Back in the glory days of Steemit (2016) I remember Jeff Berwick getting 15k for a post, (it was later downvoted but he actually deserved it all because he essentially doubled Steemit's membership with one podcast) and I started having dreams of being paid to blog - back then I was doing way better posts than I would ever do now - and my best ever payout was $400.
One thing I've learned over seven years of posting on blockchains is that the payouts have very little to do with the content - you are either part of the cabal or you are not. If you are, you can have $100 for every shitpost, one every day if you like. If you are not, you will earn bugger all, and the catch is, to be part of the cabal you need to be warm and cuddly with the whole satan thing.
True. I remember vividly my beginner days on steemit. I wondered why some of the postings earned so good. One of my early followers was publishing in the STEM group and I thought to myself: "Oh, let me see if I can do it, too."
I strictly followed the rules, made contacts with the peoples in the back channels and stuff. I actually had a lot of fun and found some nice peoples as well. Had some nice payouts for quite a long time.
Though it was clear to me, that I felt like a kind of exotic animal between the academics or wannabe ones, and I also think that my somewhat "in between publishings" were perceived as quite unusual. I don't speak of them as cabal, though. But you meanwhile know my stance. ... I guess :D
I did OK when I was @sift666 (a shoutout to the illuminati cabal) but not so well as @frot - the number 666 was very cool on Steemit! Hive is more subtle but they are still putting in satanic symbolism everywhere.
For my part, I don't need satanic symbolism to realize when a space is compromised by some powers. The evil not necessarrily needs to look evil (devil with horns and fire) - the evil can be as banal as an apple pie and also really really nice. The thoughtless evil, I think, is done by naive people who followed the evil intentions of some few characters without knowing it. They did and do to their best knowledge and good faith. You can't actually beat that if they don't know themselves.
There are some disturbed characters, I agree.
666 - lol
I never did work which ones knew and which ones were clueless. I started out tending to give them the benefit of the doubt, but these days I think anyone earning over $100 for every post they do on Hive knows full well who their masters are, and they endorse what they are told to endorse - the responses to the coronahoax injections were VERY revealing...
That may be so in many but not in all cases.
I would also add that the person who abides by the online rules of the game and can look at handsome payouts from his posts is not necessarily a follower in his other (also offline) sphere of activity. Some seem to howl with the wolves, but if you look or read closely, there is not per se an agreement with the dominant view, though there seems to be none with the minor one either.
It can be strategically wise to act between these poles because, for example, one is not alone in the world but cares for a family or pulls others along who have lost jobs and reputations due to their oppositional nature (or coming out).
All I can say is that not all those who look like they support mainstream opinion actually do in all there spheres of activities. They are pretending (by necessity). Which I consider realistic because people are very different in their choice of life strategies.
I'm with you, though, when I look superficially at all these beautiful payouts, a certain anger comes up. Doesn't help me much -lol.
If you venture into the lion's den and want to criticise, you have to wash yourself with all the waters and sometimes realise that you will not receive approval or will even fall victim to the downvotes. I see it as a very great art to prove myself in a space where everyone is (or seems to be) against me and still come out of it respectable. If I cannot achieve that, I may have mercy with myself. :)
I cant post on Hive anymore, but I'm convinced i stumbled upon a few dark secrets.
AT THE VERY LEAST, ANYONE WHO WANTS THE PAYOUTS HAS TO TURN A BLIND EYE TO ANY OFF NARRATIVE SUBJECTS AND TOW THE PARTY LINE WHEN TOLD TO.
True. You've got to maintain that blind eye.
But do you rule out that there are some smarter folks out there who do not tow the party line, who do not pay into the dominant views, who do not do what they are told and STILL fare very well?
I am inclined to ask "what dark secrets"? and hopefully not regret it :D lol
HIVE - I think there are three big rabbit holes (and same with the original Steemit):
The satanic stuff that @world-travel-pro covered brilliantly here: https://blurt.blog/crypto/@world-travel-pro/red-alert-wealthy-satanic-pedophile-network-in-full-control-of-hive-blockchain-fbi
The cabal control of the reward pool, with certain insider accounts raking in most of the rewards for boring and repetitive posts written by contractors - I'm not going to name any here because I don't want to start another war, but some of the biggest names on Hive are doing that, and have been since Steemit.
The CIA initial set up and continued control - like most social media it's all about data gathering, and experimental mind programming.