Well, heck, if that drool-eyed maniac 
Quick note to Dan and the other judges: since literally no one in the world cares what I have to say in 280-character chunks, I don't have a Twitter account. Thus, I am not eligible for upvotes according to the rules. I don't care--I'm doing it anyway and will happily disqualify myself from any sort of prize if it means more people meet and follow these prized blockchain hooligans. :)
1) 
Lots of people use Steemit to post their web comics and artwork, but
Source: @northwestnomad
Just for the record, I'm Dan (the guy serving as Dungeon Master in this particular comic), right down to the glasses and hairdo.
2) 
Monica "Nico" Robinson is one of the very few Steemians I know in real life, and one of the very few people I've managed to on-board who has stuck with the platform longer than a month or so. While she posts infrequently, she's a whirling dervish of creativity who has done more for herself in the world of the written word and art at age 20 than I have at more than double that: she's published a book of poetry, sold her own artwork, and is a voracious consumer and creator of literary criticism, poems, photography, film, and assorted fiction and non-fiction. In fact, her highest-performing blog post thusfar was a spoiler-filled review of the New French Extremity horror film Haute Tension.
Here's an example of her artwork.
And here she is dissecting pre-Internet culture and urban legends as a response to a book I lent her.
In short: she's a hard-working badass who deserves to have the success of the world heaped upon her in large, Steeming (see what I did there?) piles of crypto.
3) 
I'm not sure how or exactly when I started following the Holy Fool, but I'm guessing 
Mr. Yates is exactly the type of person for which the Steemit platform was made: he's a guy with a lot of talent and a ton of hobbies who never feels like he has enough time to accomplish all the goals he's set out for himself. And yet, despite all of that, he still finds the time to post his artwork, review a book or two, blog about his life in general, and just be an awesome human being, father, grandfather, artist, poet, writer, humorist, gamer, Minecrafter, and composer of music.
This badass has more raw talent in one nail clipping than I have in the two hands, one head, and several dozen hearts and brains I keep stored out in my garage. How the hell do I compete with that? Answer: it's the blockchain, so I don't have to, because here, we can all be winners. And the best way to be a winner in this post-HF, New Steem world is to curate other winners like
But also, take his advice and just "Read A Damn Book!".
, daddy to Uno (R.I.P.), reading a damn book.There you go. That's it. That's my entry for "Who Do I Follow On Steem and Why".
If you want to join in the madness yourself, compile a similar posting, use the tag #steemimpact so
Go on. What are you waiting for?
