I was largely unaware of all of this, so it's great to see a summary of it all, thank you.

I started to avoid Raymond pretty early on when he was pushing classic manosphere talking points to build up his audience and couldn't seem to handle any of my pushback. It's a shame because I know a lot of people that saw promise in the BRO token...

I think tokenomics is so interesting, but it's genuinely hard to make it actually work. I personally think there are two separate Hive economies; the actual content blockchain and the trading-exchanges... the trading economy seems to not care at all on anything happening on the blockchain, it's all arbitrage and speculation - but without it the Hive blockchain would have no value. The content economy is just a tiny fraction of the overall trading economy, so it works... but I don't think tokens can really survive otherwise.