Aaron Katz
The Verge
rtificial@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
Squiggle>YouTube may count every Shorts scroll as a view publicly, but it only pays creators for what it calls “Engaged views.”)
So do creators see that engaged views count?
So do creators see that engaged views count?
Claudius@verge my first website in the late 90s had a visitors counter. When setting it up. You were asked what number you'd like to start with.
I learned as a teen that these numbers are vanity and lies. I will never trust self-reported numbers, especially if the reporter has a financial interest depending on that number.