#life

Dear Friends, Fans, and Followers: Where Will You Be?

NoNamesLeftToUse@nonameslefttouse (77)2349d

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Sir, Ma'am, It, These, Those, and Them Over There.

Your host with the most peanut butter toast:

@NoNamesLeftToUse The Writer/Artist Himself,

will now step out of character and get serious for a moment.

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The light at the end of the tunnel.

I realize that's what many of you were looking for.

I'll start out by mentioning how I intend to use my influence responsibly. I'm not writing this to sway any opinions. Your life is yours. You, and you alone, are responsible for your decisions.

I do not represent anyone but myself, and I think that's where my main problem stems from.

These past few weeks have been nothing but chaos yet I consider myself to be incredibly lucky. I showed up on the scene a little over a month ago, after enjoying my yearly vacation from all things the internet.

If I showed up today, I'd be so bloody confused about what's happening here and would've most likely shut this off. You'd never see me again.

As many of you know: I am a writer, an artist, entertainer, humorist, the rest of this long list, all-around cool guy, and maybe even an asshole (depending on who you ask).

I bring a wealth of experience to this world where cryptocurrency joins forces with the entertainment industry.

Potential.

I see potential. Always have, always will.

Let's be honest though. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade. Prepare yourself. I'm about to write down a fact many refuse to acknowledge.

Ready?

For nearly four years, that potential has been squandered by profiteers, opportunists, manipulative bastards, scammers; selfishness, dishonesty, broken promises, broken hearts.

That element, though a minority, has cast a dark and seemingly inescapable shadow of despair upon what could have been.

So now the community wants to move forward. What's in the past is in the past.

But will it stay there!

Sorry for yelling.

You want to dangle another carrot in front of my face and expect me to bite it so I can spend another four years of my life getting fucked up the ass? Losing everything is supposed to be appealing to me?

Calm down no names you're supposed to be kissing everyone's ass and smiling right now.

Some of the same people who contributed to making my experience on Steem a living hell with their goddamn vote selling will now take their profits somewhere else and leave me here with nothing!

Thanks?

Do you even know how much it took for me to be able to forgive some of you people? It's etched in stone on this blockchain. I will not be holding a grudge.

What's in the past stays in the past but that does not mean I can't go there to look for clues that point to my future.

I learned a lot. Did you?

I spent the last few weeks watching everything, closely.

I watched people sell their souls for a teensy tiny little taste of power. Weak-minded sycophants — who will place their potential profits (living in dreamland) before their integrity — literally painted their true colors all over a goddamn blockchain with permanent marker, and for all to see.

You were being tested and you failed!

Next time simply piss on an electric fence if you crave a shock and want to look like an asshole.

Unfortunately, I didn't expect to see any less out of people in this crypto meets entertainment world.

And I'll tell you right now it wasn't the REAL entertainers/content creators here causing or contributing to any of this madness.

Hive

Do you like me or do you just want to fuck me?

Let me guess.

A steady stream of trending posts talking about how great Hive is.
A steady stream of trending posts talking about platform politics.
A steady stream of trending posts published by witnesses making top dollar to tell everyone what they want to hear.
A steady stream of trending posts published by "investors" making top dollar so they can pretend to be popular for a day with a massive self vote and a trail of mini self votes.
Some weird shit post that doesn't make any sense at all but it's trending because some shady profiteer felt like taking advantage of someone because it pays fifty bucks.

Or have you learned your lesson?

Where I stand right now, I've come to terms with the fact Steem will never be the same.

I have a strong feeling if I stayed here, I'd lose half or more of my viewership. The support I worked so hard to earn, will be gone.

I already see people talking about how they're going to burn the house down. Insult to injury. Piss on going on four years of my life. Make those wounds sting, thank you very much.

I didn't ask for this fucking disaster. I didn't create this fucking disaster. I didn't support the fucking disaster. As a matter of fact, nearly four years of earned SP went into attempting to protect what we all worked so hard to achieve. 99% of what I earned here, stayed here!

You're welcome!

I'm faced with a massive decision right now.

So far, I'm leaning towards taking a bit of a break. As you can clearly see, I am in no mood for more shenanigans.

Hype doesn't work on me. Results. I need to see results. I'm convinced promises will only be broken.

My work is nothing without eyes. I don't want to be writing about my frustrations every single day. I don't even want to be frustrated. I do a better job of entertaining people when I have my game face on and I know damn well some people enjoy what I do, when I do it. I don't want to be wasting my time talking to myself just so some mystical crypto fairy can come sprinkle me with tokens like I'm some kinda loony in the park begging for change.

I won't be double dipping. Exclusives are incredibly valuable to both myself and the platform I post on.

I don't have the time to be in two places at once. Even my shit posts can take an entire workday to produce.

I'm not interested in a platform where the content is just filler and only a few at the top or a few behind the scenes are the ones making real money. I'm not interested in a platform where exploits earn more than hard work. I don't need a knight in shining armor and I'm not going to be kissing anyone's ass any time in the near or distant future.

The only thing I need in order to be successful is an audience and a platform that allows me to focus on my craft.

Where your eyes are is where I'll be.

I needed to get this off my chest.

I see potential in a fresh start; but I also have a broken heart.

Show me the way.

Credits:

All art and images seen here were produced digitally, by me.

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Comments · 20

@meesterboom(81)· 2348d
Aye, I could have written this myself.

Where will the eyes be? On Hive by the looks of it. But will anyone else's eyes in the outside world be there? I dunno.

I will take a chance. I will post something there, might just curate. Still not sure. I still don't feel ready to give up on steem. Things arent that different on Hive. Not yet. In fact. I see a lot of the shouty trouble causers from here being now the heros of Hive.

Hmm. Still dunno
@arcange(79)· 2348d
Congratulations @nonameslefttouse! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
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@fotostef(77)· 2349d
Hive is a revolution! The steem proletariat overturns the dictatorial status quo and marches to a brave new world, singing songs of victory :) You sound like a guy that you have read a lot, probably that's why you are a bit depressed. Even if history is not your strong suit I am sure that you know what has happened to every single revolution throughout the centuries. But it doesn't really matter because every revolutionary act leaves behind a small legacy and that's how we evolve. There are many hints that hive will not be the decentralized heaven that many of us are expecting. But it can and probably will, be better than what we have today and I intend to be there and support it as far as I can. And I really hope I'll have the pleasure of seeing you there too!
@ange.nkuru(66)· 2349d
I'll be double dipping either way so I guess I'll be seeing you around.

No hype train for me too though, all the hype I was meant to muster in my lifetime was exhausted during my 2 years on steem.

Yup, hype train out of steam.
@ryivhnn(73)· 2349d
You gotta do whatever you want/feels right in the end right?

At this stage I'm going to be posting on hive but will continue commenting on steem if anyone is left to comment on (some people might just not want to move for whatever reason), and also I want to see if steem is salvagable (in which case I may consider cross-posting) or just to stay til the bitter end if it ends up completely going up in flames because I do weird stupid things like that.

So um tldr whatever you decide you'll still have to put up with me.

The character looks like they might be in my part of the world :)
@por500bolos(68)· 2349d

I don't want to be wasting my time talking to myself just so some mystical crypto fairy can come sprinkle me with tokens like I'm some kinda loony in the park begging for change.

¿What?

C'mon @nonameslefttouse!! Are you telling me that in four years you didn't learn to enjoy the soliloquies yet? Pft, then I can see you didn't READ much of my content so far either. LoL
@galenkp(84)· 2349d
I reckon it's worth a go, HIVE I mean. You've put so much effort here on steem and with (seemingly) most of the cool kids moving over to HIVE...Well, move over and see what's up I guess. I will be. I'll drop past steem from time to time and who knows, maybe there's something to be said for posting/engaging on both? HIVE needs ya mate, the community needs ya.
@dramatoken(62)· 2349d

Here's your DRAMA. Don't spend it all in one place!

^{To view or trade DRAMA go to steem-engine.com.}
@freebornangel(72)· 2349d
!dramatoken

Relax, hive will mirror steem, no content will be lost in the shuffle(they tell me).

How the crowd shakes out remains to be seen, but what do you do? Be happy with the new/old viewers you have in the place/s you decide to be? Sounds win/win, to me.

Unless one or the other tanks, then all bets are off.
@worldcapture(72)· 2349d
It's a fucked up situation, I know. I also have to make a big decision if/when I move my Photofeed curation project. It's pretty scary seeing something well running suddenly on a bumpy unknown road..

Anyway, I know you will always have a big audience, no matter on what platform.
@pwny(58)· 2349d
Steem has been about kissing the right ass and rigging the game in your favor. If that doesn't change then neither will the trending. Maybe i'm wrong though.
@nuthman(74)· 2349d
I look forward to the day when the vast majority of high earning posts aren't about the platform itself or the politics of the platform. Then it will be a much different (more mainstream) place.

Imagine going to Facebook, and the posts with the most likes have nothing to do with cats, but instead are all about Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook policies.
@dalz(81)· 2349d
Oh man!

Enjoying your posts.
Do what you need, take a break if needed as well. Hoping to see you around.... wherever that is.
@bashadow(70)· 2349d
The holding pattern is still in place, how to judge a thing that is not available yet. I am looking forward to see what develops, i have even maxed my SP out as much as I can for the new chain. I like some of what I have heard, but as you know hearing and seeing, reading and reality are two different things. I did caution one person about burning bridges, I have seen a lot of bridge burning post. The simple fact of the matter is no one at this point really knows what Hive is going to look like.

I have a hard time being in two places at once myself, I have never seen the fascination with twitter that so many people seem to have, I did not like it from day one tried it for I think a month and never looked back at it, yet a lot of steem user have been talking about it during the last month, trying to get people to re-join what I feel is a failed platform.

Talk/type/hype, we have a lot of that. When we have a product and I have used it for a bit, then I will be able to see where I want to be. I don't think things will get better on Steem Block Chain, but they might. I don't think Hive is going to stand up to expectation but it might. As it stands right now the most important word is might. So I will just have to wait see and evaluate when the new chain is rolled out. It could be a dream come true, or just another twitterverse that goes nowhere for me.

So you not jumping the gun is a good thing.
@soyrosa(75)· 2349d
<3

Take the break. See what happens. I'm hoping but not knowing there will be one place that feels more familiar and with the most known faces. I'm hoping to meet you there.

My feelings about all of this are changing a bit too often currently, wasn't even able to post the thing that I had written as I didn't know if I felt that way after writing it anymore.

Maybe tomorrow.

See ya <3
@joshman(74)· 2349d

Where your eyes are is where I'll be.

I suspect there will be quite a few cross-eyed people mulling about in the short term...
@whatsup(76)· 2349d
They don't get to make me pick.

I haven't been posting much anyway.
@nickyhavey(74)· 2349d
I'll go where my friends go, which is likely to be Hive but may have to take a break myself!

Or just have more studio time and work on my own website seeing as I'm paying for that 🤣
@abitcoinskeptic(75)· 2349d
I ♡ ~~STEEM~~ HIVE

Now that this is out of the way and my post on the subject, I prose to mostly just dance for the hive whales, write about governance and continue my photostories (all appropriately tagged for yor avoidance pleasure).

Take a break and godspeed (or whatever pace you want) on your future endeavors.

Hope to see you somewhere in due time.
@tarazkp(86)· 2349d

I'm not interested in a platform where exploits earn more than hard work.

The entire problem with the platform that is the global economy.

I will likely mostly be on Hive, but will continue knocking around here too, as I have put a lot into this place and think it is worth at least observing, if not participating directly in what could happen to it.