I like your comics. You can take a chill pill though since the payment to SG sounds as if it will be changed......
If you think it's bad right now, you should have been here before SG began to distribute rewards around. It was horrible. Steemiciders everywhere........
I would hope that in the future all the guilds will not be needed.......No idea though since this has never been attempted before.
Do I need a prescription for those?
Skip the chill pill and double down. That's waaaay more edgy. ;)
you're featured in my comic
https://steemit.com/comic/@stellabelle/i-just-reached-74-reputation-a-comic
So, basically, we've moved from a situation that 8 out of 10 Steemians committed Steemicide before the guilds, to now saving like 5 out of 10 Steemians from Steemicide due to the guilds' work. The residual effect however is creating a gamed trending page which turns off new users and also alienates existing intelligent creators. Popularity within the system is valued over everything else, so now we're closer to Black Mirror than ever.
Best episode of Black Mirror to date, IMO.
I can definitely see a parallel between that episode's "universe" and Steemit's. I tend to identify more with the woman truck-driver (don't know her name off of the top of my head) than with Lacy, though...well, that is, until she was jailed.
I have too much pride to bend in any way for popularity/ approval and I have the tendency to go against the grain with the sole aim of "flipping-off the status quo" - a very painful weakness (strength?) to suffer from!
I am mixed, part Lacy part truck driver! I used to be Lacy early in life, straight A's in school, etc. I was very quiet. Obedient. Now, not so much but Lacy is still there in me. I am leaning more and more towards the truck driver, and when I made the Steemicide episode of Dollar Vigilante, that is my true nature coming out.
Funny. That describes me almost to a T!
As I got nearer to graduating high-school, I found it more and more unbearable to make efforts at appealing to the "authorities" and peers: teachers, parents/ grandparents, friends, etc. It got to where I simply couldn't respect myself anymore for being "fake" (charming) - I felt compelled to be "real", even if it meant that I got "rewarded" less than before.
Very well said.
Thank you.
If you sensed a mixed reaction from me, it's because I've turned into lacy: