Always the same in our world. People give monetary capital much higher value than social capital…crying over prices and giving an institution of the community the cause ofc. Whoever gives KUS and JAY the cause of the problem should really ask himself the question was I really part of this community and what are my motivation in here. If mainly money, then please leave the room you hurting more then you give this ecosystem. Jay was from the beginning I met him in 2022 purely enthusiastic about the ecosystem and gave his heart and sweat to it. The costs for his effort and energy was more than valuable if not underpaid. He gave 3 years of his life to this eco in a way not many can do and you talking about him being the problem ugghh. Sorry but this is nonsense!! People like him let people stay in the ecosystem. I predict that Polkadot losses it’s gathering voice the glue for discurs. It’s sad to see that people with almost no effort just having some DOT or having their emotional dramatic glasses on hurting this community so much. Honor this team and the Jay instead what effort and quality they brought. I hope this will be reavalued by the voices of the community who appreciate the efforts of Jay and the Kus Team. So they still can be a light in this network, bringing people together and sharing good vibes.
To all out there who criticize ask yourself what did you do for Polkadot!!!
Peace out
I hope you amazing Christmas and a good slide into the new year. (Yes also to you you Grinches of this ecosystem)
The Kus provides consistent high quality content. I’m not seeing anyone else doing this, besides one or two select people in the ecosystem. Losing the Kus would be loss for Polkadot’s already thin marketing and content creation landscape. The people saying the Kus is has received too much funding should look at what a content producer of this calibre is worth on market related terms, outside of Polkadot, not what they think should be compensated given the state of Polkadot. If we don’t keep high quality contributors in Polkadot, the ecosystem will suffer even more.
My support goes to every community member who, over the years, has contributed in any way to keeping the name, the brand, and all the technical and non-technical aspects of Polkadot alive around the world.
To you at The Kus, and to everyone else, I offer my full solidarity and a heartfelt THANK YOU.
I’ve had a few opportunities to speak with Jay over the past two years a genuinely pleasant, approachable and knowledgeable person.
That said, there seems to be a fundamental error in judgment: people are quick to criticize those who genuinely tried to do something positive, while overlooking the many challenges that were faced and solved in the absence of any real, central leadership.
Human nature works like this: tell everyone that I’m a scammer, and people will instead start convincing themselves that this person is not a scammer.
Of course, there’s also the “group-hugging” rhetoric among scammers themselves, which ends up persuading people who don’t understand the situation to believe he isn’t a scammer either.
The evidence is plain and concrete: turning statements that guests have already made into interview questions (statements that can be found with a simple search), producing simplistic videos with very low view counts, offering no substantive content, and then taking millions of dollars from the treasury. Do you really think such low-view, low-quality videos are worth that kind of money?
Look only at the basic facts. Don’t fill in the gaps with imagination or fantasy.
For the past 3 years I have watched AAG on a weekly basis, Monday kusama time, thursday polkadot aag and sunday spacemonkies.
I want to show my support for the content that the Kus puts out:
who else has produced the same amount of high quality polkadot related content?(Other ecosystems are spending way more on what is in my opinion bullshit click bait content with no real value but then to steal your attention, this is not the case here, rather other way around here we have the kus producing indept high quality content with projects building around the polkadot ecosystem)
AAG has been the platform for community discourse around opengov proposal, where will teams now go and present there proposals, while interacting with the community? The kus is continuously over-delivering and makes sure that atleast I stay up to date with all things polkadot(via the weekly news, there is no other account that keeps a broad eye on the ecosystem like the way the kus produces its news summaries).
During my time in the Ecosystem I have interacted and talked to Jay a lot of times and i have 0 negative things to say about him or the commitment to the polkadot ecosystem that the Kus have.
I want to publicly show my support for the Kus and hope that AAG will remain in some form or another, as loosing AAG and not replacing it with something else would be a net loss for Polkadot.