It's all been a lot of smoke and mirrors for ages now. There's nothing really that can prop up an empty ecosystem of encouraging people to work furiously for no

It's all been a lot of smoke and mirrors for ages now. There's nothing really that can prop up an empty ecosystem of encouraging people to work furiously for no reward or payout while only scammers and the rich win... The platforms have been allowing their own employees and leveraging bots and contracted employees as fake "winning" accounts/influencers while deeply manipulating genuine (unaffiliated) users to pay for visibility through making them buy ads to profit and/or look successful... Even sites that aren't really considered as social media, like YouTube and reddit, are guilty of these practices.