I was talking about chasing what creates views over to other platforms, and now ETH enjoy funds that could have been pumped into HIVE. The inflation or, potential money going out the door, should be countered with money coming in the door. Content is a product and consumers typically purchase or support that product. That consumer money has always been missing on Hive, since day one. Nearly all onboarding has been focused on attracting people with the sales pitch, "Get paid to produce content." Not once has there been a push to attract consumers, who typically outnumber creators by a huge margin. This is why so many publish content to an empty house void of comments.
For a lot of content creators 10000 followers is a small number. Over time, if that creator was focused on creating a business on Hive, it's not impossible to attract 10000 consumers willing to purchase enough stake to equal a vote worth a penny. At today's rates these small numbers pull millions of tokens off the market and lock them away, and the people locking them away are in for the long haul. Many content creators with large outside followings show up and enjoy the luxuries of current stakeholders supporting their work, so that content creator never sees the need to attract their own consumers. Instead they use this platform to collect rewards and ask for donations in other cryptocurrencies, not realizing they could stretch those donations further by encouraging followers to stake Hive instead. Often they have thousands of followers on the outside and no comments under their posts here.
There's far more to this content creation/content consumption world than just advertisements these days.
Who's going to buy Hive when it comes time Hive only supports witnesses, staking rewards, and DAO? That market is already cornered by other crypto projects and Hive seems to be playing catchup, always one step behind, instead of being innovative. Many content creators give several thousand and even millions of people a reason to purchase Hive. Those numbers drop considerably once the content/consumer combination is removed. At that point this turns into just another irrational crypto project waiting to win the whimsical speculator lottery that might or might not ever happen.