RE: Curie Author Showcase (June 12th, 2018)
Hello, I am new to Steemit....since April I have been uploading content that I create. It may not be up to your standard but it is completely mine. I use my real name to back up my productions.
I decided earlier this year to remove myself from Youtube and move everything to this platform. Now, I am regretting closing my account. You see, I get the impression that Steemit was built as an on ramp for big brother.
Two years ago I closed my Facebook account, I was well aware of what Mark was doing and I wanted no part of it. It seems that was a mistake. Like I said above Steem=big brother. Sorry, but I am getting really upset.
My heart was broken when I was told that I could not join in with the openmic contest. They told me that I need a google account to join, and since I did not have one I could not join in. The judges (you know who I am talking about) do not like dtube or dlive. A matter of fact, bit.tube is a great source for storing videos, and you get paid continuously on them.
Currently, I follow you and made you my witness when I first joined up. I appreciate the fact that you made it a goal to find accounts that need propping.
I will give more effort to make my content more appealing. Out of all of us on here, I live off of my investments. Just like on Youtube before they started demonetizing everyone. I can not do my previous career because of it destroying my body. As you can see I am a nomad or some would say gypsy. My life as be turned upside down for the last five years. Being forced to become a off grid personality. This year I will celebrate 50 years on this earth, I will say to you that I had no idea that we would be in such a pickle in the present day.
My goal with my rhetoric is simple, to teach people how to survive in this world without a fascist ideal. Think for yourself, read the great works of art from the ages, remember our real history, do on to others has you would want done to yourself, have compassion for "non-normal", ignore propaganda from the fringe and stay centered in your beliefs. Another big one is the fact that not everyone is going to like you, a matter of fact there are souls out there that enjoy hurting others. Common sense? what is that in the birth of the 21st century.
I will close by saying this simple phrase, I want to belong to something big, I do not want to miss the boat. It seems the boat already left without me.
Hey there! I have actually read quite a few of your posts and understand your concern. Open mic just started requiring individuals to make their entries on YouTube... because unfortunately dtube just doesn’t work sometimes. It’s hard to judge a video when you can’t play it. In fact, about 8/10 dtube videos I try to watch don’t play... which is a bummer. I know they are working hard to fix it but at this point it is what it is.
As far as steemit, I have been here 6mths and it’s the most non filtered/anti big brother social media out there.
As far as your content, it’s hard to verify that it’s original to steemit, which is a requirement for Curie... meaning it can’t be old material posted on other social media etc.
This showcase does not have anything to do with the open mic competition or it’s judges though, and is just showcases some of the great content that Curie has upvoted the last few days. Curie is about uplifting great original content to improve the platform as a whole, they don’t require you to have a google account and don’t care what you do in your free time.
Post, great original content and Curie will find you! There are many curators always on the hunt for the exceptional.
Also the key to being successful on this platform is building relationships/followers. I suggest you check out the PAL server, they have some political radio shows I think you would like and it’s a great place to make those connections.
https://discord.gg/4Tjrp5
Have a wonderful day @white-lie-living
In your first paragraph, you state that dtube does not work. This is a true statement. If I would have known that I would have not put anything on there. Especially the dedication to my fathers death, especially to my best friend dying seven days after, especially for losing a friend to suicide, especially the video I dedicated to people losing loved ones to cancer, especially to my first love of music and lyrics (read the lyrics to "the mountain of mole hills" or "future love") that are oh so personal.
You did not mention Dlive, so far everything I put on there works to this day. I even fooled around with broadcasting, which was a nightmare to get to work. Please do not watch those vids. Otherwise Dlive has been living up to there end of the bargain I made investing in Steem.
I know why you did not mention Bittube, there the enemy. On the contrary my appointed curator. They are a friend off the blockchain, and we should embrace them as a friend to use in conjunction with Steemit. My opinion of course.
So you decided to become a curator, my hats of to you. This is a big obligation and should not be taken lightly. I see that you are a stand up person and took the time to look into your site. I am officially following you.
This is where I get offended, the third paragraph. Not sure how to answer you in regards to my stuff. Yes some are from last year, but it enhances who I am on here. I just posted two new videos, about 20 hours ago. One I took the time to write out the other I did not. You see sometimes you do not want to give all the info in writing, just sometimes you want to see if it will have legs on its own. So with that said, I will move on. I do have a thick skin, shit---I have a non American name, I look like a non American, I think like a world guy. I have been bullied for most of my life. I guess that is why I am who I am.
I am going to skip the rest and go to the last paragraph. I always want to meet like minded people. I love to have a healthy debate. If you take a look at the people I follow you can see that over ninety percent are fellow artists, writers, videographers, philosophers, and poets.
Here are the ones that I have not found, I used to have an construction company and was quite successful until my back gave out and I had to have massive surgery. You see I am going to admit something to you----I am a cripple. I want to forget my past. My past has made me bitter, because the one thing I was really good at was taken from me.
I have a huge portfolio of the projects I have done. The last thing I have that shows that I know what I am doing is currently my mobile home but, now that is falling apart. Sir, I am pretty much at my wits end.
I am in the hole, with the feds, with sallie mae, with pretty much everyone. So I was forced to sell everything, throw works of art that meant the world to me, leave people that I loved that are 6 feet under.
So, now I have a new pigeon hole that you nicely put me in. I will see out PAL! I guess I am political now.
I have no children but, I do have nieces and nephews. They do not think of me very well. So I made a pact with myself. Everything I do from now on will be for them. I guess if they read this they will find out that they are pretty much getting everything I have when I leave this earth. So, the last 5 years I have been documenting pretty much everything I do. Looks like I am not that special in regards to nomadic life. Take a look on here and you can find some of them. If you look really hard you find one that just made a video begging for money in his "dream" post. I guess from now on I will just beg for money.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to contact me. I think from this day forward I will refrain from commenting and replying to others. I really need a break, been pounding the sand for quite awhile.
p.s. i was not joking about not having enough money to buy food in my crpt video!
You mistook my comment completely, I was trying to politely explain a few things about steemit and also hope you got the hint this is not the place for this conversation. PAL is a great server... DM there if you want to chat. I’m going to flag this conversation though to remove it from this post... this post is about showcasing authors and this conversation is just taking away from that. I hope you contact me, would love to carry on this conversation in a more appropriate place. Hope you understand.
i got the memo, removed from your page. Sorry