Mini Pool Meeting | Hanging with some Whales | Why Steemit Needs to Become More Content Focused

Hey guys, I imagine a lot of you guys will pickup on the kind of parody of this. One of my favorite Steemians I follow is @brianphobos and he does pool meetings so as kind of a joke I wanted to do a "mini pool" meeting. I got the whale and everything.

Anyhow, I realize I'm a new guy on here so hopefully it what I have to say will be well received and not like who's this new dude comming over here talking crap.

I don't see this as being a huge problem on Steemit, but something I'm seeing is that a lot of new Steemians are feeling frustrated that their content isn't being seen. Now this isn't unique to Steemit, try going and starting a Youtube channel or an Instagram account and you'll feel the exact same way. It takes a while to make your mark and build a following.

I'm also a huge believer that many people want rewards without putting in the work. Everyone wants their posts to earn $1,000 per post but don't necessarily want to put in the work to get there.

Something I can see which could potentially start happening is that new Steemians give up on comming on here to create quality content and just start to "play the game". By playing the game I mean just running around doing follow for follow, upvote for upvote, voting on content they havn't even consumed, etc.

At the end of the day if we want this site to gain mass adoption and grow it's going to have to be content focused like a Youtube or a Reddit, and not just about playing the Steemit game to get reciprical upvotes and resteems. If that is what things evolve to were going to continue to have people comming and going until there's no longer any people to come here and join.

I recently heard that the average American spends 4 hours per day watching Youtube. That's pretty insane. I realize Steemit is young and still finding itself but one thing that I feel is currently different between the two platforms is that on Youtube while it can be really hard to make your mark, at the end of the day content wins out and if you make good content it at least has a chance, of getting views, getting upvoted, getting shared and rising high in search. This is evident as you can watch a video that has a million views, and then see that the creator only has 11 followers. It goes to show any piece of content has a chance.

On Steemit it seems like a lot of great content just gets lost forever into the new section which can be frustrating to new creators.

I guess my point is this, I think if we want to see Steemit grow were going to need to have more diversity of content. I feel like a lot of Steemit and Crypto posts get the most upvotes and it's understandable as all of us are into those things and this is a blockchain and crypto based site. Again though, to get more mass adoption we're going to have to have other stuff going on like DIY videos, makeup videos, how to videos, daily vlogs, documentaries, etc.

I think we also need to start rewarding alternate types of content as well as if a new creator comes on here and makes a documentary for example and posts it and it gets no love, after so many times they are going to leave. Where as if a new creator comes on here and people interact with and dig their content and they make a little money they will continue making content on here, more people like them will come over making similar content and that will in turn bring more viewers over here as well and viewers are also going to bring more money into the market place.

Anyhow, I'm kind of a rambler, I didn't cover nearly all the stuff I wanted to but this is just some of my opinions. I realize not everyone maybe has the same vision for Steemit as I do. I realize maybe not everyone interacts in Steemit the same way I do, I'm simply sharing my opinion.

What's your guys thoughts? Drop a comment below and let me know.