We still need the Ad revenue 🫠we are not as rich as Elon. Plus he set up other means to generate revenue from the users and advertisment for people who see value in the platform.
So yeah, the userbase can sustain the platfrom. This is what we need to achieve on Hive, hence, the need to get more people here. The more the better.
I totally agree, projects almost always need to use advertising space to obtain other income. Regarding Hive, I would change "people" for real investors, content creators arrive every day and very few investors.