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RE: Are You Hustling Enough?......What About Me?
What's really depressing to me and says a lot about Steemit is you are an establsihed user with a following of over 4,000 people, tons of posts under your belt, (68) reputation score and on a good quality post like this you get one spam comment saying please follow me and upvote me, another thumbs up meme and besides me one legitimate comment do date. Says a lot about the stat of Steemit. I do see this post made you $40 so that's the bright side but still kinda sucks to spend time to start a discussion make a thoughtful post and get essentialy one comment and your a bigger user on here, imagine what that means for the smaller guys who have under 1000 subs and a lower reputation score, they are writing to the abyss
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Yeah it can feel like writing into the abyss at time. Oddly enough on my last Livestream I did on DLive and YouTube at the same time on two different phones was actually decent information regarding crypto and I ended up losing subs and it didn't get many views or comments. It is like some people got their ass beat so bad with crypto in this last crash that they were pissed to see some video from me talking about it. Hhahah. I don't know. Other YouTubers who talk about crypto were saying the same thing. That they were losing subscribers.
I still haven't been monetized on that channel so I'm mainly only going to Steam to it at the same time I'm doing streams to DLive. That way I'm not putting a ton of extra effort into creating content for there. Then the screencast videos I do I'm going to mainly dump them on YouTube but more focus on the DLive / STEEM audience. I just really wish YouTube would monetize the channel. I would feel so much better about the time I spent putting stuff up there if that was the case.
Funny you said some Youtubers were losing subs over crypto, I don't know that I would say I lost subs but I got enough comments essentially saying we get it, you like crypto, I sure wish you got back to doing business videos, so I finally decided to get back to my roots.
It's kind of funny, that sort of coincided with crypto taking a dump and just losing most peoples interest. For the past several weeks if not even months I've kind of tuned out to crypto partly out of busyness, partly for my mental health and partly because I know I'm not gonna sell at these prices so why even watch it.
I feel bad for some of these crypto Youtubers, most of them came out of nowhere and had a pretty established following, were I imagine making some good money, especially while things were going mainstream adn prices were skyrocketing. Once the markets took a dump I saw views on crypto videos really tank so its always frustrating when you think you got something going and then it comes to a screetching halt, reminds me of hoverboards back in 2015 or something like that.
I know crypto will come back so they will be okay but definitely felt for them as I imagine some got really excited about their progress and then probably saw 80% plus of their audience just tune out to crypto.
Things seem to be getting a bit more exciting again, markets showing some signs of bullishness, i think the rise and support is too much to be another bull trap.
I'm trying to formulate a plan right about now for what my exit points are to take some profits, I want to have a concrete plan and to actually stick to it. I knew I shoulda taken some money off the table at 18k and when things are so crazy its like were going to 25k, were going to 50k and it gets easy to get greedy and sell. Had I sold at 18k I could have taken some insane profits and then bought back in at 7k or there abouts and taken advantage of the next runup but as it stands now waiting to get back to where we were.
Im gonna gradually sell some stuff at like 12k, 15k, 18k and gonna let the rest ride. I have too high a proportion of my savings in crypto so if I can get some of that money off the table Ill be in a better position to jump in on downturns in the future.
I hear ya on having exit strategies and making sure not to be overly greedy. It can be tough sometimes for sure.
I agree with you on there probably being too much support to be another bull trap. I don't think we will hit a lower low at this point below $5,900. I feel 90% certain of that now.
I don't feel too sorry for some of the crypto YouTubers because I felt like they were just talking out of their ass. In my mind the best crypto YouTuber is actually Box Mining which I'm glad to see he is still making content and was able to continue on.
But if you think about it another reason some of the channels were able to even get as big as they did is because they were giving away money that was all benefits of Bitconnect and other stuff like it. It seems like a long time again but Trevon giving away 0.1 BTC was nuts. Hhahahha.
I am surprised so many people got so hyped and then it was like the excitement was shut off like a light. They will all be back when the prices surge really hard again.
STEEM is actually pumping today. Up to $4 which is nice. It's time to produce a lot of content! I also need my EOS investment to really do good.
You bring up a great point about crypto youtubers. It was a bunch of giveaways to build their audiences. One thing I really like about Crypto and even more specficially Steemit and Steem is accountability. If I say I'm giving away 50 Steem, I can't just talk out of my ass and never give the money away. People can check my wallet and see not only that I gave away 50 Steem, but even who I gave it to so I couldn't do a fake giveaway and just give the money to you everytime and have you give it back.
I noticed Dan Dasilva and Tanner J Fox were doing Bitcoin giveaways for a couple weeks and then quickly cancelled it and went back to Paypal giveaways. While I can't say for sure, knowingthat 90% of Youtube giveaways are complete bullshit I wonder if they got away from crypto because its more easy to track if people are actually following through.
It was funny to see every Youtuber jump on crypto as well. I'm far from the foremost expert on crypto myself but had been in the game for quite a while and was introducing it to my audience long before it got super popular. It was funny to see during the December hype Youtubers who just learned about Bitcoin 2 days ago from a Youtube article fumbling to explain it to their audience in an attempt to collect their $10 Coinbase referral.
I think I made my first Bitcoin video at $487, had been involved at that point for about 2 years and back then I think it was a lot ballsier to make a video about crypto. While we still have skeptics today who call it beanie babies and all that nonsense back when I started crypto was taken even less seriously. It really is amazing to see how much the crypto space has grown on youtube and like you said the vast majority were just kinda talking out of their ass and rereading crypto articles from cointelegraph so I guess hard to feel bad for them
Well the crazy thing is I was going to do a channel for crypto stuff back in 2013 but I looked at the amount of views and all that and it didn't make sense to spend all that time on it because the top YouTubers talking about crypto had about 10,000 subs. Again in 2016 I was seeing guys like Trevon, Craig Grant, and Crypt0 talking about crypto and I looked at their views and sub counts and just figured it was a huge waste of time. Then when everything suddenly went nuts those guys ended up being the main resource in a lot of ways. Me and other people were really blown away by that.
I do feel sorry for some of the YouTubers and content creators who were pushing hard to make videos and not gaining and then at some point they end up having to throw in the towel.
I really need to be making daily videos but a lot of times even with what I know I feel like I don't know enough or that it is too much of a repeat of stuff.