> When I compare myself to content creators on Youtube with millions of followers I don't come close.

They all started with one video, and one follower.  You're too hard on yourself.  No need to compare yourself.  If you enjoy doing it, just continue to grow.  As an artist and writer plus being a bit of an entertainer here, I can easily say there's a ton of people out there doing better than me, yet my work is still seen all over the world.  If someone bigger comes along, their fans will see my stuff and maybe I'll become bigger.  It's kind of like how the opening band goes on stage before the main band.  Nobody heard of that opening band, but they like it, and now the opening band has new fans because of the big band.

And I know you weren't targeting anyone specifically with your words.  I just like to stand up for folks.  There's a lot of solid entertainment here, and some has left because for some strange reason, people were supporting junk instead of musical performances, for instance.  That entertainment stuff is **valuable**.  There's nothing wrong with embracing the talent we have here, to help bring eyes and ears to this place.  A big name can bring lots of people, and those people will want to browse around.  All big names started out as little names and it would be huge for this blockchain to turn small names into big names on our own.  Big names are established, making money.  Some make millions and don't need a few bucks worth of crypto.  But like what happened with Youtube, once big names saw virtual nobodies becoming wealthy on Youtube, they flocked to the place for a piece of that pie.  

I do embrace all of these changes happening.  I know what you mean about STEEM basically becoming the gold standard token, and folks will have to settle with earning other tokens.  Now, hopefully those businesses learn to embrace local talent instant of wishing for a star to fall from the sky.  

A big name should be able to attract enough investors in their own content that no existing hodlers would be required to use their stake to support that big name, in a perfect world.  

In many ways, I agree with you and see exactly what you see.  **[I've written about it.](https://steemit.com/newsteem/@nonameslefttouse/think-big-or-don-t-think-at-all-world-domination-stems-from-lessons-in-history)**

I made what sounded like some **bold predictions**, a long time ago.  Wasn't really a prediction though, more like an educated guess.