There's an interesting symmetry in it.

Short form content and memes on social media only require a short little span of attention and time, so people like them... but after (also!) a relatively short time, seeing the same clever remarks, jokes and memes over and over again starts to become really boring, and (most) people go in search of something with a little more "substance," like blogs and actual articles.

Steemit definitely has the potential to become a repository of real human based information that goes into a lot more detail than just a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down."

I'm bullish on Steemit/Steem because it supports the telling and sharing of human stories.