I've been on steemit for 5 months now and I haven't stopped talking about it since. Despite all my ranting and rambling, the number of Irish users on the platform is still really tiny. My own brother brought my whole family including both my parents to steemit. A large number of my friends have created accounts, but as long as they don't see their friends on steemit, they're not motivated to actually make that first daunting post.
Who could bring the Irish to steemit?
Most social media users these days are "lurkers". They read and click and scroll, without creating content and often without even commenting. While these users are important we first need the best content creators to bring them here.
Introducing @clisare
She has almost 70 thousand subscribers on her YouTube channel.
No she hasn't made an account yet ........ sigh......... But I'm hoping that my comment on her video will work as an invite to take a look and maybe bring some followers with her when she catches the steemit bug that I did.
She posts about anything and everything Irish and irrelevant to her irishness. This particular video I thought was very relevant for our community as many of us are revealing a lot of personal things permanently on a blockchain.
I commented on her video which you COULD give a thumbs up if you want to help get her attention.
(You might recognise her from a video I posted before on bad words in Irish)
I'm on a mission to get Irish content creators on steemit! Wish me luck!
I would love to see more Irish here. Good luck with your goal. I myself am part Irish.
Éireannach go brách!
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I don't think it's the Irish , Scottish or any other Ish that are hard to convert. We are the 1% of the 1% The early adopters. The visionaries. What we can plainly see, most others cannot.
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Ps great video.
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I didn't plainly see it. I had to think long and hard to really get how the Steem ecosystem works/can work. It's not easy to see that, and many people have misconceptions as a result, although at least "getting paid for posts" is easy to grok and an easy sell.
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I meant from where we sit now we can see it. I certainly didn't see the big picture when I joined. Almost all the people I have introduced to Steemit and actually signed up. did one post, didn't make a million bucks and didn't post again.
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Good luck with that, it's the same for me with Scottish people!!
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I thinking about ways to reach out to the content creators - not the most popular ones, but the ones that have a large following, yet could be doing much better on steemit than they would on YouTube. Because many YouTube users who make incredible content do not make the money that they deserve from YouTube. Steemit is a great way to monetise YouTube content.
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Good luck! I hope Steem-guild will make it a lot easier to support and guide newcomers from different countries and languages.
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@beanz Great effort and good luck!!
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Love your Irish accents and beautiful language.
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Good luck! A few YouTubers have come and gone here already, but I do think that many will come in the future, when we reach a certain size and stability here.
I think that a good video post here would consist of one or two embedded videos, plus a few paragraphs of written description. I think if they expand a little on what they already write in the YouTube description box, the text can entice people to read the article, watch the video and up vote the article.
I think more people of all kinds are coming here, its just a matter of time!
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@beanz I missed this - @woman-onthe-wing is Irish :)
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NO WAY!! Thank you!!
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@beanz I just found out when she joined the Steemit Culinary Challenge and I had to ask her in the chat - along the conversation - she told me so, she's off till Dec 1 though - says her last post. She won with the Shamrock Salmon salad - very Irish - shamrock :D
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