I won't apologize for spending nearly five years, on and off, creating mainly arts and entertainment and presenting that work here. In my early days, on Steemit, I showed up knowing nothing and nobody. But I also had a following of thousands on Stumbleupon, which is now defunct.

So I'd write ridiculous shit, just like I do today. A story about being a nutcase who thinks a washed up drugged out Elmo is his dad, for instance. Or a simple image of my signature that looked like I wrote it in snow with piss, and I called it Piss Art. Made something like eleven cents but I didn't give a shit. We had a view counter and that thing was nearing 1000 views, because I'd always add my links to Stumbleupon, then thousands of consumers would 'stumble' into my work. Each hit was a new reader for me and free marketing for the platform. But Stumbleupon shut down after I spent years building a following.

What point am I trying to make? Something like this:

Would get shared on Facebook, and that kind of stuff combined with having it distributed on social media is what contributed to Youtube's success.

A content platform and social media work together. One is the paper (Hive), the other is the paperboy (Twitter, Facebook). My friends weren't introduced to Youtube because I shared information about Youtube on Facebook. Stumbleupon is how I found out about Youtube, and it was an instance of actual content, not some bright eyed genius talking about how great his platform is.

Link sharing content consumers. In general, this place has been lacking in the consumer department since day one. Everyone is a content creator. The stage is full, jammed, with more on the way. The seats in the stadium are empty.

What's more productive? Me sharing my link on twitter or 100 consumers sharing my link on twitter? What's more appealing to a consumer? An advertisement about Hive with a few people cheering for it in the comment section, or some entertainment?

And those articles about serious stuff that has nothing to do with Hive, provided it's shared by consumers, can also serve the same purpose.

Make it clear to those on the outside consumers can actually be rewarded for their consumption habits here, spread REGULAR content that's actually going to entertain someone out like wild fire and you got a whole new ballgame. Get these people in the door. That's all.