Curious Creator Club
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For those curious about building a sustainable creator income on Farcaster and other platforms.
Scheduled weekly reminder that weekends are slow around Farcaster, so if your engagement is down the next couple of days, that's why.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
I built my audience from around 2014 to around 2019 on one consistent featured post.
Psychic DJ.
I'd put on a Pandora.com channel that I'd created specifically for that, I'd make a post offering to give people a song as an answer to their question, and they could tip me if they wanted to.
It started as Psychic DJ Hour, but it got so big it became Psychic DJ Day and I did it everyday for years.
Even now, I could post a Psychic DJ Day post on Facebook, and it'd be *flooded* with comments in no time.
I just listen to the Pandora station, look up the song on YouTube, comment with the link, and wait for the next one - usually doing a whole bunch of other work while the music is playing.
Think outside the box when figuring out how to build your community.
How can you create engagement?
Psychic DJ.
I'd put on a Pandora.com channel that I'd created specifically for that, I'd make a post offering to give people a song as an answer to their question, and they could tip me if they wanted to.
It started as Psychic DJ Hour, but it got so big it became Psychic DJ Day and I did it everyday for years.
Even now, I could post a Psychic DJ Day post on Facebook, and it'd be *flooded* with comments in no time.
I just listen to the Pandora station, look up the song on YouTube, comment with the link, and wait for the next one - usually doing a whole bunch of other work while the music is playing.
Think outside the box when figuring out how to build your community.
How can you create engagement?
Free mint and rewards!!!
This channel will still be gated by the hypersub, so that's nice an easy!
I want to get in a better habit of sharing more about my strategies here on Farcaster as I work to grow my platform more.
One thing I know from Facebook is that having regular features is *extremely* useful for building community.
When people know they can expect to see something on a certain day, they'll be there to see it.
Here on Farcaster, in channels, we can create rituals.
So in /thecurioushermit I created a "ritual" cast that will go out every Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. EST.
It's a basic AMA post. Great chance to come together for conversation - and Moxie - and y'all can ask me anything about my quirky life, content creation business, going back to school in middle age, or even the most random questions you can think of.
There are very few topics I haven't explored at least a bit over the years, so when I say AMA, I mean ANYTHING and if I don't know, we'll find someone who does.
I want to get in a better habit of sharing more about my strategies here on Farcaster as I work to grow my platform more.
One thing I know from Facebook is that having regular features is *extremely* useful for building community.
When people know they can expect to see something on a certain day, they'll be there to see it.
Here on Farcaster, in channels, we can create rituals.
So in /thecurioushermit I created a "ritual" cast that will go out every Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. EST.
It's a basic AMA post. Great chance to come together for conversation - and Moxie - and y'all can ask me anything about my quirky life, content creation business, going back to school in middle age, or even the most random questions you can think of.
There are very few topics I haven't explored at least a bit over the years, so when I say AMA, I mean ANYTHING and if I don't know, we'll find someone who does.
Some really good advice in here. And not just YouTube, either. Applies to anything that's about putting yourself out there.
It's not *just* about audience growth.
https://youtu.be/Nw5E56gb_oA?si=3Jfj4YGFAzoqY-b4
It's not *just* about audience growth.
https://youtu.be/Nw5E56gb_oA?si=3Jfj4YGFAzoqY-b4
I launched the auction for my /thecurioushermit channel the other day, but I haven't been promoting it very much because I want the closing price to stay low.
My personal fan token closed at around 500, and it's now up over 1000 Moxie. Which is great! Yay, profit!
But also, I'm a PROLIFIC caster, and I frequently cast some random me-specific ramblings in there, stuff that actually does accumulate some Moxie, so that channel fan token will be a slow, but steady, growth investment.
Keeping it cheap to start means those gains will happen a bit faster early on.
My personal fan token closed at around 500, and it's now up over 1000 Moxie. Which is great! Yay, profit!
But also, I'm a PROLIFIC caster, and I frequently cast some random me-specific ramblings in there, stuff that actually does accumulate some Moxie, so that channel fan token will be a slow, but steady, growth investment.
Keeping it cheap to start means those gains will happen a bit faster early on.
Scheduled weekly reminder that weekends are slow around Farcaster, so if your engagement is down the next couple of days, that's why.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
So I’m working on an article on how to do video for this channel and it gave me this idea that has precedent with Patreon.
I want it to be a paragraph article AND my script for a video. It’s much easier to write the script first than it is to edit everything sooo I was thinking that’d be a neat perk / benefit for FanToken holders or hypersubbers is to get early access via an exclusive token gated article of the script for the video that’s in production!
https://hltxd3p.warpcast.tools/api/polls/frame
I want it to be a paragraph article AND my script for a video. It’s much easier to write the script first than it is to edit everything sooo I was thinking that’d be a neat perk / benefit for FanToken holders or hypersubbers is to get early access via an exclusive token gated article of the script for the video that’s in production!
https://hltxd3p.warpcast.tools/api/polls/frame
As we're getting ready for channel changes, I've added @hyperbot as the main mod for this channel. That'll token gate this channel to the hypersub!
I'm doing a Mad Mystic on Facebook this evening.
It's a targeted high-engagement post that also serves as a tipping opportunity for my audience to throw some money at me because I shifted to a donation/pay what you can model in late 2019 after attending a silent meditation retreat where my atoms dissolved and I became one with universe.
Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
Literally, in my case. I have a woodstove and live in Flint where we still don't really trust the water.
Anyway... I get super freaking stoned and chat with the atoms, giving those who comment - regardless of if they've tipped - a chance to see what floats through me from the universe to them.
I don't really call it psychic.
It's just unfiltered flow of words.
But I had $45 in tips within two minutes, and the engagement boost will ripple out to my other posts because of how the algorithm works.
People keep coming back for them.
Again and again.
It's a targeted high-engagement post that also serves as a tipping opportunity for my audience to throw some money at me because I shifted to a donation/pay what you can model in late 2019 after attending a silent meditation retreat where my atoms dissolved and I became one with universe.
Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
Literally, in my case. I have a woodstove and live in Flint where we still don't really trust the water.
Anyway... I get super freaking stoned and chat with the atoms, giving those who comment - regardless of if they've tipped - a chance to see what floats through me from the universe to them.
I don't really call it psychic.
It's just unfiltered flow of words.
But I had $45 in tips within two minutes, and the engagement boost will ripple out to my other posts because of how the algorithm works.
People keep coming back for them.
Again and again.
A good chunk of this video is a conversation with a woman who lives in a remote village in China, and how she uses Douyin (Chinese TikTok) to sell local goods and bring money to her family and village.
She also discusses the tradition of polygamous marriage in her village - mostly polyandrous, one woman, multiple husbands, as a way to control the population when resources are very scarce.
People are interested in the lives of people all around the world.
You can build a good social media following just talking about the "not normal" bits of your life, even if it's normal to you.
https://youtu.be/8H8AEf8zBUU?si=sfiBRuULTCKNXP9m
She also discusses the tradition of polygamous marriage in her village - mostly polyandrous, one woman, multiple husbands, as a way to control the population when resources are very scarce.
People are interested in the lives of people all around the world.
You can build a good social media following just talking about the "not normal" bits of your life, even if it's normal to you.
https://youtu.be/8H8AEf8zBUU?si=sfiBRuULTCKNXP9m
You cannot predict what's going to go viral.
Nor can you control where your content is going to go.
And there's no guarantee going viral will really change anything for you.
I made the post that's shared in the video on 9/15. I've made $32 on it in the Creator Performance Bonus program on Facebook.
I also shared the same thing on Threads - where it also went viral - and on Farcaster where hardly anybody engaged with it.
It was a cross-posting experimenting of the sort that helps me fine-tune my content for the different audiences I have on the different platforms.
It's been screenshotted and shared on TikTok and Reels - which is where @christin saw it.
Chasing virality isn't always lucrative.
But I also wasn't chasing virality.
I was just sharing something I learned watching a video assigned by the Neuroethics professor while I was getting ready to take the quiz.
Nor can you control where your content is going to go.
And there's no guarantee going viral will really change anything for you.
I made the post that's shared in the video on 9/15. I've made $32 on it in the Creator Performance Bonus program on Facebook.
I also shared the same thing on Threads - where it also went viral - and on Farcaster where hardly anybody engaged with it.
It was a cross-posting experimenting of the sort that helps me fine-tune my content for the different audiences I have on the different platforms.
It's been screenshotted and shared on TikTok and Reels - which is where @christin saw it.
Chasing virality isn't always lucrative.
But I also wasn't chasing virality.
I was just sharing something I learned watching a video assigned by the Neuroethics professor while I was getting ready to take the quiz.
If you need to set up splits for anything: https://app.splits.org/
I'll be setting up a split on my Paragraph to divide the earnings from mints between myself and the CuriousDAO treasury - which is targeted towards paying for my future education anyway, but if we play the game right, will also become a great investment for the DAO members as my audience grows and my income grows.
Because one of the things I want to learn is how to grow in crypto through a variety of strategies at various risk levels.
And if I learn how to do that, it'll benefit the DAO members, too, not just in revenue for the treasury, but for developing their own investment strategies, because I share what I learn as I go.
I'll be setting up a split on my Paragraph to divide the earnings from mints between myself and the CuriousDAO treasury - which is targeted towards paying for my future education anyway, but if we play the game right, will also become a great investment for the DAO members as my audience grows and my income grows.
Because one of the things I want to learn is how to grow in crypto through a variety of strategies at various risk levels.
And if I learn how to do that, it'll benefit the DAO members, too, not just in revenue for the treasury, but for developing their own investment strategies, because I share what I learn as I go.
Scheduled weekly reminder that weekends are slow around Farcaster, so if your engagement is down the next couple of days, that's why.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
I have some ideas about how creator tokens can be used to build cozy communities with their own little micro-tipping economies.
So today, I'm learning about bonding curves.
This will, of course, be very useful information for when I'm creating a newbies course for CuriousDAO over the next couple months!
So today, I'm learning about bonding curves.
This will, of course, be very useful information for when I'm creating a newbies course for CuriousDAO over the next couple months!
A post I made on Facebook - that went viral on Facebook - has now been screenshotted and made it to TikTok.
https://www.tiktok.com/@_sofisticated/video/7417645450729196843
https://www.tiktok.com/@_sofisticated/video/7417645450729196843
I started my /microfiction personal streak challenge today.
I was worried I wouldn't have any ideas, but sure enough, I did.
Mashed the voted on theme around in my head.
Cozy Dystopian is the theme that was voted on through Ponder poll.
Something cozy.
A library.
Something dystopian.
The end of the world.
Let the idea percolate around a little bit, and ultimately landed on a little twist on the "paperclip optimizer."
Today is Day 1, and it's going to be interesting to see what the daily consistency of writing and casting a new piece of microfiction does both for my writing skills, and for channel and audience growth!
I'm also thinking about some ideas around potential rewards for minting all the pieces the whole 100 days - I put the first one on Zora a bit ago.
Suggestions?
I was worried I wouldn't have any ideas, but sure enough, I did.
Mashed the voted on theme around in my head.
Cozy Dystopian is the theme that was voted on through Ponder poll.
Something cozy.
A library.
Something dystopian.
The end of the world.
Let the idea percolate around a little bit, and ultimately landed on a little twist on the "paperclip optimizer."
Today is Day 1, and it's going to be interesting to see what the daily consistency of writing and casting a new piece of microfiction does both for my writing skills, and for channel and audience growth!
I'm also thinking about some ideas around potential rewards for minting all the pieces the whole 100 days - I put the first one on Zora a bit ago.
Suggestions?
@seemore insights for a Top Castor.
Raw numbers.
How much I cast, reply, and react to get that 5 USDC daily.
These are useful numbers to pay attention to if you're trying to make it as a content creator.
Especially that number of unique casters engaged with.
The bigger that number is, the more you're going to grow.
Raw numbers.
How much I cast, reply, and react to get that 5 USDC daily.
These are useful numbers to pay attention to if you're trying to make it as a content creator.
Especially that number of unique casters engaged with.
The bigger that number is, the more you're going to grow.
I've been laying groundwork on Facebook to start bringing more and more creators here in the future.
There's a LOT of foundational stuff to build so they don't get here, get overwhelmed, and then bail - that's why the current CuriousDAO proposal is a series of courses to introduce creators to web3, blockchain, and crypto!
It's in rough draft phase right now, but the idea is to get people into Farcaster, into really good newbie and creator-focused channels/communities, get them up to speed with tipping and Moxie and memecoins, give them direction if they wanna dip their toes in dev, teach them how to mint, etc.
All the stuff I had to learn from scratch the last two months.
And I'm good at learning. Like, the bestest even. It's my whole life.
So now I can turn around and create content that makes it easier for others to learn it, too!
There's a LOT of foundational stuff to build so they don't get here, get overwhelmed, and then bail - that's why the current CuriousDAO proposal is a series of courses to introduce creators to web3, blockchain, and crypto!
It's in rough draft phase right now, but the idea is to get people into Farcaster, into really good newbie and creator-focused channels/communities, get them up to speed with tipping and Moxie and memecoins, give them direction if they wanna dip their toes in dev, teach them how to mint, etc.
All the stuff I had to learn from scratch the last two months.
And I'm good at learning. Like, the bestest even. It's my whole life.
So now I can turn around and create content that makes it easier for others to learn it, too!
If you're a member of the Curious Creators Club, you're now a member of the CuriousDAO. 1000 CURIOUS governance tokens were transferred to each hypersub members last night, and active hypersub members will continue to earn governance tokens each month they are active - which means if your hypersub ever goes inactive, you're still a member of CuriousDAO as long as you hold CURIOUS tokens!
Together, we'll figure out how to build a community-driven education and research funding organization for content creators in the web3 ecosystems.
Still working on docs to explain it all, but the first proposal is up for vote!
A series of courses to introduce people to web3, get them familiar with the ecosystem and all the possibilities, and get them building - whatever they build - ASAP.
https://app.aragon.org/#/daos/base/0xe5c6c69114116b777dd0b9e0cffa93dbb8922031/governance/proposals/0xa775bb9db387073a00d3d3f23e8808b83ef35783_0x1
Together, we'll figure out how to build a community-driven education and research funding organization for content creators in the web3 ecosystems.
Still working on docs to explain it all, but the first proposal is up for vote!
A series of courses to introduce people to web3, get them familiar with the ecosystem and all the possibilities, and get them building - whatever they build - ASAP.
https://app.aragon.org/#/daos/base/0xe5c6c69114116b777dd0b9e0cffa93dbb8922031/governance/proposals/0xa775bb9db387073a00d3d3f23e8808b83ef35783_0x1
Scheduled weekly reminder that weekends are slow around Farcaster, so if your engagement is down the next couple of days, that's why.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
You can either use the slowdown to step away from social for a bit, or you can use it to dig into some channels you don't usually visit and surface some new great content and make some new connections with the other weekenders.
All my hypersub members have been granted 1000 CURIOUS tokens on Base, which grants them membership to the brand new CuriousDAO.
What's that? Check a couple posts back on my feed for a preview, but essentially, phase 1 goal is to get my education paid for, while giving my investors access to content I create as I go through that education, and also vote on some of my decisions for electives and programs to pursue next!
Phase 2 goal will be to add CuriousDAO scholars - additional people who we're funding education and research opportunities for them to pursue without being beholden to a university or corporation.
Independent, community-backed education and research.
Onchain.
Wanna join?
You have to join the hypersub <3
https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/curious-creator-club-p81zdg097e2o
What's that? Check a couple posts back on my feed for a preview, but essentially, phase 1 goal is to get my education paid for, while giving my investors access to content I create as I go through that education, and also vote on some of my decisions for electives and programs to pursue next!
Phase 2 goal will be to add CuriousDAO scholars - additional people who we're funding education and research opportunities for them to pursue without being beholden to a university or corporation.
Independent, community-backed education and research.
Onchain.
Wanna join?
You have to join the hypersub <3
https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/curious-creator-club-p81zdg097e2o
Your art alone isn't going to make you successful.
Especially not on social media.
Because people don't just want to look at art.
They can do that anywhere.
They can tell a machine exactly what they want to see and get it in seconds.
They want to connect to the artist behind the art.
To succeed as an artist in social media, you have to let people know the person behind the art.
Especially not on social media.
Because people don't just want to look at art.
They can do that anywhere.
They can tell a machine exactly what they want to see and get it in seconds.
They want to connect to the artist behind the art.
To succeed as an artist in social media, you have to let people know the person behind the art.