HIVE is a continuous chain, not a new one.
Hive fork happened at #41818723 block. How do You explain the HIVE asset existed in previous blocks? In #41818722 we can see the witness got rewarded in HIVE. This means this asset was created much longer before.
Let's look at Hive very first block #1. It is from 2016!
So HIVE is STEEM.

Witnesses narration is wrong and more and more people realizes it by now. There was no an "airdrop" thing.
HIVE as the longest-blocks chain is the natural Steem inheritor community look at. Many people wallets got zeroed for no reason - they existed in the chain and everyone can verify this at hiveblocks.com