Hey, @stevenwood.

I agree with what you said here regarding the creatives, their resiliency to weather the bear market because something inside them compels them to create, and that STEEM is not dead. Not yet. Not while it is still young, and there are still those of us here trying to earn stake and build communities.

There is a tendency to get caught up in the here and now, or the details, where the big picture gets lost. The point being, we don't know why the markets move or don't move. I've found little correlation to what's happening here having any influence on what investors do. It's natural to believe in some form of cause and effect, but I don't think enough people know about STEEM in the investor world, let alone the public at large, for what we do now to determine anything, other than dollars aren't flowing in because STEEM is not yet a household name.

I do believe, though, that it certainly can be, and that little by little, it will be. Time and patience is what is needed.