I saw your Maul post today, but havent finished the show so decided to have a scroll and see what you've been up to and this caught my eye, sorry if I'm late to the party but I wanted to put my two cents in.

I've said this exact thing for years, about paying a semi established content creator to join and bring their audiance along with them.

(That is exactly what Ridge Wallet, G Fuel, and Manscape have done for years. Also the games like Raid Shadow Legends.)

Those are just some from the top of my head. I have never used/ played any of them, but I know them all because nearly every YouTuber I watch has been sponsored by then.)

It's a good idea. There is a big problem though, which most of us in the crypto sphere don't want to admit, or maybe don't realise.

The normies have been burnt by Crypto too many times. Especially in the last couple years. Nobody wants to touch/ by attached to any crypto project. Unless they, and their fan base are already crypto people.

If any semi-big creator gets approached by a crypto project, they will most likely turn it down because they don't want to end up like Hawk Tuah girl. Or countless others.

We all know that Hive is legit, but sadly the average joe's eyes gloss over now at the mear mention of crypto. Been telling everyone I know about Hive for a long time, and have managed to get 3 people to sign up, only 1 posted semi regularly, and then eventually left.

Going the route of attracting content consumers is exactly what we need. As it stands, we are a mass of creators who try to read some posts, but there aren't enough readers for the amount of creators we have.

Also, for semi-successful content creators with influence over an audience. What is their incentive to stick around when the DHF funding runs dry? I assume their earnings on YouTube would be much better than their earnings here, and if it was an-par, YouTube can offer hundreds of millions of eyes, whereas we can offer a couple thousand tops.

The only way it would work is if the YouTuber became a megafan of Hive, and were that passionate that they go out of their way to post here for little added benefit to their career.

So, that's where my idea comes in. Who is passionate about Hive? Us. We are all content creators. So, why don't we all use our posts like scripts, record a voice over, put in some B-roll and stuff and create our own YouTube channels, where we can say, "if you want to read/ watch my content before anyone else see's it. Join 3Speak/ Hive where you can watch or read it 7 days before its published elsewhere."

That's what I'm currently doing with some of my old posts. We can all be advertisers for it, while also boosting our own social media pressence inside and outside of Hive.

Personally, I think it would be the only way to truly advertise Hive in such a way. It wouldn't be fast, but at least it would be something.

We could treat it like a co-ordinated attack. Hive raiders storming the beaches of YouTube dragging people back here kicking and screaming.

Who knows, maybe some funding could be set aside to give people a bit of a boost to get started.