• nocages [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Yes, I understand that. What I am trying to say is that they are dismissing the song’s impact as if every view was from a bot, when they are not. Real people are listening to and talking about it.

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      Who’s saying that? Yeah, there’s no doubt people are listening to the song, but c’mon 9.5 million views in 5 days? I’m sorry, most of those views are 100 percent astroturfed.

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        You just did, now. I’m saying that we know that not all of those are bot views simply because of the number of people talking about the song, and we shouldn’t dismiss its impact because it is absolutely having an impact.