>I think a lot of people choose to believe that memes, short-form content and pictures have no value to the Hive ecosystem.

Dinosaurs. 

Back in 2019, I was saying that Hive needs *shitposting* for its mass adoption agenda and I have even created a community called *Hiveonthego* for such type of content. 

Hive is no longer just a blogging platform and that's what some folks here are missing. If we want exposure we need to step the fuck up. 

Instagram, facebook, tiktok and snapchat have grown big due to ease of use and *availability*. 

It's easier to gain exposure as a social media platform by finding 1 million people posting 100 words posts than to gather 100,000 sharing 3-5 500 words articles. 

By no means am I downplaying blogging, but microblogging is vital for Hive. Luckily we have threads and maybe at some point we will have project blank too, or that everything app from Leofinance. 

Anyway, Happy New Year and Hive on!    

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when you first broke the news of something new coming and it evolved into the mysterious project blank, I declared that I would only post pics of Mr Burns and get rich.  That's still my plan. I get value from a laugh so I will curate things that I simply just like.

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Thanks for sticking up for all the clowns on the chain.I here by promote you to Defender of the Meme and Protector of Shitposts. You can add these to your bio :))))

Maybe, but nothing will stop shitlords like me from posting them.

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It truly is all about engagement.  Doesn't matter what form it takes. There are "geniuses" from every medium.  If someone is good at memes and stimulates clicks/thoughts/comments then that work is every bit as valuable as someone writing an interesting article.

As you point out, the amount of "work" put into it is irrelevant.  I guarantee there are people on here who can write good articles in 10 minutes.  Should they be rewarded less than the people who take 2 hours to do the same thing?

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I saw this post after 4 days of it's posting and I still had to drop here to say something about it. 

Aside being hilarious and fun, memes are really underated means of advertisement when used in the right way. They literally sell products to trend in areas of the world the products creator might not have heard or been before. 

If you ask me, I think the answer to the mass adoption of Hive we've always wanted lies partially in meming Hive out. Literally. People will go to great lengths as searching Hive up if they find it a meme that is supposed to be funny that they just don't get.

![photo_20230105_005626.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmSSLSH1GokJA9RVe6okPBESaRU95fo5jwJjfngWjpG4sL/photo_2023-01-05_00-56-26.jpg)

This is one of many Hive advertising memes I made some few months ago and it raised a lot of questions on my WhatsApp on my WhatsApp. Memes add for to the Blockchain even outside the Blockchain. It just depends on the type of meme and what purpose the meme serves. This one for example, is a kind of an ad, but a meme regardless.

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Thanks for these thoughts on the values of memes! 😊

I do agree that the community can determine the value of meme posts. The beauty of Hive is that it permits all types of content, and memes are fantastic for engagement of the general population. I love the quality of long-form posts here, but memes are also great - after all, that's a basic aspect of social media, and cannot be dismissed.

It's great that we'll be able to see both types of posts on Hive. However, a question to ask is: will be willing to allow this type of content to overtake the long-form posts if it ultimately increases engagement? Keep in mind that Threads are only visible if you happen to know about them and go into the Threads app within LeoFinance. Right now, Threads are something you have to dig around Hive to find.

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Agree with input and Output Point of View! 

In my opinion there's a way Memes adds value like the world knows and use memes for marketing products or different stuff and there's always a trend. 

just like that I do use memes to make learning ease by explaining concept through memes or about different hive product and that make sense to say it adds value at some point. 

Engagement does matter and that decides this thing though what way will be better to market #Leothreads outside hive? In your perspective.

If I would be that person than do through memes. Elon musk making memes, meme coins, token or coins and brands etc mostly doing meme contest etc and probably everyone knows why there's always a hype around meme but well quality can be judge through engagement.








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Big facts, Thread whatever the fuck you want. If it gets votes, it gets votes. If it doesn't, it doesn't.

What really matters is the level of engagement, and we get to choose what we engage with just like we get to choose what to vote on.

I'd much rather get 10 comments than a giant upvote with no comments. The engagement is the value. 

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#Threads the new home of shitposts , take that @elonmusk

If we want to rank on search engines then engagement is the key. You summed up what we need to be doing. 

We had some very bad actors on the legacy chain who shitposted 10 times a day every day and robbed the reward pool by self voting with alt accounts. We all know who these people are. Some of them are still here.

I think this may be where the idea of so called low effort content got lumped in with these shit posters.

There is a massive role for memes on every social media platform so why not here?

If you write a 1000 word essay and no one comments on it but it gets huge upvotes.. What signal is that sending? 

Memes generate clicks and these can lead to other content. Memes are a funnel.

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Humor always had value, there is a reason why people pay for Dave Chapelle's shows or that watch so many comedies in tv series. Life would be way sad without it, of course, memes are a short way to make comedy but they've still a lot of impact on social media like Twitter. 

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For a small wrinkle, looking at just the count of the comments also isn't enough, especially when people call all of these ridiculous bot comments. Engagement really requires humans to interact with humans in order to build a community. 

Wow. Your inputs and outputs confused me.  

Can you draw a diagram with the inputs going in so we do not think they are going out, hence outputs.  

And if this is time sensitive, how do we account for the 4th dimension on the [blockchain](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/blockchain) and, more importantly, does it add value

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Labor theory of value is more of a Communist/Marxist concept. The Austrian School that many cryptocurrency advocates insist that value is subjective. If people find a meme valuable, they will upvote it. There is no need to feel salty about it. The person working 80 hours per week can try to do their own E-Commerce business. If the society/community itself value things "wrong", then that society itself will fail. In a free market, things will eventually work out fine.
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I completely agree that engagement should be the primary metric for determining the worth of a piece of content, rather than traditional notions of "effort."

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