That's why I'm talking about serious content creators, not just facebookers - as I agree it's probably not for everyone. But I think it is for anyone who is already actively trying to promote themselves online and/or monetise their content.
For example I know a travel blogger and she was the first person I thought of when I saw steemit. But when I told her about it her response was "I'm skeptical of anything that pays". It's a crazy world we live in when writers are skeptical of being paid to write.
One of the best selling points of Steemit is that is not only a way to monetize your content. It is also meshes extremely well with other platforms. Why? Blog on steemit is a huge SEO thing, without any dirty SEO tricks! So it should be synergistic if you are doing something with Youtube, Instagram, well, whatever.
Besides, as soon as the apps like SteemStagram get released, there is only one reason for the old web 2.0 sites and services... to channel users to us. :-D
Yes! YouTubers would find it especially easy to monetise their content because they can just do what they always did, add the extra link here, and make way more money than they do over there.
Instagram is a tricky one because I think it's harder to view content without the accounts being linked.. It would be great if steem could just link people's instagrams accounts the way facebook does so whenever you post a photo on intagram it just automatically uploads to steemit.
But steemstagram will do that so it will just have to compete!
Wouldnt that diminish the quality of the content? The reward pool is only so big - If I post a "Dan TDM" Minecraft Video - or if he posts it - I think its only of value if he drives his own traffic to it or creates it specifically for Steem. Unique content should be what this site considers valuable if it is to have any evergreen strategy for its content. Dupe content doesnt hurt the site but I would argue that it doesnt help?