When the community becomes starstruck, it has always been a big mistake. A big name coming here brings no value unless their following buys into the platform as well. I've written about this on many occasions. There's far more money to be made in embracing and rewarding paying consumers of content than there is in depending on a handful of investors watching tokens rise and fall.

As for what you said about content having "no value" outside of this place. For one, in the arts and entertainment industry, the biggest unwritten rule is never sell yourself short. What we do here is quite similar to busking. A busker would never set a limit on how much change people drop in their guitar case as they play for the public. If someone produced their first recording and it went platinum, they probably didn't expect to make millions, and they certainly won't say they earned too much. You're devaluing your product as well as many others here when you say it's worthless. We've created a new economy here and these values are accurate according to us. There's no such thing as getting paid too much in this industry.

Also, when you say it has no value, and I look at my blog. I see hundreds of images, thousands of hours worth of work, all of which can easily be converted into sales. There's creative content that could easily be published onto paper and converted into sales. If I had a large enough market here, a market I've been waiting for for nearly three years, and a means of distribution, it wouldn't be hard for me to accept tokens as payment. So yeah, it's a tough pill to swallow, hearing someone as popular as you are here, a top earner and respected personality downplaying the efforts of the contributors here, like me. My blog is one of the most active here on the platform, consistently, and that means I have the ability to draw in those valuable eyes. And to be honest, if that's where you place the value, I can already tell you I don't earn very much for going the extra mile.

I'm not trying to be confrontational here today. I just like to speak my mind and offer a perspective that's not represented nearly enough. I do agree, shit posts and many of the social media like posts have no outside value. But at the same time, I see you using appics and that is their entire market. I should also remind you that not having a large outside following does not make me an amateur by default. I could show you a somewhat famous personality on facebook right now who has published a few books and shows off his art around the New York art scene, with less followers than I have here using this entity.