Introduction

We have loved being on Hive, we started around February properly and found it all quite confusing, we still do. We came here to promote our music and engage with people and to be honest that is exactly what we found. We have been blessed to find a level of engagement that we have not been able to find on any other social media platform.

I am not sure why this is but sometimes it feels like Hive is a secret little club where people stick together and support each other. Yes they argue sometimes....when you are adding money into the equation that will happen. We are lucky we did not come here for the "rewards" although they are nice but not our motivation. I wanted to do a post to highlight and celebrate some of the amazing engagement , collaboration and support we have had since we have come to Hive.

For those of you who don't know us we are an anonymous musical production unit who also make videos and conceptual underground art. I am not sure how many Stick Up Boys there are, but around 10 seems about right. You can find more of our music and videos here: https://linktr.ee/StickUpBoys

I now want to highlight some of the wonderful things that have happened to us since we joined Hive and I hope you can celebrate with us. Some of the things I want to highlight people have done for us and some of the thing other people have inspired us to do!

Hive Pizza

I need to start with Hive Pizza as they are all lovely and the discord is a joy to be in. Positive, creative, fun and friendly. @thebeardflex and @huzzah make it like this and their energy is contagious. $PIZZA token is one of the best and functional tokens on Hive. it is an engagement token as well as many other things like being able to buy games for Steam in their store or earn VFT in the VFT lab. They also do many other things to help people engage with Hive and if you don't know much about them I would recommend you get involved. Their website https://hive.pizza/ and a little bit more about them here https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@thebeardflex/usdpizza-token-or-what-is-it-and-why-should-you-buy-it

This is a place I have made lots of lovely connections (as well as playing a few computer games) it is also the place that inspired us to make more Gifs that is something we have been doing since we joined hive and we have now made some Gifs for them as well as for Beardflex and Huzzah as our way of saying thank you!

They also have some wonderful programming and techy things going on like the Hive extension you can add to your browser, amazing discord bots and a learn code section. You can find out more from the talented @hivetrending or at https://peakd.com/@learncode. I would also recommend you joining in their discord and getting to know everyone there as it is a cool growing community. The discord invite is here https://www.discord.gg/3UEWVDdZ5G

Rising Star

This is an amazing game and an amazing community of musicians. I mean how much more engagement can we have as musicians than to have our music in a game as well as be a legendary card. We felt so excited this month and honoured to be part of an amazing game. If you have not bought our records on there, then you should. If you have not started playing it then why not!

You can play the game here https://www.risingstargame.com/game.asp and thank you so much for all you do @risingstargame2 @risingstar2

Getting made in silver!

I mean engagement levels have been so good that @monsterjamgold offered to hand cast our logo in solid silver... https://peakd.com/hive-136819/@monsterjamgold/silver-casting-a-cool-pendant-for-the-stickup-boys

Getting made in wood

And the amazing @dibblers.dabs even asked to make wooden key chains of our logo which you can buy in his store https://hivelist.store/sell-on-hivelist/

Getting talked about

We met @battleaxe on @proofofbrain discord and liked her attitude so we made her some gifs... she then wrote a post about us which was so lovely https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@battleaxe/stick-em-up-the-saga-of-the-stick-up-boys

This week @hili sent me some fan art which was incredible work https://peakd.com/hive-195370/@hili/fanart-stick-up-boys-and-resulter-of-the-giveway-eng-or-esp

@efastromberg94 also wrote a lovely piece about us https://peakd.com/hive-175836/@efastromberg94/review-stick-up-boys and is a fun Minecraft player!

Getting played on the radio

We met @tygertyger through the EMA and love her art work and radio show she does with @d-vine the @one.tribe.radio it is an amazing show every Saturday with some great musicians and interviews on as well as competition - thank you both so much for having us on their twice now and for the amazing art!

We have also been lucky to be part of @music4life and recently @whoismyhero started a radio show there which you can find imbedded on the site, morning mate! https://www.musicforlife.io/trending

Also we are privileged to be on @atomcollector records show "Radio Evolved" which is on 8pm every Sunday and is a Gif fest of brilliant music! Led by @jux and the Rising Star team and you can win lots of nice Rising Star things there! Check out their youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRphC5tZvR3lalzJEm9sGkw

Conclusion

This is just a few highlights of the engagement we have had since we have been here and I am sorry if I missed anyone out! There are lots of other comments and conversations that we have had as well as being inspired by others. If you want to use our ever growing gif collection please do https://giphy.com/stickupmusic we are always happy to hear ideas for new ones!

So overall our journey on Hive has been amazing. Most of the people have been incredibly helpful and friendly. We feel blessed that we came here and have been so inspired. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with us and made a connection. Hive for us has been a source of inspiration and long may that continue.

Big up the Hive

the Stick Up Boys
https://linktr.ee/StickUpBoys