Eventually those tips start pouring in

Survivorship bias - There are people with youtube channels of exceptionally composed and produced content, animated, scripted, algorithmically catered to perfection, and they get 300 views tops, half of them probably themselves checking why no views.

We never hear about the failures, only the successes.

You can't guarantee to people to just keep chugging along. Something has to change and adapt to the environment - they have to do something else with substantial business acumen to get it off the ground, rather than just hope for enough luck to go viral.

Even if Hive did go viral somehow and get a sudden influx of a million users, they'd ride the market wave and dump asap, with a user retention rate here of about 1%, I don't see why it would change just cuz more people join. They'll be gone inside of a week with a nice chunk of change for some AI generated contenet that took 30 seconds.

All they've done is shifted money over from their bank account to their Hive wallet

This is a leap of faith based on long term gains 99.9999% + of people will never do, unfortunately.

Due to the fact this is a phenomenal deal, more people are encouraged to provide support naturally.

The opposite is true, people are encouraged to provide support artificially, which is how you get all this culture of circle jerking, auto-voting and other forms of abuse. This isn't unique to here, by any means.

On the contrary, it's natural support when people actively spend their money to support the content they like, such as via patreon or allowing ads.

But more to the point, you've made some leaps back into a totally hypothetical situation with no real practical path to get to that result, short of simply 'Just need a few people to be able to understand what I'm saying and doing it for themselves.' - well, what people? How? Who is going to tell them? How do we know they will stay, or invest? How can we make them? What is so appealing about an insignificant front end that doesn't even make it in the top 50,000 websites in terms of traffic, and is less valuable and popular than the majority of scammy shitcoins?

None of what you've said has happened yet, and there's no reason to think it will.

The missing piece here is the initial investor, the big, wealthy stakeholders that invest specifically so they can have a stake in how things succeed, with the specific goal of growing their own passive wealth. It's this that drives most companies to greater heights in the real world. Your idea might be future friendly, but we're in the present, and future friendly isn't interesting to people living in the present.

There is a barrier, a Great Filter, preventing your ambitious views from happening that you haven't managed to address (and neither has anyone so far in the last 8+ years).

I don't wanna be too doomy. I am still here and I still have faith in this project, and I want to figure a way to make my totally awesome concept come to life here. I just think it's a much steeper uphill battle than you suggest, and I don't think anyone should expect a sudden boom of recognition after a hardfork or something. It's gonna crawl at a linear rate for a long, long time, if not forever - and if there is a way out of that, I haven't seen it - yet!