Missing The Point...

It’s amazing how much some people can eat. And what’s even more interesting is the fact that we even have eating contests taking place all over the world, especially in America.

I’m following this dude on YouTube, a British guy who goes to all sorts of restaurants around the world and takes on different eating challenges. The guy looks very thin, but his eating capacity is immense. He’s managed to attract over 4 million subscribers to his account in just a few years.

I bet that with such a following and the millions of views he gets with every video, he’s easily a millionaire by now. His videos are nothing outstanding, though. All he does is eat and record himself while eating, using just a phone, a DSLR, and a portable microphone.

Nothing fancy—the overall editing isn’t fancy either—and yet, he still managed to grow his account to a large number of subscribers. How did he do that? Well, I’d clearly say that his passion and the fun he has doing these challenges is the main factor for his success.

There are all sorts of ways to monetize your passion on the internet at the moment, but quite a few people lose themselves in the process. As they start making money, they forget about actually having fun while doing it.

Hive is also a way of monetizing content in the form of crypto token rewards. And despite not being able to compete with YouTube or TikTok, it’s there, and all of us here are earning tokens for the content we put out. Bull and bear markets have a huge influence on our rewards' dollar value, but at the end of the day, it’s something...

However, some forget about the fun factor when it comes to creating content on Hive and focus primarily on collecting the daily rewards that autovotes generate for them. In this regard, I remember quite well some dude back in 2018 asking his followers what they wanted him to post about.

The guy is no longer active, and I found him so lame at the time for doing that. I mean, where’s your character, mate? If you don’t have anything worth reading to post on a daily basis, don’t post anymore. Hive is not a job...

I bet that guy on YouTube I mentioned isn’t asking his followers what challenge he should do next, nor does he enter a restaurant doing such challenges like he would if he were employed somewhere with a shitty job that doesn’t pay him much.

I’ve always told all sorts of people when talking about money that I’d rather do shit I love for half the money than what a shitty job or project would offer. I believe that money isn’t everything, and choosing to do stuff you don’t actually like for years and years just for the sake of money is going to turn out detrimental in so many ways.

I never followed trends on Hive and never will. Whoever decides to monetize content they don’t actually believe in, whether it’s on Hive or any other platform, will not have a long and fulfilling life as a content creator by doing that. Just my two cents...

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian