Struggling With Self-Confidence As A Creator | How DTube Upvotes Affect Us | Motivation To Keep Going
The past three days have had me questioning whether or not I was a “good enough” creator. Unfortunately that’s the mind game I play here on the Steem blockchain. What is a blessing is also a curse. So taking some advice from Gary Vee and my good friend Kevin Li, I decided to document the process and the struggle. Here’s a peek into what’s got me thinking.
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Congratulations you were noticed and upvoted by @thejohalfiles, I believe this will be a great encouragement to us, and we don't have to rely on bid upvote bots...
Not sure if I commented on your stuff in December, but I made a video about this back then at the least. (Wanted to finish the video, but it keeps freezing at 2:37).
Anyway, from the comments, I see that there was some question as to whether you should have invested in the equipment, and to that I say it was the best thing you could have done. Invest in your craft, invest in yourself, not any one platform.
As for the upvotes, DTube, DLive, Steemit, it's all a Skinner Box. I don't think it's intentional, but currently the whole system is an oligarchy. One of my earliest videos is about how these accounts having massive SP is a problem. You shouldn't rely on a few people to provide your income. Scale is the best way to secure long-term success as a creator. And DTube doesn't have that yet. The distribution of SP isn't there yet, and likely never will be.
But you've got a lot of talent, passion, and the willingness to put in the work. Diversify your portfolio of income sources, and keep making good work. Maybe that's the conclusion you came to in the video, lol. But those IPFS nodes are keeping me from watching it all the way.
Anyway, maybe we'll cross paths in NYC. hmu if you want to hang with a fellow creator/steemian (I'm in the DLive Discord, responded to one of your questions the other day, same handle.)
@gyrosean! Thanks so much for the detailed comment. I definitely agree that we need more steemians with more steem power. It was designed so that we would earn as we create but unfortunately it just doesn't seem to be working. And thank you for backing up my decision to invest in myself. I do still believe it was the best move.
We should definitely get up in NY! I'll reach out to ya on Discord soon!
All of us facing the same problem. I lost my youtube channel a few days ago without any reason then I think steemit will be a great platform for me. But I did not get any good response from here.
@jzzia keep going at it and don't give up. It takes hard work and patience!
motivating !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we all struggle with the same issues, thanks for being open and letting us relate ❤️
You know it! Thanks for being my biggest supporter of all time! <3
All true points, man. If anything, it might've been your downfall that you used your money too fast on equipment because you believed DTube was going the way YouTube is but they are, as you have realised, very different platforms.
Nice vlog, great to see SpencerSpice back on trending
I could see that. I guess I didn't really give it much thought. Honestly I don't regret moving on all the equipment so fast. Some reinvest their earnings into the platform, I chose at the time to reinvest it into my content creation. They are very very different platforms but ultimately I'm still really grateful to be here doing this. It can be an expensive gig, but it's really fun and it's what I love doing day in and day out.
Thanks for all the continued support homie!
No doubt, catch ya!
Thank you for this, so true and motivating.
Glad I could help @melissacynthia!
Wow, I did not know you bought all this equipment, I thought you got at least some of it sponsored. I work with brands a lot and am always happy to help you get your equipment sponsored, just hit me up discord or twitter :P
Hey @tanbay, thanks for watching! I'll be shooting you a message on Discord shortly!