Hey @kenanqhd long time no talk buddy hope your doing well. Yeah my issue with all these projects is money just can't come out of thin air to pay creators. I got into a discussion on Reddit and someone told me they plan on rolling out advertising. Whether theiy plan to start their own ad network like SMOKE plans to do or whether they go with an established network I'm not sure.

I like that plan because I think ads are necessary to bring in real money, nobody is going to make money if crypto itself is going to be the monetization plan and nobody is going to make money if your peers need to support you, you need advertisers IMHO.

That said how do you keep the platform from falling into the same issues as Youtube which is being beholden to advertisers and censoring certain content advertisers don't like? Do they just plan on telling advertisers look come advertise here but its a free space so if you dont like whats being posted fuckoff and take your ad money elsewhere. Personlaly I don't think that's a horrible plan we are what we are if you wanna advertise here cool if not dont

I'm pretty pessimistic about crypto right now however this big shit show going on with Youtube and Patreon and really all types of social media trying to silence anyone who disagrees with them or who offends anyone is going to drive people to crypto. I know Jordan Peterson isn't a huge figure but he's pretty popular and if he goes on BitTube potentially you get Dave Reuben and Sam Harris and all those other figures in that space going over there as well, who knows maybe even Joe Rogan someday.

I agree about the economics. I was asking around on Reddit and somoene is claiming they are going to have ads but I havn't actually seen anything from the company saying that or describing how it will work. I think ads are a necessity to bring any real money into a platform because if the plan was to have your peers support you with bittube tokens thats destined to fail and if the plan is to have people pay for services with said tokens to raise money thats going to fail as well. 

My other question which I posed in my comment to @kenanqhd is if they do allow ads will they wind up being beholden to advertisers like youtube or will they take an approach of we are what we are, if your a whiny little bitch dont advertise here