Thank you for this great answer. I appreciate your effort but I still think that "tuneing out" means nothing in this environment BECAUSE the money pool is limited and if some channels we don't even see are draining the most money...then what is left for substance and cool?

I don't even thing we need "mainstream" or "to embrace popular culture"...that's all baloney, because we don't know how to manipualte what's gonna be viral [ some can, we, here, can't ]. that's why I think we should focus on quality and nurturing great content.

If a guy from romania can't see the profitability of steemit, then who can? 100$ for the last 2 months of posts is nothing. Sure, it's morethan i'd get on..anything really :) but the idea here is that i see ozcharts making this much on a stupid TA and steemsports and etc etc. This is demotivating to me. Like me, there are others.

Honestly, the only reason i'm here still is for a few people i do like to interact with..and ironically i do it more off-steemit than here. so yeah.