I have known about @furiouspete123 for about 3 years or so when he did a collab vlog with Roman Atwood. In general I like him and his content centers around eating a ton and lifting weights two things I'm into.
He joined Steemit / DTube a couple of months ago right around the same time the @hodgetwins joined. This was a big deal for sure and there were of course the worries that these type of Internet celebrities would possibly crowd out people who had mainly focused on building up a following here on the STEEM blockchain.
Over time I have observed @furiouspete123 to see if a few things happened.
- If he would cash out his earnings.
- If he would start voting for anyone or engage with the following here.
- If he would tell his YouTube following about DTube
Well he mainly powered up his earnings. He doesn't really vote for anyone else. His voting power is usually close to 100% https://steemd.com/@furiouspete123 and at this time he hasn't told his YouTube following about DTube for the STEEM blockchain that I know of. He did make a video talking about telling his following over on YouTube and what the right time to do that is.
My Ultimate Feelings
A great thing can be said about visibility. At least somehow people are hearing about DTube and the STEEM blockchain. That goes pretty far just knowing that and he has tried to make original content for this platform shows effort. He might not feel like he has the time to really engage with the audience and spend time voting for people but personally as someone who has been here awhile I look at that a decent amount if a person is full engaging with their voting patterns.
Him coming from YouTube he might not be used to really giving back to his audience in that way. As big as he is on YouTube you don't have much time to really comment back and there is no ability to upvote comments or any of that. So in that respect he isn't used to being able to reward his viewers but I would imagine that he would have sort of figured that piece out at this point since he is upvoting his own posts and I'm sure he sees the reward value goes up when he does that. He would have likely tied two and two together at this point.
Also everyone is someone waiting on him to mention DTube to his YouTube audience but in some respects he is probably scared about YouTube demonetizing all his stuff and he is probably also worried with the lower payouts that suddenly people will act like the platform isn't any good or something. All those people have already on-boarded to YouTube but to try to get them to come over here could be challenging. The least he could do is say something about it though in my opinion. He might be worried YouTube will look at it and see how he is venting his anger about YouTube over here and then say "I'll show you." and demonetize a bunch of his stuff.
It could all end up being kind of a wash. If the prices are low and he stops posting and doesn't really want to tell his YouTube following then it will be kind of like seeing a celebrity in an airport. Kind of cool to mention it to a friend or family member but nothing that is going to change your life or necessarily do anything positive for you.
What Would Be The Best Outcome
If @furiouspete123 became so furious at YouTube that he decided he was going to take a $100,000 and power it up and then announce to everyone that he is rolling out his content on here first and rewarding his viewers with upvotes he would really build something here in my mind. Now I don't know if he has that much money to invest in this platform and that might not be in his mind that that would make sense. At this point he probably feels that he has already invested so much time and energy into equipment and building a following that he doesn't need to inject tons of capital into something to be able to get a payout.
Do I think that will happen? No ....... I think he will post and overtime the newness of it will wear off and people on here are mainly wanting something in return. It is like 99% content creators. We don't really have the casual viewers who are super interested in what we have to say which is very strange in a lot of ways when I think about it. Steemit has been best for howto guides for crypto currency related stuff. I honestly think that has been the most impactful thing so far that someone searching for an answer is finding here. It has mainly been to PC here for a lot of entertainment to flourish.
What do you think? Will guys like @furiouspete123 eventually bring tens of thousands more people to this platform?
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It really depends on the developements on the steem platform. If the platform keeps improving and if the prices are profitable, then YES. Eventually celebrities will realize there is a big community here where they can:
Enough reasons for a positive answer on your question, but only time and effort will tell us the truth. I hope they will come, for the sake of the platform.
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My one main thing is he should vote and engage more with the people interacting on his content. I think that would make people feel a lot better and be more willing to keep up on his content.
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or he could at least donate some of his steempower to smartsteem. that is the easiest way to give back to the steemit community. i honestly feel like he and the hodgetwins are greedy since they make a lot on youtube. right now youtube doesnt give them much but it use to back around in 2011-2013 but they also got other social media like facebook/instagram/twitter
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I havn't followed this story super closely but I see a lot of gun channels as well as right wing politics channels are starting to upload to porntube. Kind of odd since were used to seeing porn there but apparently after being censored by Youtube they are moving over there. All we need is everyone who's shunned by Youtube to move over here instead of pornhub or wherever else. It would make sense as well, if a gun channel were to move over to pornhub some people are going to be turned off by the other content on the platform, some people aren't gonna want that in their browser history, its a site you wouldn't visit at work etc where as Steemit and Dtube are safe alternatives.
We slowly need to begin reaching out to everyone being shunned by Youtube and bring them on over here.
In general I think most Youtubers or people with big social followings are going to come over here and take a lot more than they give but hopefully some give back as wel whether it be rewarding their audience or even just spreading awareness of the platform.
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That is crazy about the gun people uploading to porntube. I wouldn't have expected that.
They certainly could find a home here for sure. I know a lot of the homesteaders really found a spot here. I think you are right about big YouTubers taking more than they give on here. I can see how they would feel that they were doing us a favor by coming over in some ways. Not that they would be mean about it but basically they would feel like a really big fish in a small pond type of a thing. A guy like @furiouspete123 is pretty dang big. I mean when he is drinking Steve-O's piss and hanging out with Roman Atwood people probably know about you. LOL
I think he could really gain some respect if he collaborated with some popular Steemians like @papa-pepper Or end up going to Steemfest Next November or whenever.
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Yeah I ain't a gun person but do not understand why they are being banned at YT. Just doesn't make sense.
As far as this @furiouspete123 . I mean if he helps our Platfrom I say great. We need more. But just to be honest he is not anyone that really captivates me. Just do not find him interesting.
But I'm not selfish enough to say he is not welcome here and then try to discount him as a fellow Steemian.
Then again if does not take the time to Upvote his audience ( at least a little bit) then well I probably won't follow him.
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I get what you are saying. Even though he seems like a cool guys and is into lifting and stuff I never got real into following what he was doing or what he was saying on YouTube or anything. Not saying anything bad about him I just wasn't compelled to really keep up on his stuff. probably because if I saw him eating I would try to do the same and end up BLOATED To the Core!!! Hahhaha
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Youtubers who come over here are obviously under no obgliation to endlessly push Steemit on their Youtube audience but I do think if they are going to come over here and make good money and be rewarded by us I do think it would be nice to give something back whether it be upvotes or at the very least promoting the platform.
@furiouspete still seems to be earning pretty well per post. @hodgetwins accounts is kinda wierd, when they upload youtube videos of theirs they'll make $20 $30 $40 per post, however when they post memes or low effort stuff they'll only get like $2 which is fair, Im just surprised they aren't earning more as people will often jump on the upvote train hoping they'll upvote them back.
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In all due respect to those @hodgetwins, I just do not really get it. I do wish them well here ,though. I really do. I just tried watching their stuff and it's kind of all over the place. And not polished or anything. But maybe that is part of the humor and their allure and makes them stand out.
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Yeah I think there audience is kind of late teens and early 20's guys. Kind of a mix of relationship advice with a funny spin on it. I agree not really my cup of tea but they definitely have a pretty good following among their audience.
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Yeah like you said I'm not sure if they don't fully get the platform and realize that interaction and participation is kind of expected on here, or if they know what Steemit is about and this is just kind of second tier dumping ground for them. I know a while back I was giving vidme a try and for a brief amount of time I was trying to be part of the community, I realized the site wans't really going anywhere so from then on out it was just like a content dump for me dumping 10 or 20 youtube vids on the platform at a time. I'm glad I didn't invest too mcuh time as the site is going under and is going to be closing up any day now. That said Steemit is a much better platform, has a better business model and IMHO a better future than vidme.
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vidme-shuts-down-video-app-1202628367/
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It would be so expensive to host video content. A couple of years ago I'm glad I didn't invest more time in Vine as well. There were only a small handful of creators who sort of made it out of that and found success on other platforms.
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It's funny because I was thinking about something similar to this earlier today. I was thinking what if a bunch of big YouTubers come over to Dtube. Whales and everybody else would upvote them so that they can make them happy. They would get spoiled and never engage with their audience because YouTube is still they're bread and butter. And then the troubling thing is the payouts. 95% of his payout is coming from 2 or 3 people. If more YouTubers join they just going to upvote them as well? The more I think about it the more I don't want "stars" coming honestly. I see no way it can benefit Steem UNLESS they give back regularly. All it takes is a simple upvote but people feel so pressed to do it.
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You are right on the 95% of his payouts coming from 2 or 3 people and to be honest with you I'm in a very similar scenario as well. A lot of us honestly are even when we have been around for a long time and have a solid follower count. It really comes down to a few accounts upvoting us with any strength and what I envisioned originally is that overtime the following would grow bigger and bigger and as people accumulated more power even if you were getting 5 or 10% upvotes from people it would ultimately add up across hundreds or thousands of votes. But that hasn't been the case at all
And I'm sure you have seen a lot of the people commenting and not upvoting the post and a lot of times the people doing that don't really have hardly any power anyways. It is like they are hogging their 200 SP. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
I get what you are saying with not really wanting "stars" to come. I also had that feeling last summer. I was thinking that I didn't really care if STEEM was a small ecosystem as long as we were all making money and having a good time. But what I have noticed is that it is getting harder to make much even at higher price levels because more and more people are joining in from around the world and also there are people really draining the reward pool. So before it might have been still somewhat lucrative to push through and be posting at $1 STEEM prices but now even when it was $1.50 it was looking pretty bad. Even with my own vote and a few others it was putting my post around a couple of dollars and if it wasn't for some of the extra help it really wouldn't have made sense.
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@furiouspete123 has some interesting videos where he eats a ton of food everytime which I hope won't hurt him though. He must also give attention to at east his commentators on his blogs, one of the key of success in steemit.
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I agree. If he upvoted and replied to comments I think it would go a long way. Also if he did some collaborations with some more popular Steemians he could integrate into the platform really well. Like Imagine if he collaborated with @papa-pepper
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He is one of the better people on this platform. At the same time, I was never a huge fan of his content so I feel apathetic about him. People like the hodgetwins don't seem to care about this platform and are just trying to get some money from it. You can see that because all they do is repost their videos here, post crappy pictures/memes and they sent out all their SBD (over $1000) instead of powering up.
But who knows? I was similar to the hodgetwins when I first joined. I didn't care much about Steem and was trying to earn some money from my old blog posts. Now, things have changed and I spend a lot of time and effort on here.
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I agree. He has been powering up and making specific content and trying to learn more. He isn't a leach or anything on this platform.
But I would like to see him engage more and upvote others.....etc.
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Of course this isn't the only youtube personality that's come here there was another (and others should say) I don't feel like mentioning names but they almost all do the second think you mentioned..... expect it all and don't bother using their VP at all. Ugh. Such a waste and not helping our ecosystem here
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