I'd go with Youtube.
Several brands there with massive fan bases. Brands (or channels) can create a rewarding community for themselves that would rival something like Patreon. Patreon proves fan bases bring their money with them. 1 brand = thousands of fans arriving here.
Direct-to-fan experiences.
The other two options would only lead to attracting more content creators wanting to get paid. In other words: stagnation
Worth mentioning "Support my patreon" is said all day online to millions of people. Take that 100k, have people saying "Support my Hive thing," forever. The Brands end up marketing this place, for free.
Brand says, "Support OUR community on Hive" to their audience. aka: Paradigm shift
Guess who's in their audience? Other brands that don't even exist on Youtube. They come build their communities for their markets. aka: Snowball effect.
Spending $100,000 to recruit random creators into topic-based communities that have no audience won’t pay off — it will just increase losses because those creators won’t generate revenue.
We're not a Patreon, but rather a blog-type social network... So advertising like that would be a waste of time and money.
A brand—like the owner of a YouTube channel—is a “topic” people care about.
Communities form around these topics, and we build those communities here.
Members post their thoughts about topics. Patreon proves people will financially support their favorite topics; attracting those supporters along with content creators not only brings money in the door, but also gives communities a way to reward themselves. That’s a tangible perk, and it hasn’t been done here before, or anywhere. Staking then voting is a strong, novel alternative to traditional support methods.
Patreon’s marketing approach is clever and worth replicating to get the most out of that $100k. If someone merely created the topic here without the creator broadcasting to millions on YouTube, the community would be limited to local bloggers trying to earn from a tiny, absent consumer base. Most of those creators would struggle because few locals are interested in the topic.
There are millions of these “topics” and hundreds of millions of people interested in them — you can’t have one without the other. Attracting a large base of supportive consumers creates a measurable opportunity that attracts investors.
When fans finish with a creator’s topic for the day, their attention often spills over to related communities and creators. That audience spillover can drive traffic and growth for current bloggers and even for games, which in turn attracts more development opportunities.
That's my view. Just wanted to clarify. And keep in mind this post is just a test.
technically we could be way better than patreon given inflation rewards that don't cost stakeholders anything as long as they check on them from time to time as well as feeless tips once we have enough merchants/ways to get in and out of hive with as low fees as fiat tips/donations.
If I were a YouTube content creator, I would never lead my audience to spend money anywhere other than on me.