Nike pays people to wear its brand.  The value the company gets from publicity presumably far outweighs the cost of paying a celebrity. Maybe Hive can look at celebrity the same way. The high-value names may cost in rewards earned, but the publicity, and aura of legitimacy, they bring to Hive will likely outweigh that cost.  

We should do anything we can to onboard the 'influencers'(oh how I hate that word😄),and to keep them. 

I've had some recent issues uploading to 3speak as well thus the reason I often fall to YouTube, but yesterday did have some success.  There have been several influencers from the "Old days" that tried out the chain.  One that comes to mind back then was Kraig Adams.  He came on and tested the waters and walked away.  I even reached out to him to make sure it was legit him via DM on twitter back then and he confirmed it was him.  I just wanted to make sure someone wasn't faking his name and stealing his video content.  At the time, he just didn't feel like it was stable/consistent enough to be worth his time (he's a video creator).  So interesting that today, we still have times when we can't upload :D  Short answer is...no, we aren't ready.

> Can't wait to get the community's take on this.

Well, over [here](https://hive.blog/hive/@por500bolos/the-chicken-and-the-egg-a-hive-s-version-cautionary-tale) maybe there is something worth to «click», read and digest about this conundrum you are talking about my friend. https://steemitimages.com/0x0/https://cdn.disclose.tv/libraries/smiley/images/rtft.gif

I used to follow Atheist Republic. They posted all their videos here, but didn't really engage. Maybe that put people off them, but having their content on Hive was an asset. The fact is that some whales here will use their power to drive people away for whatever reason. You cannot generalise about them though. 

I looked up @cryptofinally and @blocktrades tried [to help](https://peakd.com/hive/@blocktrades/qdc0qh) her deal with a troll. Hive does not have the protections of centralised platforms, but it has some ways to deal with that sort of thing.

I just watched this guy talking about how little he makes from his videos elsewhere even with millions of followers. That is largely down to having to pay to use copyright music, but Hive could pay better if it had those numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R60YFOwYbbg

I've been here almost since the start and seen so many promising people give up on it. I think some just went where the biggest audience was. We have the chicken/egg situation of not having the audience for 'influencers' and not having the content to attract more consumers.

We do have !BEER though!

I today asked Peakd what prevents embedding video from other platforms and in different formats, that other fora have been able to do for decades.  I suspect there is no good reason, but there is a reason.

Hive is kept this size because this is what the oligarchy can keep control of.  Steem reveals what happens to a plutocracy that attracts investor interest.  The sole attraction Hive presents is the ability to simply completely control governance by no more stringent barrier than buying more tokens than anyone else.  Certainly our performance financially isn't attracting investors.

Thanks!