The Blaqsbi Blueprint: Digital Sanctuary and Collective Economics Okay, so if you're listening, you probably already noticed feeling we're all hyper - connected more than ever before. But well, from black and brown communities. That connection often comes with some serious downsides, marginalization. Yeah, it's a real paradox. And the sources we've looked at for this deep dive, a really hammer home this, ah, this urgent need for a digital space that feels genuinely safe, a place where you know your culture isn't just mine for trends. And maybe just maybe the person who starts something actually gets the credit for exactly. And that's what we're digging into today, this idea we're calling the Black Suit blueprint. It's not just, you know, another app trying to get users right, it seems considers a fundamental response to some pretty deep - seated systemic failures. It's like an architectural choice that puts principles, safety, empowerment ahead of just raw growth metrics. So our mission today for you listening, is to really understand this will kick things off by unpacking why something like black speed even needed to exist. We're talking about economic gaps, the social hostility on mainstream platforms. And then we'll dive into black species specific answer it structure, which seems built around these three core pillars, all designed to protect and well empowered community. Let's start with the why then, because the drives behind this. It's not just feelings. It's rooted in some pre the start data. There's a pattern here, kind of corrosive. Yeah, You look at the creator economy. Yeah, the numbers are frankly shocking. They really are. Our sources point to black influencers getting paid, on average, about thirty five percent less than white influencers for comparable work. Thirty five percent. Just pause on that. If a white kid creator pulls in, say one hundred grand, the black creator doing the same campaign, same reach might only get sixty five thousand to huge gap. And that's not just pocket changes, about thirty five percent difference. It adds up. It pushes people down financially. It absolutely does. It means, according to the data, something like seventy seven percent of black creators end up stuck in the law. Lower income brackets of the industry is basically economic disenfranchisement baked right into the system. We're talking about wealth accumulation being systematically harder. Exactly. It's not just about visibility, it's about the money and then layer on top of that what our sources are calling cultural erasure. It's this pattern where black creators often spark the viral trend, the dances to slang. The architect shouted, Build the cool stuff, but then almost instantly you see it copy. Yeah, I've stripped of context, no credit given to take him and the sources are really clear on this. The money, the social capital that comes with that viral moment. It often flows to the the non - black creators who just jumped on the trend, like those micro dances or specific ways of talking online. Yeah, or even unique storytelling styles. It becomes appropriation, happening in real time, you know, be invented. It's paid less or not at all, while the replicators profit. It turns this space that should be about connection into, well, another engine for exploitation. So you get the economic drain, the cultural theft. And then there's the hostility, content, depression. This comes up again and again, Creator, Especially when they talk about race or social justice, or sometimes just their own lived experience, They find their stuff gets shadow banned, or just flat out removed. Much more often. It points towards algorithmic bias, doesn't it ? These systems. They're optimized for broad engagement, maybe, but they often lack nuance cultural contexts, so authentic expression gets flagged, and the results. For the creator, it sounds exhausting. It's immense emotional labor. You're constantly walking this tightrope, right ? Do I water down my experiences self censor just to stay visible ? Or do I speak my truth and risk getting silenced ? Losing my audience, maybe my income ? So these big platforms are basically asking users to navigate hostile territory, just to participate. Yeah, the fundamental takeaway from the why seems to be these platforms weren't built for the safety or prosperity of these communities. They were built to extract, attend ocean, and sometimes culture. And Black Bee emerges as a direct answer to that whole situation. Precisely which brings us to their response, Okay, let's unpack that response. Pillar One. They call it a cultural sanctuary. It sounds like it's all about engineering, safety and trust from the ground up. Because that trust is completely broken elsewhere, right ? That deficit is key. Man. Mainstream platforms often hide behind free speech arguments, which ends up providing cover for harassment, hate speech, exactly, and their moderation. Often huge global teams, but lacking deep cultural understanding. So a black user discusses a sensitive topic, maybe use a specific A AG and ban it gets flagged unfairly while actual hate speech flips through. It's a known problem too. How does Black B try to fix that ? Because building a truly safe online space feels almost impossible these days. Is this where the black art comes in ? Yes, this is probably their most distinctive feature, the black card certification. It's a deliberate break from the huge. We'll get everyone on board. Anonymity is fine model. I was at work to get full access all the features. The community aspects. Muses are actively encouraged to verify their identity as a black or Brown person. Okay, we encouraged or required and isn't asking people to verify based on race isn't that tricky territory and potentially exclusive. It's definitely where the friction is. The sorts of frame it very intentionally, though not as exclusion that has protection foundational protection council. The argument is you can't guarantee psychological safety in space if you don't know who's in the room. Essentially, Yeah, by adding this way or this, like digital neighborhood watch idea of the black Hurts system. Yeah, it AIM aims to proactively filter out trolls, bad faith actors, people who just don't get the cultural context and might cause harm, intentionally or not. So it's less like a public town square where anyone can say anything, and more like a protected, curated neighborhood. The priority shifts from more users at any cost, to the well being of the people already in thought. Okay, I see the logic. It's about prioritizing the internal community over just scaling numbers. Exactly. The stated goal is ensuring voices are uplifted, heard and understood, not accidentally or intentionally silenced. And crucially, it connects to the next pillar, ensuring the people sharing the economic benefits are actually from the community, generating the value that makes sense. It's a fundamentally different architectural priority. Safety first, but safety alone doesn't solve the economic issues we started with, right ? Psychological safety doesn't pay the rent. So let's talk tiller to collective economics. How does the Blueprint address that thirty five percent pay gap that economic diseno franchise ? This is where it moves from sanctuary to potentially an economic engine. Black Speed positions itself as the anti extractive model, the source of explicitly call it a revenue sharing media platform, revenue sharing, and even more directly, a profit sharing platform driven by your engagement. That's a direct quote. Okay, so that flips the script entirely. On most platforms, you are the product, right ? Your eyeballs, your data generate ad revenue for the company. But here the idea is, your activity, your engagement. It's framed as an investment into the collective platform, which then ideally returns value back to you precisely, And they're building the tools for that, right ? In Its are an afterthought into great commerce tools designed to keep capital circulating within the community, like what specifically, things like dedicated business pages, a marketplace to list actual items for sale, a skill section like a menu, LinkedIn to showcase professional services, and an offer feature for promotions. So it's trying to be a self - contained digital economy almost. That seems to be the goal, a place to connect, but also a place to transact within the community. And it's not just about selling things, right ? Right ? You mentioned engagement itself, being compensated. This beams system. Yeah, demons, GMU MTs. It's an internal currency. Basically earn them for participating, creating posts, constructive interactions, driving engagement, just using the platform constructively. And what can you do with them ? So they like monopoly money or no, the sources suggests, are meant to be a tangible asset. You can use them within Black sea, maybe to booster contents, visibility, or buy something from another member in the marketplace. Okay, and three mechanisms described in the sources this Henschel for them to eventually be redeemed for actual cash. Oh, okay. So posting a photo writing comment, It's not just feeding the algorithm for free. The idea is you're generating a micro asset, something you can potentially redeem later within that community ecosystem. That completely changes the incentive structure, doesn't it ? It really does gamify wise wealth retention. In a way it pushes the platform beyond just social network and towards being a framework for collective may be sustainable wealth building, controlled by the users themselves. Okay, so we have safety through curation and economics. Who's sharing and internal commerce, which the third pillar, authentic narrative power, right ? Because safety and money are vital. But what about the substance of the conversation ? This pillar is about getting away from the superficial stuff that algorithms often push that pressure towards clickbait sensationalism. Exactly. That's a major complaint in the sources about mainstream platforms, the algorithms tend to reward and I quote, an entertainment, violence, sex, and superficial content, which forces creators onto this treadmill, chasing fleeting trends. Yeah, sacrificing depth, authentic storytelling, just to stay relevant in the feed. So how does black speech try to encourage substance over sensation ? How do you fight the algorithms pull ? It seems to be again an architectural choice. They offer a wider range of content format signaling they value more than just short videos or images, like what users can create long - form articles, whose podcast published sessions of books, starting dedicated discussion forums called huddles, submit ideas, run polls. Wow. Okay, so the platform itself is built to handle more complex, deeper content. It should northern. We want more than just quick hits. We want to play for real knowledge sharing, meaningful story. It's not just what you can post, but what the platform seems to value precisely. And their mission statement reinforces this. It explicitly says, The goal is to publish stories that shatter negative stereotypes and misconceptions. That's a clear mandate, empowering content that educates, uplift, shipping the narrative power, moving away from just reacting to trends toward creating lasting substance. Okay, this all sounds ambitious, which leads to a really practical, maybe critical point. Independent sources, A Black SBE is unfunded founded by Detroit, Saint Pierre and Toronto Thomas, but no big VC backing. Yeah. And this is fascinating because that independence isn't free. User feedback noted in the sources, does mention the tradeoffs, but at performance issues, the kinds of things that often happen when you're operating without huge pools of cash, right ? So the user experience might be a bit rougher sometimes. Why wouldn't they chase VC money in tech that's usually seen as essential to scale to compete to fix those bugs ? Well, this is where the narrative gets really interesting. The sources frame that lack of traditional funding, not as a weakness, but as a deliberate strategic advantage. To call it a strategic mode of authenticity. A mode of authenticity explained that The argument goes like this, If you take large sums of venture capital, you're suddenly beholding to those investors, but you need to deliver massive returns. Yeah, exactly. And that pressure inevitably shapes product decisions. You have to maximize engagement, maximize growth, often at any cost. That can lead down the path of exploring any user data or promoting divisive content because it drives quick. Basically, the investors need for exponential return starts overwriting the original mission. Correct ? So, because Black Sea isn't tied to those external financial interests, it's direction can theoretically remain focused solely on community needs. It can keep that people first UFOs. They don't have to compromise their core values or safety principles just to use engagement numbers for a quarterly report. That's the idea. The financial constraint, the struggle to operate independently, which normally looks like a huge disadvantage, becomes the very thing that protects it's integrity. It shields the architecture and the ideology from external pressures that might corrupt it. That's. Wow. That's turning a negative into a core strategic, positive, weaponizing scarcity. Almost. It's a powerful tidbit. Yeah, so bringing this altogether, what ? What does this black speed blueprint mean for you ? The listener, thinking about your own digital life ? Well, it represents a really deliberate choice, prioritizing community health, safety, integrity, the over just massive scale and external profits. It's a counter narrative playing out in real time. And when the founders asked for community contributions, not just help keep the lights on. No, it's framed as an invitation. Invest in protecting this independent. Help us maintain the strategic milk. Which leaves us with a really interesting question that you want building on all when you're trying to create a digital space. It's truly centered on a specific community with a mission that isn't about extraction. Is avoiding traditional VC funding almost a necessity ? Could it be that the very financial struggle, the lack of easy access to that kind of capital is actually a unique, maybe even essential strategic, an asset for protecting the core mission. That's something to Mull over as we all think about who really builds and who really owns our digital futures. Okay, so if you're listening, you probably already noticed feeling we're all hyper - connected more than ever before. But well, from black and brown communities. That connection often comes with some serious downsides, marginalization. Yeah, it's a real paradox. And the sources we've looked at for this deep dive, a really hammer home this, ah, this urgent need for a digital space that feels genuinely safe, a place where you know your culture isn't just mine for trends. And maybe just maybe the person who starts something actually gets the credit for exactly. And that's what we're digging into today, this idea we're calling the Black Suit blueprint. It's not just, you know, another app trying to get users right, it seems considers a fundamental response to some pretty deep - seated systemic failures. It's like an architectural choice that puts principles, safety, empowerment ahead of just raw growth metrics. So our mission today for you listening, is to really understand this will kick things off by unpacking why something like black speed even needed to exist. We're talking about economic gaps, the social hostility on mainstream platforms. And then we'll dive into black species specific answer it structure, which seems built around these three core pillars, all designed to protect and well empowered community. Let's start with the why then, because the drives behind this. It's not just feelings. It's rooted in some pre the start data. There's a pattern here, kind of corrosive. Yeah, You look at the creator economy. Yeah, the numbers are frankly shocking. They really are. Our sources point to black influencers getting paid, on average, about thirty five percent less than white influencers for comparable work. Thirty five percent. Just pause on that. If a white kid creator pulls in, say one hundred grand, the black creator doing the same campaign, same reach might only get sixty five thousand to huge gap. And that's not just pocket changes, about thirty five percent difference. It adds up. It pushes people down financially. It absolutely does. It means, according to the data, something like seventy seven percent of black creators end up stuck in the law. Lower income brackets of the industry is basically economic disenfranchisement baked right into the system. We're talking about wealth accumulation being systematically harder. Exactly. It's not just about visibility, it's about the money and then layer on top of that what our sources are calling cultural erasure. It's this pattern where black creators often spark the viral trend, the dances to slang. The architect shouted, Build the cool stuff, but then almost instantly you see it copy. Yeah, I've stripped of context, no credit given to take him and the sources are really clear on this. The money, the social capital that comes with that viral moment. It often flows to the the non - black creators who just jumped on the trend, like those micro dances or specific ways of talking online. Yeah, or even unique storytelling styles. It becomes appropriation, happening in real time, you know, be invented. It's paid less or not at all, while the replicators profit. It turns this space that should be about connection into, well, another engine for exploitation. So you get the economic drain, the cultural theft. And then there's the hostility, content, depression. This comes up again and again, Creator, Especially when they talk about race or social justice, or sometimes just their own lived experience, They find their stuff gets shadow banned, or just flat out removed. Much more often. It points towards algorithmic bias, doesn't it ? These systems. They're optimized for broad engagement, maybe, but they often lack nuance cultural contexts, so authentic expression gets flagged, and the results. For the creator, it sounds exhausting. It's immense emotional labor. You're constantly walking this tightrope, right ? Do I water down my experiences self censor just to stay visible ? Or do I speak my truth and risk getting silenced ? Losing my audience, maybe my income ? So these big platforms are basically asking users to navigate hostile territory, just to participate. Yeah, the fundamental takeaway from the why seems to be these platforms weren't built for the safety or prosperity of these communities. They were built to extract, attend ocean, and sometimes culture. And Black Bee emerges as a direct answer to that whole situation. Precisely which brings us to their response, Okay, let's unpack that response. Pillar One. They call it a cultural sanctuary. It sounds like it's all about engineering, safety and trust from the ground up. Because that trust is completely broken elsewhere, right ? That deficit is key. Man. Mainstream platforms often hide behind free speech arguments, which ends up providing cover for harassment, hate speech, exactly, and their moderation. Often huge global teams, but lacking deep cultural understanding. So a black user discusses a sensitive topic, maybe use a specific A AG and ban it gets flagged unfairly while actual hate speech flips through. It's a known problem too. How does Black B try to fix that ? Because building a truly safe online space feels almost impossible these days. Is this where the black art comes in ? Yes, this is probably their most distinctive feature, the black card certification. It's a deliberate break from the huge. We'll get everyone on board. Anonymity is fine model. I was at work to get full access all the features. The community aspects. Muses are actively encouraged to verify their identity as a black or Brown person. Okay, we encouraged or required and isn't asking people to verify based on race isn't that tricky territory and potentially exclusive. It's definitely where the friction is. The sorts of frame it very intentionally, though not as exclusion that has protection foundational protection council. The argument is you can't guarantee psychological safety in space if you don't know who's in the room. Essentially, Yeah, by adding this way or this, like digital neighborhood watch idea of the black Hurts system. Yeah, it AIM aims to proactively filter out trolls, bad faith actors, people who just don't get the cultural context and might cause harm, intentionally or not. So it's less like a public town square where anyone can say anything, and more like a protected, curated neighborhood. The priority shifts from more users at any cost, to the well being of the people already in thought. Okay, I see the logic. It's about prioritizing the internal community over just scaling numbers. Exactly. The stated goal is ensuring voices are uplifted, heard and understood, not accidentally or intentionally silenced. And crucially, it connects to the next pillar, ensuring the people sharing the economic benefits are actually from the community, generating the value that makes sense. It's a fundamentally different architectural priority. Safety first, but safety alone doesn't solve the economic issues we started with, right ? Psychological safety doesn't pay the rent. So let's talk tiller to collective economics. How does the Blueprint address that thirty five percent pay gap that economic diseno franchise ? This is where it moves from sanctuary to potentially an economic engine. Black Speed positions itself as the anti extractive model, the source of explicitly call it a revenue sharing media platform, revenue sharing, and even more directly, a profit sharing platform driven by your engagement. That's a direct quote. Okay, so that flips the script entirely. On most platforms, you are the product, right ? Your eyeballs, your data generate ad revenue for the company. But here the idea is, your activity, your engagement. It's framed as an investment into the collective platform, which then ideally returns value back to you precisely, And they're building the tools for that, right ? In Its are an afterthought into great commerce tools designed to keep capital circulating within the community, like what specifically, things like dedicated business pages, a marketplace to list actual items for sale, a skill section like a menu, LinkedIn to showcase professional services, and an offer feature for promotions. So it's trying to be a self - contained digital economy almost. That seems to be the goal, a place to connect, but also a place to transact within the community. And it's not just about selling things, right ? Right ? You mentioned engagement itself, being compensated. This beams system. Yeah, demons, GMU MTs. It's an internal currency. Basically earn them for participating, creating posts, constructive interactions, driving engagement, just using the platform constructively. And what can you do with them ? So they like monopoly money or no, the sources suggests, are meant to be a tangible asset. You can use them within Black sea, maybe to booster contents, visibility, or buy something from another member in the marketplace. Okay, and three mechanisms described in the sources this Henschel for them to eventually be redeemed for actual cash. Oh, okay. So posting a photo writing comment, It's not just feeding the algorithm for free. The idea is you're generating a micro asset, something you can potentially redeem later within that community ecosystem. That completely changes the incentive structure, doesn't it ? It really does gamify wise wealth retention. In a way it pushes the platform beyond just social network and towards being a framework for collective may be sustainable wealth building, controlled by the users themselves. Okay, so we have safety through curation and economics. Who's sharing and internal commerce, which the third pillar, authentic narrative power, right ? Because safety and money are vital. But what about the substance of the conversation ? This pillar is about getting away from the superficial stuff that algorithms often push that pressure towards clickbait sensationalism. Exactly. That's a major complaint in the sources about mainstream platforms, the algorithms tend to reward and I quote, an entertainment, violence, sex, and superficial content, which forces creators onto this treadmill, chasing fleeting trends. Yeah, sacrificing depth, authentic storytelling, just to stay relevant in the feed. So how does black speech try to encourage substance over sensation ? How do you fight the algorithms pull ? It seems to be again an architectural choice. They offer a wider range of content format signaling they value more than just short videos or images, like what users can create long - form articles, whose podcast published sessions of books, starting dedicated discussion forums called huddles, submit ideas, run polls. Wow. Okay, so the platform itself is built to handle more complex, deeper content. It should northern. We want more than just quick hits. We want to play for real knowledge sharing, meaningful story. It's not just what you can post, but what the platform seems to value precisely. And their mission statement reinforces this. It explicitly says, The goal is to publish stories that shatter negative stereotypes and misconceptions. That's a clear mandate, empowering content that educates, uplift, shipping the narrative power, moving away from just reacting to trends toward creating lasting substance. Okay, this all sounds ambitious, which leads to a really practical, maybe critical point. Independent sources, A Black SBE is unfunded founded by Detroit, Saint Pierre and Toronto Thomas, but no big VC backing. Yeah. And this is fascinating because that independence isn't free. User feedback noted in the sources, does mention the tradeoffs, but at performance issues, the kinds of things that often happen when you're operating without huge pools of cash, right ? So the user experience might be a bit rougher sometimes. Why wouldn't they chase VC money in tech that's usually seen as essential to scale to compete to fix those bugs ? Well, this is where the narrative gets really interesting. The sources frame that lack of traditional funding, not as a weakness, but as a deliberate strategic advantage. To call it a strategic mode of authenticity. A mode of authenticity explained that The argument goes like this, If you take large sums of venture capital, you're suddenly beholding to those investors, but you need to deliver massive returns. Yeah, exactly. And that pressure inevitably shapes product decisions. You have to maximize engagement, maximize growth, often at any cost. That can lead down the path of exploring any user data or promoting divisive content because it drives quick. Basically, the investors need for exponential return starts overwriting the original mission. Correct ? So, because Black Sea isn't tied to those external financial interests, it's direction can theoretically remain focused solely on community needs. It can keep that people first UFOs. They don't have to compromise their core values or safety principles just to use engagement numbers for a quarterly report. That's the idea. The financial constraint, the struggle to operate independently, which normally looks like a huge disadvantage, becomes the very thing that protects it's integrity. It shields the architecture and the ideology from external pressures that might corrupt it. That's. Wow. That's turning a negative into a core strategic, positive, weaponizing scarcity. Almost. It's a powerful tidbit. Yeah, so bringing this altogether, what ? What does this black speed blueprint mean for you ? The listener, thinking about your own digital life ? Well, it represents a really deliberate choice, prioritizing community health, safety, integrity, the over just massive scale and external profits. It's a counter narrative playing out in real time. And when the founders asked for community contributions, not just help keep the lights on. No, it's framed as an invitation. Invest in protecting this independent. Help us maintain the strategic milk. Which leaves us with a really interesting question that you want building on all when you're trying to create a digital space. It's truly centered on a specific community with a mission that isn't about extraction. Is avoiding traditional VC funding almost a necessity ? Could it be that the very financial struggle, the lack of easy access to that kind of capital is actually a unique, maybe even essential strategic, an asset for protecting the core mission. That's something to Mull over as we all think about who really builds and who really owns our digital futures.