believe in my content and I work hard.
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To not expect to get paid on a platform that rewards creators is mind boggling.
Believe me! In the many years I have been part of the community I was accused many times that I am here just for the money! And that always bother me because obviously I am here also for the money, but I am not trying to scam or trick anyone to get it. Just doing my best to try and bring content and get rewards for it!
I totally agree with your mindset here!
Creators deserve to be compensated for their rewards, and the more ways to do so, the better. HIVE is one of the better ones as people are able to reward you without actually giving something up of their own. Just by engaging.
Keep it up, you have lots of great photos as far as I’ve seen!
Thank you so much. Many people in the community don't agree. Many of them are the ones with power and they are usually not artists or creative people. They usually are the ones here LITERALLY for the money and then they come for other people that just want to do their thing and show their art.
I am honestly tired of that mindset and I really won't take it no longer as I said. I am here for the money and the rewards. Because I am an artist, I am a photographer and this is how I am paying my bills. So I will not be ashamed or let others try to make me feel bad for it and paint me in a bad light to others.
This is my job.
Well said - you dont have to justify yourself to anyone ! And in particular, Hive is about creating content, and you get rewarded for it - so well done for creating some more content for us ! Great pics by the way !
All the best !
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read and to reply. I am actually surprised so many people are actually frustrated as well and are showing here their love. Thank you for that.
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As long as you don't feel you're entitled to rewards then that's not a problem. As you may be well aware, old timers self entitlement has always been an issue
We have talked about it. You know my thoughts about it. And People have been thinking for years that I come as entitled when I am just speaking my mind as a content creator and an artist on the platform. If "we" really want HIVE to be the social blockchain that everyone talks about, if "we" want to people to create accounts, join, start creating content and stay here, I feel that the mentality of the ones on the top that have invested or earned with the years HP, the mentality of those people have to change. Or otherwise people will just come, stay for a second and stop using it. Because in the end they are getting the same that they do on centralised, not rewarded social media platforms, with the disadvantage that probably none of their friends and family are here for them to share their social stuff. We have seen that happening for many years now. I told you, the majority of content creators that I met on the blockchain have left for lack of support, many good content creators.
If having a different opinion and getting it out there make of me someone entitled, well, that is for the community to decided. And clearly from the results I get with my content, I think it is very clear that the biggest majority of the other old timers have already made that decision about me, even if the majority of them never even had an interaction with me.
I personally don't think I am the issue but that is just my opinion, that since I don't have much HP doesn't count a lot right?
No one has ever mentioned anything about those at the top vs those who don't have much HP, but it seems like you make a big deal out of it. There are many big stakeholders who are dormant investors, and many who actively support a lot of users either through direct curation or delagation to guilds. And for every quality content curator you know that has left due to lack of support, I can guarantee that there are many others who have stayed due to the support they get. I'm not sure how you expect 'those at the top' to change their mentality. And ave you ever asked those who have left to change their mentality? Things works both ways you know?
There's nothing wrong with voicing your opinion, Hive can't silence anyone. If it could, you can be sure you won't be first in line.
You know that is not true. And in the past many were silenced. With the power of the downvote. But that is one of the reasons we are all here, the power of the community. Well I guess I have more of a utopic vision of what HIVE should be and I think not many share that vision. I guess that also I come from a different point of view, where obviously making rewards and getting money with my content is important but I am more into the creation and social side of it. Believe me when I talk about people that left were people that were here in hopes of building a community and find ways to be able to share their craft in the meanwhile. I am not only talking about photographer, I am talking about of people with many different backgrounds. And I have seen them trying many different things to be able to generate a stream of income that would make worth the time and work they were investing in creating for the community and never got the return. I myself have tried it all to "please" the crowds and come up with content in ways that people would enjoy. But many of the times by doing it I then it was when I would lose myself and what I am all about, then was the moments that I would realise that I was becoming someone that was posting "just for money". So yes I think the creators and artists must do some adapting to the platforms and communities they are trying to create and be part of.
But as you said, for the majority of the community in here I will always be an old timer, and that's how will people will always see me. And I won't accept the fact that you say that I am the one wrong, I am the one that should change it all, when I have tried so many different things to adapt and still... that was never enough.
As good and important I think freedom of speech is, and the liberty of talking. Many in here won't ever really talk their mind, specially if they are in a position where they are receiving support, because those ideas might lose them the support they getting it.
We have seen it happen over and over again. That is not something new and that's just how the system works.
People also like to bring back the paid bots, how bad they were, and say that since there is nothing of that no more things now are way different. But from my experience, things are not so much different from those times.
We clearly see it differently. You have your experience and I don't take any value on that. But I have my experience with the community as well and you can't take that from me.
Had this conversation with someone today.
I think of Hive as incentive to get out and take pictures. It gives me an end reason to be taking the pictures. People have been brainwashed into thinking all pictures belong on Facebook and Instagram to show your friends, and to be rewarded for your content? Outrageous.
The truth is I would be taking these pictures anyway. But if I can earn from them why wouldn't I post them here?
That is a great way to think. And you and I are in a different position. And the problem is not the people that don't see the benefits of posting here even if it is just for a "small extra" reward in the end of the month. What I am referring about are people that are big and part of the community for a long time, coming for people that are trying to get this rewards as part of their income because creating content online and photography is their job!
That's a bit like going to a supermarket and belittling the cashier for scanning your shopping just because they're getting paid and not doing it for the fun of it. 😂
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