Hot take: Your follower count means nothing if you can't convert attention into revenue.

@coingecko has 18.4M monthly visitors. At standard ad rates, that's roughly $500K per month just from basic monetization..

Most creators with 100K followers can't even monetize $5K monthly because they never built actual systems.

The InfoFi era taught everyone to farm engagement but FEW learned how to build businesses around their attention.

Now that the easy money dried up, everyone's scrambling to figure out what attention is actually worth.

Here's the answer: attention without infrastructure is just vanity bs.

The creators who win post infoFi aren't the ones with the biggest accounts.

They're the ones who built:
- Direct relationships with brands
- Consulting pipelines
- Product businesses
- Agency partnerships

They treated their audience like a business asset, not just a flex.

If you spent the last year growing followers but didn't build any monetization infrastructure, you're about to learn an expensive lesson about the difference between attention & revenue.