Dasha got casted on season three of “Succession,” which followed with more podcast subscriptions and Instagram followers but that doesn’t translate in value for fans. As “Red Scare” grows and the hosts become more notable, so do their fans’ investments in them. So if Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova, the lovely contrarian Russian hosts of “Red Scare,” had their own social tokens or NFT ( non-fungible token) collections with customized utility, they would then be able to give their listeners an opportunity to own a fraction of their fame. If they do, they’re likely new to fame and are blinded by the money, but the reality is that removing the middleman is the best-case scenario for both creators and fans. I can’t think of any musician who spoke highly of their record label, or a social media influencer who explicitly talks about how great Instagram is. It really sucks because fans are arguably more favorable to creators than to the platforms they use for publishing. The 12,000-plus subscribers have zero ownership despite having a significant impact in the podcast’s growth through engagements, social media posts and, of course, their monthly monetary investments. I listen to a podcast called Red Scare and pay $5 a month for it on Patreon, which to my knowledge is split equitably between the creators (podcast hosts) and the platform (Patreon). Creator tokens can be used for all content creators.
The cathartic feeling of knowing something before it becomes cool or mainstream, regardless of how annoying it can be, is in fact valuable to some degree. The financialization of early artist discovery is neglected even though it does possess some level of value, but that value isn’t captured as of yet. But if he did in fact put some money on it, then it is documented on the blockchain, immutably, that he was in fact an early fan. If he only attended the show without investing in $LANA, then it would speak less about him being an early fan.
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Having skin in the game and investing financially in the artist would be the determining factor of fandom, not attendance at a concert. My friend’s investment in $LANA would be the determining factor of being a true early Lana fan. We’ll use $LANA as the hypothetical ticker here, if blockchain technology was present at the time and $LANA was listed on a creator platform like Rally.
Let’s say that in 2007, Lana had her own creator token. Aziz Alangari is a marketing associate at Wachsman, a PR firm.