The Day Steemit Went Full Wingdings

I had a dream one day about Steemit. I dreamt that I woke up, and as is the usual routine, I went straight to my computer and clicked into the browser to Steemit.

Wingdings... Everywhere... All posts and comments.

My jaw dropped. I first suspected something was wrong with my computer. But it was not affecting the Steemit UI or my operating system. Just the posts and content. Steemd also showed wingdings on the blockchain.

It wasn't even about the font. Trying to convert to other fonts showed that wingdings wasn't the problem, the text was all a scramble and whoever was responsible has some fascination with wingdings.

I went in Steemit chat and discord and asked around and people were equally confused as I was. Steemit was under attack by a prankster.

But I had to do my daily routine post, so I spilled out my thoughts about the wingdings woes. I think it was more about a rant about why wingdings exists in the first place. After hitting post, I saw the text scramble before my very eyes. Of course the dreaded fake Transaction Broadcast Error along with it. Which of course meant at the time that the post went ahead to the blockchain anyway.

Then a funny thing happened. I saw upvotes on my post! I saw comments on my post! The number went up a few cents.

That's curious. I wonder what's happening elsewhere else.

In the created page for new activity, Steemit was still buzzing with activity. The usual whales were posting and still getting the usual payout.

The economy was still active. People were still transferring SBD/Steem in exchange for goods and services, even though the social media platform was stuck with a bunch of garbage.

And that's when I realized something. Even if all of Steemit were generating gibberish instead of valuable comment, Steem as a currency would still be alive, well, and functional.

I suddenly felt imbued with a warm light, and sudden flashes of insight. Other answers to questions I had were starting to appear. Like the correct way to fix all of Steemit's value problems. A way to generate the best community. A way for fairer payouts. All the answers were at my fingertips.

And then I woke up. I scrambled for a pencil but by the time I furiously scrawled them down. I looked down at what I wrote.

That's right. Wingdings.

But one thing remained. The following interpretation of Steemit:

Steemit is a cryptocurrency-funded social media platform. Its ingenuity with respect to the goals for adoption of Steem is the use of social media and prospect of earning tokens to attract users.

This observation of course does not justify the lower quality crap that everyone sees and knows is lying around. As a community we control how the reward pool is distributed, and that is a great thing. How we do this determines who will come and play. It is up to us to make an internet nation worth being in.

This is an exploration of the currency aspect of the demand driving steem.

Thanks for exploring with me. What do you think about this interpretation? Obvious? Do you like wingdings? (Have you heard of it before?)