You have to figure that there's a standing population of subculture participants, that represent a feedback loop of engrossed imitators, all incestuously following each other, and backslapping the whole way. Gadflies keeping up with the Joneses. Famous for being famous.
It's sort of like artificial trading volume in a niche crypto currency network. A handful of miners mint 30 million coins, then create a couple of hundred sock puppet wallets, to create a closed loop of transactions between, this way it always looks like there are people using the coin, and the system doesn't seem like a ghost town. As spectators and wall flowers show up, jaws drop at the occasional whopper trade between two "anonymous" users, which is actually meaningless, because it was really just one guy moving a million worthless tokens from one address to another, both of which he controls.
So too with having 50K followers. When they're all just bots and pros, keeping an eye on the competition, what's that actually worth?
You have to figure that there's a standing population of subculture participants, that represent a feedback loop of engrossed imitators, all incestuously following each other, and backslapping the whole way. Gadflies keeping up with the Joneses. Famous for being famous.
It's sort of like artificial trading volume in a niche crypto currency network. A handful of miners mint 30 million coins, then create a couple of hundred sock puppet wallets, to create a closed loop of transactions between, this way it always looks like there are people using the coin, and the system doesn't seem like a ghost town. As spectators and wall flowers show up, jaws drop at the occasional whopper trade between two "anonymous" users, which is actually meaningless, because it was really just one guy moving a million worthless tokens from one address to another, both of which he controls.
So too with having 50K followers. When they're all just bots and pros, keeping an eye on the competition, what's that actually worth?
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