Degen

GM Degens!

The $DEGEN Airdrop 2 program alone has distributed 3.8B $DEGEN (worth $42.7M) to 54.7k wallets in under a year. That’s an average payout of $779.5 per user. 🎉

But how does that compare to payouts from Web2 platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube? Let’s dive in! ⬇️

2/ Twitter vs. $DEGEN

• Twitter’s creator payout program (launched in 2023) pays select accounts with huge followings.
• Many large influencers received only a few hundred dollars per month, despite driving millions of impressions.
• Regular users? They get $0. Most never see any payout for their tweets, even if they go viral. 👀

Meanwhile, Farcaster users average $779.5 simply by engaging with the community and claiming $DEGEN. No ads or sponsors required.

5/ Why $DEGEN > Traditional Social Payouts

Web2 platforms gatekeep payouts behind ads, sponsors, and select programs that exclude the majority of users.

$DEGEN removes the middlemen and ensures value flows directly to the community.

4/ YouTube’s Pay Model: Hard Work for Little Reward

• The average YouTube payout is $2-$4 per 1,000 views, meaning 200k-400k views are needed to earn $779.
• This is a tough benchmark for many creators, and consistent earnings can be even harder. 😞
• Unlike $DEGEN, which directly rewards user participation, YouTube payouts depend on sustained growth.

With $42.7M distributed across Farcaster, we’ve already proven that users can benefit from a decentralized ecosystem where their activity creates value.

We hope to see it grow further and make more progress day by day.

These payments are what have made Farcaster grow and become so popular!

3/ Facebook & Instagram: Are You Getting Paid?

• Meta’s platforms prioritize ad revenue, so regular users earn nothing.
• Only a small % of creators get experimental payouts through programs like Facebook Reels, and even that’s highly selective.
• Creators rely heavily on sponsorship deals, not platform payouts.

$DEGEN flips the model: Farcaster users earn directly from the ecosystem.

Just a brilliant logic... U got 10 apples and I got 0, but on average each of us have 5...

Does regular users of twitter/yt/fb buy shares their to become a part of payout program? No. In FC regular users put real money in lock to gain ability to earn at least something with as good content as they can make...

With this logic:
There is $583 trillion money in the world,
There are 8202630161 People in the world ,
The people in the world receive $71,074.32 on average!

I'm still trying to figure out how to join

ordinary users also receive pennies, and only “promoted accounts” receive a lot are equal to those that choose “Twitter”, only here other similarly promoted users choose. In order to get “a lot” - you need to lock in just as many funds. If you did not get them at an early stage of farming - to buy from the market 100k-1kk just simply will not pay off your efforts. Because the token price drops from season to season.