Lately, I've seen the secondary market push royalty rates down very low, which makes creators furious. I can actually understand both sides: traders want less friction, while content creators rely on that steady cash flow. Honestly, royalties are not "divinely ordained"; they’re more like a community consensus. Once that consensus becomes unreliable, we have to admit that the business model needs to be rewritten.

Recently, social mining and fan tokens—those "attention is mining" schemes—have been popular. It sounds lively, but attention is too fleeting; today I love you, tomorrow I leave. Treating it as a mine is less reliable than treating it as the wind… I prefer projects that clearly calculate the security costs of distribution, membership benefits, and even cross-chain bridges: enabling creators to sustain themselves longer, rather than relying on a wave of emotion. Anyway, when I buy something now, I first check: if royalties are gone, what’s left of this thing?