Anecdata, but when starting a web forum years and years ago, I had to post regularly as a dozen sock puppet users to kick start it. Nobody wants to be the first, and 99 percent of people just lurk.
Also, YT recommended this video: https://youtu.be/SA7bKo4HRTg
It might be the best 5 minutes of your day
The YouTube video title is "Funniest Leadership Speech ever!"
It's a little humerous, but I didn't hear anything about leadership - the word was never even said by the speaker! The speaker ended by saying "…and that's where I learned where I'm from." So yeah... not about leadership at all. Decent speech, but bad YouTube title. There wasn't any lessons or anything, just a story about the guy when he was a kid.
the first sentence of his speech starts off with "when you think of leadership" lol