A few of them came over like boxmining, the Hodge twins and a few others came during the high priced days but found it wasn't worth it and left shortly after. They really only stick with YouTube for the revenue and that brands are willing to pay to be part of that reach

Indeed the barrier to steem is crazy high but they're talking about introducing lite wallets to make it easy for people to get in and not have to worry and once they got a taste and like it they can go full steemian like we have now