Perhaps, it is time for Steemers to forget about recent events and take a brief rest...
The recent days and weeks have been a time of turmoil and some bad feelings. I know that I have felt the negativity and bad vibes emanating from Steemit here and there. The continuing fall of the price of Steem, the harsh words and hostilities of the "flag wars", the whale vote experiment and then all this culminating with the resignation of Dan Larimer, Steemit's beloved visionary leader.
Regardless of all these events, in Steemit we have a future-seeing, working platform for content production that departs from, disrupts and is just plain better than the old ways of doing things.
From recent comment exchanges and conversations, I am convinced that the core players in our Steemit community whole-heartedly believe that Steemit will endure and defeat the odds despite all the challenges. It is a noble platform (albeit with some imperfections) and Steemit will endure and overcome in the end.
Moreover, it has been my experience that when things are going badly and the energy is not all straight-ahead gung ho, it can be productive to pause, meditate to detach from the stress, and only then regroup and rejoin the struggle to advance the cause.
I created this music video vignette as a relaxing reverie to help rejuvenate and revitalize our spirits for the great days ahead!
Positiveness is the key! :)
The same can be said for YouTube. Too bad it's users are so addictive on it despite it's draconian censorship policies.
But I hope Steemit soldiers on. We need something like this to voice our opinions and views without the threat of being censored; again, I'm looking at you, YouTube.
Great post, btw.
Thanks for the resteem! As you know, it takes numerous hours to produce a video like that. The vote of confidence from your resteem actually means more to me than the money.
I almost did not post it because I was unsure it would appeal to Steemers. I thoroughly enjoyed the creative exercise, but of course it may not appeal to steemers.
Actually, I think I decided to post it in spite of all the recent negativity. I've been blacklisted, had a comment that I spent some time on pounded to powder within 2 minutes of it's existence and I figured I'd be flagged to death anyway as part of the new whale-vote-negation experiment. When Dan quit it was the final straw. I said to myself: "That's it. What the Hell do I have to lose?"
As for YouTube, they are a business and they will do what they are going to do. I know I have probably been disqualified from financial rewards at YouTube for posting highly controversial political videos in the past. But, it's like you say, we need to be able to voice our opinions without censorship. It's stated in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution and it took humanity 100,000 years to get that far. We need to preserve, fight for and advance our freedoms as our precious rights as humans.
So wholeheartedly agree. Keep up the good work.
re-focus on what you are in Steemit for.