Recently, watching the secondary market slash royalties one after another, I feel quite complicated inside. To be honest, everyone just wants to trade more "efficiently," but creators are like having the faucet turned off at their convenience: it's okay when there's no fuss, but as soon as there's a dispute, it exposes that they've been relying on emotions and face-saving all along. Airdrop season is back again, task platforms are becoming more and more strict with anti-witchcraft measures, and the points system has turned the grab-and-claim crowd into a bunch of clock-in workers... Under this atmosphere, asking people to pay ongoing royalties? That's a bit difficult. Maybe I need to change the narrative: don't think of royalties as a "moral tax," but as a kind of ticket for subscriptions/rights, at least buyers know what they're purchasing. Fragmented pieces pieced together, in the end, only one word remains: restraint.