LOCAL social media.

@Roas
All fine and good until, You take in Patreon ,Youtube membership, Website Membership, Superchats, ETC ETC. You could spend just on just one Creator a hundred or more bucks a month. It would be different if you could be a supporter on one of their platforms and have it cross to all. But that aint happening. LOCALS is the worse of them all making a paywall to even comment or discus.

It is like contractors now wanting to charge for an estimate. I just had plumbing work done and had 2 I called wanting to charge for an estimate. After I got the estimate and company I wanted (Free Estimate) I made it a point to call the two who wanted to charge and inform them that because they wanted to charge $80.00 for an estimate they just lost a $8,500.00 job.  Locals has already put me off to even wanting to go there anymore, because if I have to pay to talk to people or even watch many things I can simply go to one of the other platforms that DO NOT charge.

So free and talk to creators and other members of a community…….OR…… Not pay and not get to talk to creators other members and many videos you cannot see. Im going FREE for the same thing.

@Roas
Honestly to me, the best world would be for this site to be turned in to an autonomous platform unto itself where ALL G&G creators can come together as  CO-OP. This would mean they put all videos, here, live feeds here etc etc. G&G is then the hosting company for G&G not relying on anyone else. I would be happy to support them as  a whole. Then if I want to drop money on a super chat or sticker Charity. I have a much higher degree of confidence in the money being used to pay to creators, see the sight grow and be able to actually be part of a community.

This would also IMO catch on and draw many others which would give G&G by sheer weight in numbers a very loud voice in numerous hobby and entertainment interest. Another win.

Getting them Paid would be easy, Lets say G&G as a group managed to through membership, stickers, superchats merch etc brought in 50k a month, not a hard goal to obtain. Remove the cost for running the G&G server, forums etc (keeping the lights on). lets say it is 10k, well then you take 20% of the remaining 40k and put that to growth, advertising and business expenses, leaving you 28k to pay the employee’s (creators) say there is Ryan, Jeremy, Marc, Tom, X-ray, Drunk, Krista, Tug to start they each get $3.500.oo a month. As time goes on and more creators see the growth and want to be part of it, revenue increases. It is really no different than old Farm Co-ops.

It takes people up front that are willing to see that vision and future and focus it all to one place and see it through, but most co-ops last for decades, heck some farming ones are still going today and over 50 years old. Eventually though they will need hire people to help or do other things such as filming on location and so on. This is where as new creators come in the money generated still pays the creator but also employees. IT also then gives them the ability to be a LOBBY to people in power. Could you imagine a Lobby going to Disney representing 300,000 members or more and saying enough of the “woke” especially if that CO-OP managed to by a substantial amount of Disney SHARES or Warner etc.

But none of that is possible with constant Social Media Jumping and certainly not with one where it puts a Paywall up many people will turn around and walk away.