Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat

Nichanan Kesonpat wrote in Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle: It feels like we're entering the next evolutionary phase of online communities, where you and others are not just members of the same chat room talking about a shared interest, but are stakeholders of the community itself, in a system with baked-in incentives to rew... See more

But for most creators, it will likely be a challenge to build an individual community around their singular presence... most fans would probably prefer to join a community around multiple artists, rather than to have separate Discord channels and low-liquidity tokens for each of the 500 creators they love.

The communities could distribute governance tokens to the holders of character NFTs, which in turn can be used to vote on key creative decisions. Such collaborative relationships between creator and community are already happening and will only increase as participants explore the possibilities, both creative (including governance) and financial.

As a result, we’re now at a turning point, where fans and creators are trying to figure out how they can grow together and create more unique, interactive experiences. This is where crypto and creator coins come in. Fans get to be literal holders of a token demonstrating their superfandom of a creator or artist and can use that token as an access p... See more

So crypto enables creators to bypass gatekeepers.