What the hell is this!?
That's probably what most of you are thinking right now - why are we watching RuinYourDay on this weird looking site - we like YouTube!?
Well - the fact is, that as content creators - a lot of us like it less and less!
We're the ones spending hours and hours, creating content that they "let us" monetize, only to "steal" 75% of the money we generate from ad-views and so on.
Even for a superchat - which should in theory be a 100% tip to us - YouTube keeps more than you would imagine!
But now, we're starting to find solutions to these problems and you're watching this video on one of them RIGHT now.
Just imagine, watching your favourite battlerappers, and actually get paid for doing it...
Sounds to good to be true right?
Well... it isn't!
Thanks to new platforms like this one, D.tube and D.live to name a few - we no longer need Google, Facebook, Vimeo and whoever else, snatching more than half of the value that WE create for them and they let you consume in exchange for your privacy and throwing an advert in your face.
So how does it work!?
To put it simply - every upvote on SteemIt gives us a small reward in digital currency... and a small reward to you, for curating the content and adding value to the site by using it.
The deeper technical explanation of how it all works, we won't get into right now... partly because it's a bit complicated, and mostly because all we needed to know is - DOES it work!?
And after testing it ourselves - we know the answer is; "YES, it actually does!"
By creating a user on this site, you get access to a rewards-system, that cuts out the middlemen and pay back the money, to those who create the value.
The content creators, the artists, and last but not least - the fans - and yes - that means YOU too!
So how do you get in on this!?
All you need to do, to slowly start getting rewards out of the content we provide, is upvoting our post, or leaving comments in the section below!
That's why we're adding SteeemIt to our platforms, and we hope you'll help us get the most out of it!
And in return, you'll be getting something back as well...
Using platforms like this will hopefully help expand the battlerap scene much more efficiently, while covering the costs associated with events, artist payments, editing time and so on, and not have to dig behind the sofa coushins, to hopefully cover our costs. But we need as many people as we can to help us do it.
So if you want to support the culture as most as you can - then this is the way to do it!
Instead of going to YouTube and letting them keep most of the money for showing you an ad, in front of videos we created - watch it here, and get rewarded for the support you provide us, by upvoting or commenting on our posts.
How and why this works is a discussion for another time, because now we want to watch a battle, and we're sure you do as well.
So here's the deal...
Sign up to this site and start watching us here instead.
And if you upvote the video; leave a comment; or upvote someone elses comment - you'll get a bit of pocket change for doing so down the line... Simple as that!
Don't believe us - then try it and find out for yourself...
There are 2 ways of signing up to the site
One is just signing up for free, which takes a few days to get approved, since they don't want you creating multiple accounts, and start giving away money to yourself. You can, however use the SteemConnect tool, to void the waiting period.
Sign up with SteemConnect here
The other is to pay a small fee of about $2, which will be added to your account, and let you create a user immediately.
And as a thank you for helping us out - we've decided to pay for the first 25 accounts that join the party, and the rest can still join for free, but can take a few days depending on your signup method.
Simply drop us an e-mail at [email protected], and we'll help set it all up for you, so you can start helping us and yourself immediately.
Welcome to Steemit! I love to see people migrating from YouTube!
Thank you - we're very hopeful about what it can do for our community :)
Hi, I'm glad to see RYD here. I signed up to this site a few months ago on the strength that is was blockchain associated and that creators could get money. But I forgot about it until I saw Kyle and Tasha mention this on the news and am somewhat clueless on how it works. So I'm pretty sure RYD is the first account I'm following, and I'm curious to see how it works out. Initially, I thought the video would be directly uploaded here and that youtube would be cut out completely. Anyway, I'm liking the RYN and gonna check out the Illmac podcast soon. Thanks!
Thank you for you for your follow and upvote - we are not cutting out YT completely (yet) since that's where people find us, and d.tube etc also take a cut (but not as bad as YT by far) - but we're testing what's the best for us overall... But we DO prefer anyone who knows to watch it on here, so thank you for switching over :)
nice, upvoted
Welcome to SteemIt - good to see some battlerap innovation. :)
Upvoted for sure!