Content will not be the game of the future. The real value is the humans and connect with them. That will say your goal is that every connection you make will turn into a 100 year long win-win side by side partnership. If you have 1000 people like that by your side your life will be amazing. The future world is going towards more niche based content. People want extremely targeted content towards their own taste and interest.
The early days was the feed that just gave you a bunch of random stuff you clicked follow on, then we got the machine learning crap, now we are getting to the final stage where we are back to Tribes again but instead of it being offline it's now online. Instead of making content for the mainstream we are making targeted content to 1 person. And since 1 person can be sitting on a high reputation and has monetary Token value ready it's worth it to speak to 1 person again. That will say we are back to the good old Tribe days but using it globally in a more effective way.
For a relationship to be formed, then you have to provide a niched based, targeted content (like you said) that someone can relate with.
It is about constantly adding value to someone's live through your content (content again) leading to a kinda connection.
Engagements and human connections are very important, that can be made easy (without necessarily circle jerking or hustling for it) with good contents.
Yes just as you said! But I suppose it's still a very new thing for us humans to do this connection with others online. But we now have an easy way to form connections with high level investors. That is what makes this time truly fascinating to live in.