Hahhaha, This response actually made me legit laugh out loud. The last paragraph was hilarious.
I know what you mean big time. I did see that situation with Louis Thomas. He really had a good thing going for awhile because he was able to chop down videos and was posting pretty frequently. And you are right ...... as soon as he got flagged suddenly he lost faith. @heiditravels got flagged and peaced out. Simps been dumping bags on her for years. I will hand it to her though..... she worked really hard on some of her crypto videos and actually knows what she is talking about. I respect her. Early on she made a lot from just the traveling stuff but she took things to another level with the crypto stuff and it was well received.
I'm with you with the bland personalities / content mills essentially. Considering the place is mainly guys I felt that my dating advice and telling guys not to be simps and teach them how to talk to hot chicks and not be wifeing up single mom land whales would be well received but you can't really make much truthful content around here. It is all PC..... it is like everyone is afraid that others will see they voted for something like that and it will hurt there reputation or something. It is very strange.
Yeah @yallapapi had everyone's attention. It was really what STEEM needed. someone who a great writer but was mixing it up big time and wasn't just a politically correct "safe bet" content mill.
Even @jerrybanfield mixed it up by doing those videos explaining how he scared his back up by folding himself up like a lawnchair and giving himself head. Everyone on the platform was watching and was engaged. The clear and obvious thing is that people here don't really get rewarded for real engagement like you do on YouTube.
I know there can be a happy mix of real engagement and the stake weight model. Unfortunately Steemit Inc doesn't know what to do to create that environment.
You are right. We are legit losers. Most people didn't take the bait. If you think of the content creators who made the most money here. They never bought into the system really. The maybe powered up some money that they earned here but they never brought in money from their bank accounts....etc.
And most of the people who didn't get support just peaced out.
It is strange what you mention about the rap battles community. I have noticed that too where people spend insane amount of time on Reddit doing memes and stuff for free.
That is always what was so strange about STEEM to me. Things were always off so real content creation really never had a place. Because real engagement wasn't something that mattered here for all practical purposes.
But then that also brings up the argument of if the inflation rate and other economic factors amplified the issues and the decline as well. It certainly didn't help considering the inflation over the last year was actually around 17% because of the Steem Dollar situation. I didn't foresee that situation. 8.59% was already bad enough inflation in comparison to sub 4% for Bitcoin and Litecoin at this point. 4.3% for DOGE at this point and 1% for EOS. 0% for Nano.
Did you know I hung out with @yallipapi in Thailand?
Oh yeah..... dude watch from this (6:15) point forward on the Crypto Daily video with that meme of the guy in the prison. That cracked me up.
I "peaced out" because ONE person can effectively censor anyone on this platform for whichever reason he sees fit with no community discussion or recourse.
Why would I want to promote or take part in something as toxic as this?
I've held onto my account here for well over 3 years because I had hope that this platform could actually follow through on its "vision" of being a censorship resistant social media haven.
It's a superb way to acquire cryptos without going through KYC, it's a great implementation of how cryptos can be used in daily life and it's a genious way to get "outsiders" exposed to this crypto space.
Plenty of pros, but at this point there is one glaringly obvious con that outweighs the good, at least for me.
I haven't completely given up hope for Steemit, but I think it's becoming obvious to a great many people on this platform that the witnesses have got some things to figure out.
@heiditravels Yeah I get where you are coming from and agree with a lot of things you are saying. Don't let a basement dweller or two kick you off an entire platform though. Like I said you do a good job and know what you are talking about. You might as well keep posting the content you are making for YouTube and if someone keeps flagging you eventually a white knight with some SP will come to the rescue.
The witness situation here has always been a sham and it is unfortunate to see a similar type thing happen with the EOS BP situation as well. Unfortuantely the best thing for STEEM is for it to go to $0.01 so suddenly a changing of the guard can happen and others can try to take a big position here and make moves. I just think STEEM is always going to be a production level test net and a cautionary tale of what can almost be. It will be a great funding source for about 50 people and a group of overpaid STEEMIT Inc employees. I don't fit into either one of the categories so I will keep taking notes here but won't ever leave even if I'm just getting $0.10 to post a quick picture.
Are you in Indiana at the moment or over in Europe? I'm in Indiana for the time being.
Youre right, something always seemed off about this place. I always felt like good content looked so out of place here; as if it didnt belong. Good content creators come here, feel weirded out by all this nonsense on this blockchain and then leave. Only retards like us stick around.
That meme was actually hilarious. No steemian could think of making a meme that funny.
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I think the feeling people got was that for them to get a big payout they had to make something a home schooled basement dweller would like or they knew the safe route was to make a content mill where they pump cookie cutter content out consistently once or twice a day to be put on upvote bots. Or they realized that one of the only strategies that worked throughout time is just to circle jerk how cool STEEM is. Once most people realize this situation they just peace out.
YouTube isn't perfect either. It is extremely hard to build a channel that people like and that isn't going to get shadow banned or demonetized. There were times when the NELK boys dropped bangers that got like 5 Million views quick and didn't make anything off ad revenue but now their merch is blowing up pretty solid.
I know their is a happy medium between this stake weighted rewards and the ad revenue sharing that we see on YouTube. The issue is video hosting is so expensive and actually storing even this text on the blockchain is in efficient compared to centralized databases.
That is why I thought that the DTube strategy was interesting of allowing people to embed videos from other platforms so they could piggy back off other hosting. But once again when i try to embed videos on my DTube channel it gives me an error and doesn't show up on DTube but generates the STEEM Post so I never get DTube upvotes or upvotes from people over there anymore. It is frustrating and I'm sure getting funding for them is frustrating because they have put so much work in.
Once they were collecting information and things weren't working I didn't invest. Most other people didn't either. That is another reason I"m not on Appics...... it wants a bunch of info.
With the memes, a lot of times even when you think of something funny you know that someone posting cookie cutter BS here will get more money so we don't even bother. I put some solid work into some decent memes previously on here but to modify a video to that level for no payout is pretty insane for who ever did that.
What kind of projects are you going to focus on while you are up in Canada ?
Maybe me, you, and @rulesforrebels could meet up for a meeting of the minds in Michigan or Ontario. I'm in Northern Indiana and he is in Chicago.