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Their wordsThe thing I'm always trying to get people to see is that not all views or viewers are equal.
Their words1 follow or view from the right person is worth 10,000 casual randos, maybe 100k.
Their wordsalso, the flattening of metrics and the lurid quality of metric-gamers means that many people are inclined to assume that any person looking to "grow an audience" etc is metric-gaming.
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