Bitshares – what is happening?

Nothing.
(read the whole thing, it's not just complaining)

Ever wonder how is it that global crypto market cap has regained like 80 billion dollars from July, every other coin is breaking its all time highs and BTS is just sitting there, sad and alone, at 15 cents a piece, going even lower at every opportunity? That's your answer – nothing is happening.
There are a few announcements of various importance here and there, but their implementation is months away if at all. @stan is posting greatly written articles from time to time but most of them are the same hyping of the Fast Bitcoin initiative with no real progress or somewhat misleading information about the Billion Hero Challenge (maybe it's just me, but somehow from this post I got an idea that the challenge will start on 4th of July, two month later we see that it will take a while to prepare and organize it. Another example is saying "it is happening now" in the Fast Bitcoin post and then few weeks later stating that noone even started implementing it due to the lack of a dev). I mean no disrespect to Stan Larimer, I'm sure he is doing what he can (as a fellow aerospace engineer I just believe him somehow :) ), but it's clear to me that although he'll never say it, he needs help – our help as a community.
How is that we have a ready to use product, a platform that is far better than anything on the market right now and the projects with nothing to offer except the whitepaper have ten times our market cap? How is that we have our own exchange but the only thing lacking there are some tumbleweeds rolling around to show how low the volume is? How is it that on the crypto-followers’ most popular website coinmarketcap.com the BTS social feed is so dead even the Night King wouldn't go near it?
We need promotion/advertisement and a lot of it. We need to tell more people about Bitshares and show them our superiority. Billion Hero Challenge aims to do just that and I really hope it succeeds (personally, I think it could backfire spectacularly and hurt not only the platform but Stan’s personal reputation as well, however, it’s a matter for another discussion), but it needs to happen soon. In my opinion we don’t have much time – if we’re going to have to wait for another half a year, we may be unable to catch up anymore. Bitcoin will have lightning networks, Ethereum will have sharding and all the other “popular projects with nothing to show” will finally have something. Their popularity will skyrocket and BTS will fade into obscurity.
So what I’m saying is we as a community need to unite and start working together. We need to promote BTS on youtube (this guy gets it ), twitter, facebook, news outlets, investment publications etc. The HuffPo articles were great but I think we need to focus on something for grownups, like Forbes or Times (I’m not from US so I don’t really know the rankings and the reader base). There are so much popular channels on YT, not related to crypto/trading, that could mention BTS as an investment opportunity/future of money (for a certain payment of course). We need to attract more ICOs and investors. I want to see an interview with Stan Larimer in Forbes, where he’ll tell them that we welcome everyone and could handle all the ICOs that brought Ethereum to a halt simultaneously without breaking a sweat.
Of course, this campaign will cost money. It is also should be closely supervised in order to not turn into a spam attack. So maybe we should make a worker proposal (or is it BSIP? I’m not sure about the nomenclature) to fund it and have a team of 10 (more? Less?) people that will run it and report every week on the progress? I am not talking about myself, I can’t do it. But our community is big enough to find someone who can.
Together we could get Bitshares the attention it deserves.
Tell me what you guys think?