Sure, a community is a group of consumers that share a common interest. Fans, followers, readers, viewers, supporters, and the rest of this long list; basically anyone not creating but instead enjoying content is a consumer. Universal term. It's an action. Not a label.
The only thing that sets this platform apart from anywhere else is the support system.
When an individual stakes tokens in order to have a vote with value behind it, all they're doing is transferring money from one wallet they own like their bank account, to their wallet here which they also own.
They can then support a content creator forever at no cost with votes.
And I'm sure you know with each vote, half the value generated goes to the content creator while the other half goes to the content consumer. So in essence these communities get paid to support the content creator. Community can also upvote comments from other community members. Every interaction grows the value of the community itself. Content creators can also upvote their community members.
We are on the same wavelength. Attracting the community (consumers in general) grows the ecosystem as a whole. Attracting a single content creator and no community comes at a cost to the ecosystem and does not contribute to growth.
From day one this place has been promoted as a place to post content and get paid. Spinning the tires, digging a hole. No mention of bringing an audience of sorts, ever.
People keep wanting to make that same mistake. The road to growth exists in those communities you speak of or the consumers I speak of, which is the same thing. One is a consumer first before they stumble into the content creator and become part of said community.
Every new content creator showing up today must share existing support with everyone else creating content. With no outside interest and money coming in from people here to support the things they enjoy, this entire system eats itself to death. I've been watching it chew for almost eight years. Been trying to point out what we're both pointing out now for almost as long.
Finding myself in the comment section under a post providing "marketing advice" while these basics are overlooked once again is a nightmare for me. Like I said in another comment here: It feels like I'm living in a simulation where I'm the only one that knows about this stuff. Joking of course but it truly is strange.