Ayyyy... I appear to have missed a couple posts, but this was an interesting read. I've often felt similarly (artist, outcast, etc.) and like to think I'm able to voice either 'positive' or 'negative' parts about Hive fairly well.
I agree with you completely about the bizarre ratio of consumers-to-creators Hive seems to have accrued. And I agree that Hive is an absolutely fantastic thing to market to most consumers. They won't find a better deal, content-wise, currently, imho. (Though other platforms do win in the 'quality' of content and production values arena, for now.)
It seems so simple, obvious, and self-evident to me that I'm almost shocked when people don't 'get' hive's biggest benefit, and I shared my opinion on 'shhhh, don't tell anyone' in my acclaimed hive-marketing video, interestingly some of the 'official' marketers of hive had nothing to say about it.
As usual, great post, hopefully many people understand it, resonate with it, and apply it somehow.
P.S. Despite being Canadian, Tom Green isn't a name I've heard a long time, congrats on the joke-recognition. :) 🙏
I don't look at the current quality though. Many make that mistake when rejecting this concept. It's the underlying business model that shows promise; how things are setup. Still, I do manage to find enough stuff in a day to keep me entertained. Of course I used the word 'entertainment' so that might throw people off again, thinking I'm only talking about jokes, maybe. Depends on one's tastes though. A science post could be entertainment for someone. People these days even find joy in talking about death, destruction, and the potential for the world to be ending.
Especially for those tokenized layer 2 communities though. There's no point in creating all that product if they never intend to 'sell it'. Expecting your typical 'crypto investor' to swoop in; that's not being realistic. And because they only focus on ways to pay creators and never think about how to 'get paid', they're on shaky ground.
I've been following Tom Green for awhile on Youtube. A lot more relaxed these days it seems.
Oh I know, if I looked at the 'current quality', I likely wouldn't be here, lol, I just meant that although Hive has an incredible value proposition, it is currently lacking in at least one thing other platforms are not. :)
I wrote a giant, two-part 'science post' recently, that while entertaining to some, didn't seem to resonate with most of my current audience, but it was entertaining for me to write, so... I agree with you. :)
And as usual, I agree with you about the lack of thinking about how to 'get paid' being shaky ground indeed. Ah well.
(As for Tom, I believe many extroverted, attention-getting, 'out there' types tend to relax and calm down in later years, see Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, even Eddie Murphy, but I don't have data on this.) 🙏
Dude. I might be experiencing that myself.
lol, I might be too! 🤣