How MIAU compares
Anyone choosing between creator platforms is really deciding seven things. This page states where MIAU lands on each one. Every answer describes the platform as it works today on miausocial.com.
| The axis | Where MIAU lands |
|---|---|
| Can fans discover you? | Open, swipeable discovery feed, browsable with no account |
| Is the front door open? | Yes. Anyone can browse with no account. Verification fires at the moment of purchase, where the law requires it |
| Does search work? | Semantic search across creators and clips, logged out, tolerant of typos |
| What do you keep? | 88%, falling to 93% through the referral program |
| Who is allowed to publish? | Identity-verified humans only. Government ID plus face match |
| What does the AI do for you? | Reads, tags and rates every upload, then coaches you on your own numbers |
| How do you get paid? | Priced in dollars, paid in stable value to your own wallet |
Can fans discover you?
Section titled “Can fans discover you?”This is the axis the category has never solved. Fan platforms are built as billing pages: they are excellent at charging a fan who already arrived with a link, and they do almost nothing to hand a creator an audience. The largest fan platform is the clearest case. It has no discovery feed, and an entire paid industry exists just to find creators on it.
MIAU is built the other way around. The discovery feed is the home page. It is open, swipeable, and browsable by anyone with no account. Every discovery post is a front door: tapping one opens the creator’s profile and their paid content right there, with nothing to hunt for in between.
Is the front door open?
Section titled “Is the front door open?”MIAU is the only platform in the world granted permission to run a free, open discovery feed in front of paid creator content, with nothing standing between a visitor and the feed.
This matters for reach, not for principle. A closed front door stops link previews from rendering, blocks the platform from ordinary social distribution, and is by itself enough to stop a large creator from ever joining. MIAU has the distribution architecture of an open social app and the monetization of a fan platform, and that combination is the whole point.
It works because of screening, not permissiveness. Every upload is rated by the AI before it can appear anywhere. Only content rated clean reaches the open feed. Everything else lives behind the creator’s paywall, and where the law requires it, age verification fires at the moment of purchase. See Trust & Safety.
Does search work?
Section titled “Does search work?”On MIAU, a fan can type a vague phrase, a single word, or a typo, and get the right creators and the right clips back. It understands meaning, not just keywords. It runs across the whole platform, and it works logged out.
That is possible because MIAU reads its own content. Every upload is broken into scenes, described, transcribed, tagged and filed automatically, so a creator’s whole library becomes findable without a single manual tag. See How MIAU works.
What do you keep?
Section titled “What do you keep?”Fan platforms have converged on taking 20%. MIAU takes 12%, and the fee steps down to 7% through the referral program, which puts a creator at 93%.
| Active verified referrals | Platform fee | Creator keeps |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 12% | 88% |
| 8 | 10% | 90% |
| 16 | 8% | 92% |
| 20 | 7% | 93% |
Full detail on Creator earnings.
Who is allowed to publish?
Section titled “Who is allowed to publish?”Every creator on MIAU passes government ID plus face match before they can publish or earn. There are no AI profiles. A fan paying a creator on MIAU is paying a real, accountable person, and a creator posting on MIAU is not competing against synthetic accounts for the same attention.
What does the AI do for you?
Section titled “What does the AI do for you?”Every major AI vendor refuses to process the content creators actually post, so nobody in this category can simply buy content understanding off the shelf. That is the wall.
MIAU built the layer itself: eleven screening and understanding passes on every upload, running on MIAU’s own infrastructure. That single pipeline is what produces the content ratings that keep the front door open, the search that finds an exact clip, the automatic tags that mean no creator does SEO busywork, and MIAU AI, the coach inside Creator Studio that answers from a creator’s own numbers and their own catalog. See The AI inside MIAU.
How do you get paid?
Section titled “How do you get paid?”Everything is priced in dollars, so nothing a fan pays or a creator earns moves with a market. Earnings clear after a short hold and pay out on a regular schedule, in stable value, to the creator’s own wallet.
At checkout today: crypto, priced in dollars. Card payments are approved and go live with the official platform launch in October.
$MIAU, the platform’s utility token, never sits in the payment path. Even if the token went to zero, every creator would still be paid in full. See the Litepaper.
The honest summary
Section titled “The honest summary”Fan platforms solved billing and never solved distribution. Social platforms solved distribution and never solved billing. MIAU is the one that does both, and the reason it can is the content-understanding layer underneath, which is also the reason its fee is lower.
What is next is on the Roadmap.