@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"

This is not optimistic - but pump inevitably got more people addicted to the casino and onboarded people into crypto. Content tokenization might be the simplest and easiest use case for non-crypto native people to understand to be onboarded into the space. 

I agree with you, just trying to play devils advocate.

Helping build @midao. Probably on the water if I’m not thinking about crypto. /eagles /betting /off-grid

i always appreciate a good steelman / devils advocate