Content creators follow the money, famous or not. Youtube didn't have celebrities until they saw what they once considered to be 'nobodies' making millions creating videos.
Sometimes I wish I could just project my vision into the minds of those who can't see it. Then they'd go, "Oh! That's how!"
I've failed at explaining this for years. Content generates revenue. The business model has lasted for thousands of years. It works. Marketing to the consumer, rather than the content producer would be a step in the right direction, I think. One song can generate millions of dollars. Content creators already offer their consumers perks. The entire entertainment industry business model exists here, as is.
Do you know why most big names failed on Steem? They didn't produce exclusive content and they didn't encourage their following to purchase tokens so they could tip forever. They didn't teach their consumers they get a return on that investment. Those big names came and got a few big votes, for a little while. In other words, they came to perform in front of a handful of people, and then made sure to keep the rest of the seats in the stadium empty, because those big names had no idea what this platform had to offer. All they saw was the money on the surface and didn't know how to run their account here like a business.
most skilled people will head to other projects.
That's the thing. I don't want to leave to create my vision elsewhere. ;)
We should all work together, combining our visions. Creating options rather than going in one direction only.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
We haven't even remotely come close to trying what I'm talking about. Not once has this concept ever been marketed to consumers and for the most part content creators keep getting handed the crappy end of the deal. I need a place where I can work towards a future and I think most content producers here would agree a future is important. Some of you folks made thousands upon thousands of dollars selling votes and making it nearly impossible for a content producer to grow organically and truly shine. I came out of Steem after working for many years with nearly nothing and it certainly wasn't due to lack of effort. I think content producers should have a voice on Hive now and the days of getting screwed over should be behind us.
Most of them almost were not mentioning steem to people that follow them. and you are right, they did not understand it, and did not try to explain it to their user base.
this also reminded me of the crypto people complaining about censorship of their content on youtube, but non of them are trying to use (and move) their user base to a decentralized crypto sphere (i know there are no a lot of options but if they are in crypto, they are pioneers, so they need to puss it).
Big names with big followings can come here, tell their following to stop donating, spend the money on Hive, power it up. Nobody is going to complain if someone was reaching the trending page daily without the help of current whales and orcas because they encouraged enough followers to come a tip with votes. If a massive following pulled 3 million HP from the market to support one content creator, great! That massive following has NINE MORE VOTES to use in a day. One creator with a business mind posting exclusives here can do a lot. Now scale it up. Purchasing enough HP for a vote worth two cents doesn't rise with the value of the token either. Man I wish I had more time to talk about this right now... I'm just rambling... You get it... And that's cool.
Rather than whales becoming starstruck and voting for big shots, they should teach these big shots about the potential. Otherwise they just take the money and run all while nobody is even leaving comments under their posts here (on Steem when it happened).