The payouts aren’t based purely on numbers though, plenty have whinged that they get more impressions than others and had lower payouts.

Xitter is putting their thumb on the scales to incentivise the content they want on the platform, perhaps you’ve just fallen into the shit tier of content in their eyes?

Either way the whole incentive structure there is fukt now; they’re encouraging meme theft, clickbait threads, and corpo-friendly garbage and the blue checks will race to the bottom to get theirs. Will be fun to watch!