Forks in and of themselves do not denote anything of value. It depends upon what happens after the fork. We saw bitcoin fork...and fork...and fork...and fork...
With each ensuing fork, the new fork was less valuable. Bitcoin cash isnt a valuable as bitcoin but it is more valuable than bitcoin gold.
Who knows, it is an open blockchain, vice might have decided to fork it themselves although I doubt it since they mentioned the smart media token protocol without mentioning it...and since I am not sure that was released by the steem developers, how would they get it?
We shall see how it turns out but it looks like you will get a vice token for each steem token you have.
I’m thinking they don’t actually need to have the SMT tech yet, they’re just announcing it. The Steem blockchain technology went open source, so as soon as SMTs launch on Steem, they can copy it and launch the protocols on the Vice chain. Vice is giving a good 6 months in their timeline before they need to have SMT tech ready for their partners.
I mentioned in another comment that I don’t think this is classifiable as a fork. It sounds like an entirely new chain, using the open source technology.
If that is the case,a non fork, why pay the steem holders any tokens?