As YouTube Content creator with a growing channel, almost 2k subs, who has many friends in the YouTube community, friends like: David Bass of Round Saturn's Eye 100K plus subs, or Gonz of FaceLikeTheSun 100k plus subs, or Michael from What is Real 8k subs, Nicholson 1968 41K subs, Mike from ODD Reality 20k subs, etc. I have had a very difficult time trying to get them to join, in fact they won't because it is too centralized, and unless you are that sensationalist shill TDV pushing nonsense financial advice, then no one on steemit will upvote your videos on here.
In example, my now viral documentary with 185 thousand views on the Hillary Clinton Body Count, got 1 upvote on steemit! 1, and I have 140 followers on here. No value? For a documentary that is going viral on YouTube, and has close to a 3000 like to 96 dislike ratio? Are you excuse my French, but seriously are you steemians fucking kidding me? If I just made a bunch of crap like TDV will that get some upvotes? Test posts that should not get a single up-vote provide "more value" to steemians than my documentary? Really? How many people outside of steemit are going to see that test post and how many are going to see my documentary with links to steemit that will bring possibly lots of views to this platform? Oh well, because I don't have close to 1000 followers on here, I guess I "bring no value". Despite the FACT this video I made a post about helped bring @TyrannyUnmasked to steemit, this post made nothing. So despite the FACT I advertised Steemit to my entire YouTube audience, no one on steemit gave a shit. Then I wrote another one, even spent steemit money to promote it, to bring my facebook friends here. Once again no reward, I actually lost money by promoting it. I guess spreading awareness and trying to recruit new people here brings no "value" to steemians.
People I have brought to this site, who have thousands of subs on YouTube have given up on Steemit, because the "curators" on here ignore basically everything that isn't "trending". Examples:
Games Exposed 8k subs, made one post, no one saw it, even after I "resteemed" it, and gave up on steemit.
Theophilus Most Excellent made four posts after I recruited him here. Due to no one seeing his posts he gave up.
Lastly Steemfest, giving out 1000 SP to people who have done nothing other than go to a party in Amsterdam, in my opinion is total bullshit. I have done a lot of hard work writing blogs, trying to bring people to this platform, and I will end up with less SP than people who merely attend a party. Well too bad I have a life outside of steemit, and I have responsibilities that I can't just blow off to go to some party in Europe. Though despite my hard work, despite bringing people to this platform, a bunch of blowhards who have done nothing but go to a party will have more voting power than me. Sure a lot of people at steemfest have done more than me to build this platform up, but there will be plenty who haven't. That seems totally fair. Way to distribute "value" to those who bring it. Oh wait, unless you bow down before Ned and Dan, and kiss their rings at steemfest, you aren't worth anything I guess.
So in conclusion, I will keep at it here because I don't give up on anything. I guess my posts will just keep getting ignored and not being rewarded. Retention is not the problem, the problem is spreading awareness about steemit, getting more people to join, but this platform only rewards TDV and other already well known people in this community for doing so. People like me, whose word is valuable outside of this platform are ignored. The search engine program on here needs major overhauling, and the distribution of voting power needs major addressing.