In this video the host discusses the potential migration of YouTube content creators to the Steemit platform, framing it as the "YouTube effect." He argues that growing dissatisfaction with YouTube’s ad‑block policies, content monitoring, and revenue share is pushing creators to look for alternatives. Steemit is presented as a more generous, token‑based reward system that could attract large‑scale creators, but the host notes a significant adoption bottleneck – likening the influx to a city evacuation that cannot happen instantly. He outlines the benefits for existing STEEM investors, who would see increased circulation of the token and higher platform value if millions of YouTube followers and ad revenue entered the ecosystem. At the same time, he acknowledges practical hurdles: creators must learn Steemit’s posting, curation, and payout mechanics, which could delay the transition. The host speculates that a noticeable shift might take three to four years, drawing parallels to the early growth of Facebook. Overall, he is cautiously optimistic that a steady influx of YouTubers will boost Steemit’s user base, economic health, and token price, and encourages both platforms’ audiences to stay engaged.
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Hey you, welcome back to the channel. And today guys, I guess we'll be making a kind of a YouTube/SteamIt video, as I think this information will pertain mostly to both YouTubers and SteamIt users. And so last series of videos been talking about Steemit a lot. I discovered it the other week. I have enjoyed my time on there so far. Still learning, still learning. A lot of, a lot of information to learn about Steemit. But yeah, having a good time over there, just learning the community, posting, trying to share some of the content I've done over here on YouTube over on Steemit. But I want to talk about something I think of as the YouTube effect, and that's the future of Steemit, in particular getting a great deal of YouTube YouTubers or YouTube content creators. And the reason I feel this is inevitable— several reasons why I think it's inevitable— but I think a lot of YouTubers are still coming off the ad block policy, you know, everything going on with that, this type of, you know, monitoring of your information and content, you know, to a degree a lot of YouTubers don't like. And some have, you know, abandoned ship. Some have started to leave, and some of them are big YouTubers or threatened to leave. And when you think of a platform like Steemit, that's going to be a lot, you know, very lenient you know, on some of the content there, probably, or at least at the very least a lot more lenient than YouTube has been. That's gonna, you know, become very appealing to a lot of them as it is, you know. Although Steemit has gotten some YouTubers with good followings, the real large branded YouTubers, I haven't quite seen them as of yet over there. And that's surprising. And I have heard— I'm not going to mention the YouTuber's name, but I have heard, you know, some really big ones, millions, millions of subscribers who have kind of threatened, you know, YouTube that they were going over to sites like Steemit. Thing is, I don't see them yet. I don't see them over at Steemit yet, but they have a large following. And so I'm surprised they're not over there yet, at least posting some content. But I don't know if, you know, somebody talked to them, you know, or things got better and they kind of changed, you know, kind of, uh, you know, didn't make a move yet. Another thing, um, I think is interesting, I kind of liken it to, say, if you're evacuating the city and there are millions upon millions of people trying to exit a city at one time. So, you know, you're not going to be able to do that. It's going to take a certain period of time to get all those people out of the city. You know, there's going to be kind of this bottleneck, you know, as people try to exit out of the city. And I think that's kind of what's going to happen with Steemit, or what's happening with Steemit. I think it's kind of a bottleneck supply of users coming into Steemit. And, you know, that takes time. I think it's gonna take time to kind of have the type of exodus and interest into Steemit. But as far as YouTubers go, I mean, I kind of see Steemit as a good complement to YouTube. You know, YouTube You know, the way it's set up with the ad revenue, YouTube just isn't as generous as, you know, as Steemit with the, you know, what they pay content creators. And it can be very, you know, tempting to, you know, want to go over to Steemit. You know, you can see a great deal more opportunity on Steemit, especially if you got, you know, fairly good content. And you're trying to get it, you know, over on Steemit. Also very interesting, I've heard kind of like some people who use Steemit who aren't so excited about this big, you know, migration of YouTubers to to steam it. And, uh, I, you know, I think maybe some, uh, I think I've heard things like they don't want to be overshadowed, that they kind of like how the system's going as it is and the economic flow how it is. And, uh, uh, you know, the money they're earning, they're just fine how things are. And whether YouTubers come over or the great groups of people come over. It doesn't really matter to them. But I think that, uh, especially if you're an investor in Steemit, you know, let's say you got a lot of skin in the game, you got tens of thousands of dollars of your own money into Steemit, and this, uh, money is helping to create this economy, helping to pay out content creators and curators and the like, that you're going to want a lot more money into the Steemit economy, you know, for your investment dollars and just for the overall health of the system, you know, that people can, you know, you can afford to keep money, enough money can circulate to, you know, keep, you know, paying people and the value of the site increasing, you know, continually continuing to increase. And so that is going to be very important to, you know, have a usership grow, accounts grow, as well as investment dollars grow. So, you know, YouTubers with millions of followers coming in, you know, all that YouTube money coming in, you know, YouTube being the second largest search engine in the world. Over 100 million accounts, over a billion users. That's going to be very important to the economy and the growth of, uh, STEEM, especially, um, you know, if some are projecting growth like, you know, $10, uh, you know, per STEEM dollar. So, uh, you know, overall, one thing I, I think is going to be, uh, is going to happen is I think we are going to see a great boost in the amount of Steemit users. You know, a lot of people coming in, content creators and various things, and more money coming in. And, uh, I think overall it's going to be good for the site. So we, so we want that. But I think the only problem is I'm not sure if it's just that YouTubers don't know about it. I think also, you know, as I found my first, you know, over a week now here and I'm still learning stuff. It's still a lot of things. It's just kind of cloudy where I got handles on things, but you know, I'm usually a quick learner and I would think I have just, you know, everything down pat now. And I kinda see Steemit as just this very, uh, you know, it has a lot of working parts to it, a lot of working parts for social media because it's striving to be so much and striving to do, you know, to do so much. And those, uh, you know, those many working parts, I think for YouTubers coming over and having to learn a lot of information, the time it takes to do that, as well as create their content and various things like that. I think it can create even, even that longer period of that transition from YouTube to Steemit, you know, to where, you know, we got this great buildup of the YouTube community coming over here. Um, and, uh, I think there's over 1,500 YouTube accounts, maybe give or take, uh, with people over 1 million subscribers. So we're talking about potentially a great deal of growth for oversteam it, great deal of money, great deal of money. And I can see that happening quite easily. I can't predict the time it'll happen, could be 3, 4 years from now. You know, we gotta also recall that a lot of these very successful social media sites, you know, before they were even noticed, 3 or 4 years had passed. You know, when Facebook was started, 2004, I believe. I don't think I got on Facebook until about 2008. So Facebook had already been functioning, you know, functioned well for about 4 years before I even, you know, looked over there, you know, really even noticed that it was there. I mean, you know, so, you know, all that has to be— so I think Steam is going to continually grow, you know, great over over the years, and I think they'll probably have these fluctuations in prices. That happens, and, uh, you know, content creators and users of Steemit, uh, you know, take, uh, you know, withdrawals from their money and reinvest their money and various things like that. But overall, I think we'll see a very steady growth in Steemit value. And, uh, so it's looking real good for Steemit, uh And I think we should be welcoming YouTube content creators. I think in the end, especially for, you know, investors, that's gonna be what you want. So anyway, guys, I just want to talk about that a little bit. Guys, keep steaming on if you're on Steam. And if you're on YouTube, as always, take care.
