@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

no one is denying that content has value

ofc there is value in creating content _and_ distributing content

i am asking, concretely, why tokenization is [or will be] a 10x better value prop to today's creators than the web2 equivalent (relevant: https://www.shopify.com/blog/influencer-pricing)

creators owning their following seems pretty valuable, although arguably e.g. substack lets you do that today. And also owning the relationships has nothing to do with tokenizing in particular

my personal intuition (and admittedly biased desire) is that there are far more interesting onchain structures to bring creators, curators, and fans together in long-term alignment for the good-of-all-parties than tokenization. But I am here asking questions to learn and [try to] understand what about tokenization in particular has you so excited

boosting this because i really want to know:

what's the most compelling "_definite_ optimist" take on content tokenization

i vaguely suspect that the tokenistas are right on a long timeline (just look at the trend to date), but i still personally haven't heard anyone make a great case for it. Arguments for it kind of remind me in ~2016 when everyone would talk about decentralized-uber as a killer ethereum use case because "uber takes so much value from the drivers/riders"

Not that ChatGPT is the best interlocutor for this but I asked it your question and the result ..... eh

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for better or worse, on par with most of what i see on socials