@em3! How are you, sir? My YT name is Silver Back Stacker. I just started stacking in September of last year but quickly became quite the addict and zealot.
I became disenchanted when I saw how morally deflated many of the smaller YT content producers were with the announcements by google about the impending demonetizations.
I myself was closing in on 10,000 views and anxious to click that button to have my channel reviewed for monetization. I knew it wasn’t a lot of money, but it was an accomplishment.
Unfortunately, like Lucy van Pelt cruelly does to Charlie Brown, my aspirations were dashed along the rocky shoreline of corporate greed.
To answer more of the RULES I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of your channel, but I wasn’t a sub. I am still active on YT. I’ve been on SteemIt for just under 2 weeks. At first I was all kinds of frustrated, I’d spend lots of time writing a post and get only like 2 upvotes if I was lucky. I posted my first DTube video in the last couple of days and a light went off.
First I figured out how to use the wallet and discovered that I had been building value. Then my first video on DTube (a test video actually, my second YT channel trailer) got a pretty nice response. So I decided not only was DTube and SteemIt for me, but I should, like Pit Bullion, try recruiting people away from the dark side.
I’ve got about 320 Subs on YT and a lot of the people I do care about. I try to respond to all the comments and help people where I can. What I did yesterday (as far as I know I’m the only one doing this so far, but I hope other content makers follow suite) was to split my video in half. Get them interested on YT with the FIRST HALF, show them some silver...
...then before the climax end the video and ask them to click the link in the description which will take them to DTube, for PART TWO of the video
People are uncomfortable with change and many stackers are suspicious of all things block-chain and crypto. So it’s going take a lot more coaxing, lol.
My expectations on SteemIt? I’ll call them hopes. I hope all the savers and stackers from our YT, instagram, and Facebook communities make their way to SteemIt and DTube where they can hopefully make some money to add to their stacks, enjoy more autonomy (with regards to censorship), and learn something about cryptocurrencies. Cryptos aren’t to be feared, they’re a tool and well, if you’re careful with your tools you might just build something special.