How many "influencers" exist with more than a million followers on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram? I'm afraid the number might be unfathomably huge and growing at fast pace.
Who consumes so much "content" though?
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Bots.
It's all fake. Dead Internet.
Where is the money coming from then?
Advertisers thinking they are getting lots of exposure?
In digital advertising you stop spending the minute you see the traffic ain't good.
Im being hyperboli, im sure there's A LOT of mindless consumers but there's almost no way it isn't also filled with fake bots metric like the spotify thing. The money flowed to him even tho it was fake. (Until he go caught)
But idk.
USAID, chinese Big Techs, mega corporations advertisements, Chines PCC, etc etc.
There is no cost to subcriptions or follows. This means the is no cost to sybil those numbers up.
They are just whores to the advertisers, and most of them I feel sorry for, schilling someone else’s product for penny’s per view.
I’m always staggered by the scale of it myself.
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a lot. a loootttt. brain rotted people consume their content.
logically the scale of the numbers is artificial, but the scheme allows them to live off it.
It's actual people. You'd be amazed by how many ppl exist and spend time watching stuff. It's today's soma.
It's not advertisers blindly buying ads for exposure. They do it because it works.
There is a portion that indeed is ai and fake traffic, but the majority is the result of modernity and escapism.
Well yes, true - but the trouble is that a lot of it is still just noise. 😂
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