{"id":3980,"date":"2022-04-10T02:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2022-04-10T02:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T02:14:20","slug":"meaningless-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/04\/meaningless-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningless numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2022\/anitta-fans-spotify-brazil-global-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LMAO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Adriano Ferreira da Silva Filho, a 19-year-old fan from Ilhabela, a beach town in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, told Rest of World that he wanted to boost \u201cEnvolver\u201d\u2019s popularity as a means of paying back an artist who was influential in his life. So, Filho created a series of different playlists to play the song over 2,000 times a day using his laptop and two cellphones to be able to have them all playing simultaneously from different usernames. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf you only play the track on repeat, Spotify doesn\u2019t count it as a stream,\u201d Filho explained. \u201cThey think it\u2019s a bot. So, you have to create a playlist with different tracks and alternate them with the one you want to boost.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All numbers on platforms are fake or fake-ish. Number of followers, likes, plays, views? All fake. Database 0s and 1s that can be edited however one is pleased. All those numbers are gamed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen someone with half a million followers on Twitter get 3 RTs in four hours. For something about her business. That makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers have zero value, are constantly manipulated and far too many people OBSESS about them.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re obsessing about the void, a black box designed for retention, dear. No status here. Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LMAO Adriano Ferreira da Silva Filho, a 19-year-old fan from Ilhabela, a beach town in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, told Rest of World that he wanted to boost \u201cEnvolver\u201d\u2019s popularity as a means of paying back an artist who was influential in his life. So, Filho created a series of different playlists to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}