There's Something For Everyone on the Steem Blockchain: Why YOU Should Be on Steemit if You're an Artist, Photographer, Musician, Streamer, YouTuber, etc.

I've been on the Steem blockchain for about 6 months now, and I've come to really love it as my new home for content creation. Over the past decade or so, I've tried several avenues to monetize the content that I create, but I never had much success on any other platform. I've tried YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, a few other social media platforms that have since failed, and I've even attempted a Patreon run in the past.

As a writer, singer, streamer, and casual photography enthusiast, I've made more money on my content in the past 6 months than I ever have in all my previous attempts to gain some value from the stuff I produce. This monetary success was such a boon to my creativity and motivation, as seeing those dollars roll in can really be a great motivating factor to continue exploring my creativity and continue sharing it with the world.

I suppose I'm making this post today in an attempt to really get more of my creative friends to consider checking out the Steem blockchain. In this post, I will cover several platforms that run on the Steem blockchain and serve a similar purpose/function as other more "mainstream" platforms (like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc.).

These platforms are DTube, DLive, DSound, DMania, Steepshot, and Zappl, and they are the Steem quivalent of YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud, 9Gag, Instagram, and Twitter, respectively. SO why should YOU, the reader, check any of these platforms out, especially if you're already somewhat "established" on the more mainstream platforms? It's simple, really.

Those mainstream platforms that you're already on are centralized systems owned, operated, and controlled by groups of people with agendas. They control all of the content that you submit to their servers, and can remove any of your content if they ever decide to do so. They can block your account, as we have seen YouTube/Google do recently to larger accounts that were not in line with the vision of those in charge.

Furthermore, these mainstream platforms usually have very specific criteria that you must meet before your content starts getting monetized and you start getting paid for the things that you post. On the Steem blockchain, none of that applies. The blockchain is decentralized, meaning no one person or group of persons is judge, jury, and executioner for your content. No one can remove your content from the blockchain if they decide that they don't like what you're saying/posting, and if one of the websites that access the blockchain ever goes down, you can still access your content by logging into the blockchain through one of the other websites.

One of the biggest advantages that these platforms on the Steem blockchain have over the "established" platforms like YouTube, is that there are no specific criteria that you must meet before you start seeing money from your content. Every time someone sees your content and likes it (showing their support by upvoting it), your post increases in value, and you have access to that money just 7 days after you create the post.

While it certainly does take a lot of hard work building your audience of true followers on Steemit, this model of rewards system typically frees up content creators to focus more on creating and pushing out awesome content, instead of spending so much time worrying about trying to meet some criteria before they can start getting paid.

The Steem Blockchain truly is a content creator's paradise, and I hope that this post has, at the very least, piqued an interest in some of you. Hopefully you will check it out and give it a shot for yourself! If you found this post helpful, I hope you will consider upvoting and resteeming it so that more people will see it as well. :)

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Check out some of my other posts!

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How to Use Tags to Maximize Visibility for Your Posts and Gain More Upvotes
How The Minnow Support Project Helps You Achieve Your Dreams on Steemit
How I Achieved 200 Followers in My First Month on Steemit
Why I Chose to Invest $100 in Steem
How To Set Up Your Steemit Profile
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The Dawn of Friendship In a New Age
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