Ask the world a question. The community answers on camera.
The community side of what Maceo has been filming since 2021. Anyone with a camera and a real question can add to the archive. Bounties put money on the question, someone takes it to the street, and the winning tape becomes part of the record.
Where this comes from.
Maceo has been filming the people who build on and use crypto, on their own streets, since 2021. Founders who move between countries, engineers who write the protocols and, especially, people of African descent working on new money systems: who issues the money, who can use it, and who pays for the plumbing.
Years of research, travel, and tape across the USA, Europe, Asia, and Africa. That archive is the seed.
Where it goes next.
#QueryTheWorld makes the archive participatory. We publish bounties for specific questions we want the world to answer. Anyone can claim a bounty, ship a piece from wherever they live, and get paid in crypto that does not stop at borders.
If the work meets the standards, it runs under your name. If it moves the record forward, it becomes part of the We Them Media catalog.
Post a bounty
A question worth answering. Attach money to it (crypto, transparent pot on poidh).
Claim it
Live where the story is. Turn on a camera. Ask the question in your own voice.
Ship it
Drop the piece in the Telegram. Winning submissions get paid from the pot and run on the We Them Media channel with your name on it.
Become the network
Strong submissions get a real conversation about joining as a paid regional contributor for We Them Media.
Questions for the network get worked out there before they go on the board. If you have one, that is the fastest way to raise it.
Inflation, and the One Question. A partnership with poidh and Kenny. The pot starts at $5 and anyone can add to it. Any camera, any city. One winner drawn by hand from the eligible entries. Closes Wednesday, October 28.
The first #QueryTheWorld campaign. $560 raised. Twenty-three backers. Eleven pieces shot in Philadelphia on Bitcoin Pizza Day 2026 by Maceo with Benny and Estaban (Temple University), plus submissions from around the world. Winner: Lorah, Abuja. Details drop in the Telegram first.
Pieces coming from Marissa and Kafani. Contributors extending the archive from their own streets in Arkansas and Lagos.
Have a question worth answering? Contact us and we will help you scope a bounty, attach a pot, and route it through the network.
Money that does not stop at borders.
Traditional media cannot pay a contributor in Lagos or Nairobi with a Venmo. Crypto lets us pay anyone with a wallet, in any country, with no bank in between and nobody to ask for permission. That is what makes cross-cultural street interviews financially possible.
Public pots. Public payouts.
Every bounty runs on poidh with the pot visible onchain. Anyone can see who backed the question and what the contributor got paid. Nothing about the money has to be taken on trust.
Query the world.
This is one project inside We Them Media. The videos Maceo and the team drop are the other side. Both come from one idea, that media should be made by a community and kept by the community it comes from.
8 supporters at $178 a month pay for this work, on the way to $1,000 a month. 34 of 150 street interviews are in for One Question, which closes Wed 4 November.