Jesus @ that girls payout. Made over $50k and cashed most of it out. Unbelievable.
Thanks @rulesforrebels for the shoutout. Appreciate it man. Things seem to be getting better as I have been testing out bid bots and the highest paid posts of mine were always upvoted by curie's team.
I don't think payouts will ever be "fair" in terms of content. This already is the case on YouTube. There are many videos that deserve more views and money than some shitty videos made by a well known YouTuber. Success on any platform has to take into account many factors like networking, social status, timing, etc. That is the case in business as well.
What Steem has to be careful of is greedy YouTubers that are here just for the money. Some YouTubers have joined that I am a fan of, but I get a strong feeling that they are just trying to get as much money as possible. They even posted their crypto portfolio on one of their posts and it was all pumpcoins like ripple and tron. Just because they are popular YouTubers, it doesn't mean they should get free handouts. Being desperate to attract big YouTubers over here will allow some of them to exploit their platform for nothing but monetary gain and ruin the reputation of Steem again.
Yeah the cashout was pretty insane and there were other examples of that where people for some reason were heavily rewarded but then didn't really stick around. Then some of the people who stuck never really got solid consistent payouts....etc.