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Perhaps, yeah. But I'd much more like to rely on my truly original content, of which I have yet to post a thing! And it may still suck, especially if one buids his expectations on some comment. :) I mean content that's not really meta-rambling about steem and crypto's own sauce, but something else.

BTW Adding more to the topic of how to make big youtubers stay, that's like, uhm, another thing that is not good for the Steemit spread is the whole "sub for sub" attitude, and lots of dull regurgitating, without attemps of one's own insight, or at worst of a joke. Steemit needs original content to reach wide groups of people, on this backdrop some gems may then shine (and get obscured, as everywhere, that's reality...) and I hope I shall deliver at least a small amount of such content. It needs to move out from a hermetic state of self-reference to meet outsiders, to try and bring them in. It's like only when the first popular, if really shallow, celebrities, recognizable beyond Steemit, are created solely on basis of their posts on that very platform, that we can say Steemit is a worthy competitor. It should also proceed to be perceived as a legit and popular platform for blogging, better than blogspot, maybe even Twitter. (Adding friends - would it make it better suited against Fb?) And right now it seems - to an outsider - like a portal chiefly for economic speculation, weird white-collar con-men language, and, sadly but unescapably, like it was devised for some attempts of shady profiteering undertaken by the cheeky ones.

Stuff covered in media does not help either. Think Bitconneeeeect. Or, for example, propaganda campaigns against cryptocurrencies by the govts of some countries, like this one shown on Polish TV. The title of that short clip, which was made for the Ministry of Finance means: "And who are you going to be when the bubble pops? A KNF social campaign". It outright suggests that all cryptocurrencies are just pyramids. (Which are all banned in Poland, even if, according to American terms, they are not "Ponzi schemes"... of course, the execution of law which has been stated is a whole different story.)

And here goes a cartoon parody of that campaign

(EN subtitles are here)