‘Views’ are lies

Social and entertainment platforms have all settled on “views” as their primary metric. But they all disagree on how to count, and nobody counts correctly.

The Verge
@verge been saying this for years. Then usually people that stay on toxic social media platforms revert to “my follower count” where they have thousands of “followers” most are fake accounts or dead accounts. Then point out their couple of real engagement they get. Then the cycle starts again